ok.. let's move on - bye bye HD-DVD

Maybe if I seriously considered it technically the same or in some ways superior to Blu-ray then I can understand its existence... but what a waste of time. Let's move on with it. Don't bother with any posts as to why it was good.... good riddance. Ok, if it helped drive the cost of Blu-ray players down a bit... sure. I'll give it that. Was going to eventually get a PS3 anyway.

Toshiba delivers its Betamax address by ZDNet's Larry Dignan -- Toshiba officially dropped its plans for HD DVD Tuesday after Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Netflix and a parade of others abandoned the high-definition video format for Sony’s Blu-ray. The statement indicates the obvious–HD DVD was doomed. The writing on the wall has been there for a while with the wheels really beginning to fall off the wagon [...]