[ChemicalWarrior]

Blong, you've done nothing but prove yourself clueless.

With lines like this" "I must have missed this. Did you even read my first post?????? Blue ray has higher sales because people are getting like 5 free Blue ray movies with every ps3 purchase."

You do nothing but make yourself look ignorant. I'm sorry, but you do not get 5 free Blu-Ray movies with every PS3. Even if you did, it counts as penetration, which is very important. Toshiba themselves subsidized the initial cost of their HD DVD player in order to be cheaper than first generation Blu-Ray players. Its a common tactic used in markets where most of the money is made on software, not hardware.... consoles are a great example.

You know the top three market winners for movie studios have been? Disney, Sony, and Fox. All three exclusive to Blu-Ray. Then there's Warner Bros who is supporting both formats. While your love for Universal is odd to say the least, they are clearly not producing movies that are as popular as the top three, which again solely support Blu-Ray.

Then you once again prove just how poorly informed about the entire situation. Sorry, but VC1 is not an HD DVD exclusive codec, instead it is usable on both platforms. AVC/H.264 is on both formats, MPEG2 was used on early Blu-Rays due to a transfer in mastering techniques, it was cheaper but already this is being changed which makes it a rather useless arguing point other than bit rate. Which again is where Blu-Rays REQUIRED player transfer speed advantage will happen them in the future.

You are also uninformed with consoles. Sony and Microsoft both report units shipped. That's what it reads in the documentation on press releases, units shipped. Same as Microsoft, same as Nintendo, etc etc. That's the only truly reliable statistic that they can report. European launch for the PS3 is the 23rd of this month. Also, Microsoft used similar pricing tactics in Europe as Sony is. Sony also has a much deeper hold in Europe than US, its doubtful they will lose as much ground in Europe as they have in NA.

Finally, your fanboy like obsession with Universal will not save HD DVD. I am sorry, its one studio, one against larger studios of more number at that.