"I think I'll stick with optical media for another 10-15 years"

Just like people are sticking with CDs?

"I can't wait to say goodbye to the nineties"

90s? Spinning optical discs are a 1960s technology that should be ditched ASAP.

HD-DVD has been outselling Blu-Ray on Amazon.com and Amazon.de for the last week.

After a peak 3 weeks ago, Blu-Ray sales are falling.

So what's this 90%+ market share bull?

I bet Michael Bay will claim Tansformers looks better on Blu-Ray, even though it will have a bit-for-bit identical AVC encode to the HD-DVD.

What the idiots at Engadget don't realise is that the EP30 has been outselling all Blu-Ray standalone's on Play.Com (where image came from) for months and is still doing so. Same thing on Amazon UK.

It's been selling out and coming back into stock many times and if they could order more they would... It's selling more than regular DVD players.

Even the BDA technical committee wanted to use HDi instead of Java.

Then some "suits" over-ruled them just because Microsoft developed it.

http://www.videobusiness.com/article/CA6281492.html

So better formats always win?

Err... VHS???

...and LG are not dropping HD-DVD:

http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news/news.phtml/12929/13953/lg-back-hddvd-disc-players.phtml

LG not dumping HD DVD

In a strange move, LG has said it will continue to back, develop and offer HD DVD players.

LG has issued a statement to Pocket-lint following the announcement this morning that Toshiba was stopping support for the HD DVD format.

"LG believes that at this present moment in time, it is necessary to provide a player which supports both formats and therefore create simplicity and convenience for the existing HDDVD consumer."

LG, who currently offer a dual machine capable of playing both HD DVD and Blu-ray discs isn't dumping the format straight away.

Daniel Aziz, marketing manager for LG Electronics told us:

"With the recent announcement from Toshiba, Blu-Ray will now be the format that will pave the way for high definition movies, however this does not rule out HDDVD immediately as there are still a number of consumers who have chosen HDDVD and begun to build a HDDVD collection."

Before going on to say that "The previous confusion in the high definition market (HDDVD v Blu-ray) is now clearer and LG welcomes this as it will provide confidence for the end user, to the retailers and overall the home entertainment market."

"Overall LG is still excited about the future of this market, LG has always set out to lead high definition players and will continue to do so with more technology evolutions and hybrids which will launch in due course."

Toshiba might be dumping the format, but it appears LG is still very much a firm believer

ProfWho takes c*ck from behind.

"HD-DVD is getting its ass handed to it in Asia"

So Asia = Japan? Do you even know what Asia means? It includes India and China, so Blu-Ray market share is 0.00000000000000001% overall.

Blu-Ray is getting its ass handed to it by VideoCD in Asia.