Eddie speaks what few of us are unwilling to talk about, that behind the scenes "Sony" is in fact the true "sith" of this format war. We know Sony created BDA, but everyone knows BD is Sony's "license" baby. If the DVD consortium approved BD rather than HD-DVD, BD may have been "perceived" differently. But Sony worked around the DVD group and created their own group, obviously to push the BD format.

What's at stake here is millions/billions of licensing money going into Sony's hands in the future. I think that future, to the minds of some people, is downright scary. Especially since Sony "owns" movie studios. We all agree that the harder DRM (BD+) is going to make it harder to allow "fair use" for disc backups, or legally storing the movie on your hard drive, or using BD on linux OS.

Eventually Dual format players are still the best way to go. Problem now is the technology for dual format is not mature, and priced too high. Give it a few years folks, let the dust settle a few years and when teh prices for HD media is DVD level, it'll be a better deal.