The format war is over as far as I am concerned. HD-DVD has won without firing a shot.
Why? (I hear you ask) -
Sony have failed to learn from history and have banned Porn from their disk format. Duplicators are being prohibited from copying pron onto the disks by Sony Link.
History has proven (at least twice) that where the adult industry goes becomes a dominant format. VHS won the tape war (again over Sony’s technically superior Betamax) because in no small part the porn industry saw commercial advantage to using cheaply duplicated and uncontrolled VHS and the proliferation of the internet has been driven by the money generated by online Porn.
So I official declare the war over. Lets hope Apple reconsider their adoption of the Blu-Ray format and go with the wise money. Now someone has to tell Sony to put the loser out of it misery.