“If it’s a format war there’s an ability to bet wrong. Because it’s not just about the TVs it’s about the peripherals. Get the format that loses and then when you need a new bluray you’re up the creek. In other words: the article is full of crap.”
Did you actually read the article?
Enough to know they didn’t bother to learn a damn thing from previous format wars. They’re big argument is that it would be easy for manufacturers to support more than one format. Which sounds great on paper, but in practice is horse crap because supporting multiple formats is a pain and nobody wants to do it if they don’t have to. And they’ll make sure there’s one winner so they don’t have to. They even admit it in the final paragraph, right after they mention that Samsung is refusing to support multiple formats.