The war was really over at CES in January. Toshiba, MS, and Universal had nothing.. While BD had a lot of announcements.
To me that was the real ‘end’ of the war as a real matter.
Yep,
There was also a LOT of stuff behind the scenes for BD as well, that most consumers didn’t know and such. Bayer etc which provides the raw materials to make optical disks was vested in BD as well as other suppliers etc, and were expanding their investments there.
Long before the US public was really even paying attention the BD format had already shown it was well on the way to victory in Europe etc.
What happened in the US wasn’t even a format war, it was a last ditched effort to try to have one. Fortunately the US for the most part sat out this war, while it played out in Europe.
By the time anyone in the US was paying attention, BD was already clearly winning EURO and that was before the PS3 even was a factor.