[untrained skeptic]

Congratulations to your hometown.

Blu-Ray is the superior technology, at least if they have been able to increase yields on disk manufacturing which I believe had been considerably lower than for HD DVD disks at one time.

I'm still a bit surprised that HD DVD is just going away. I would have expected players that played both formats would have become common first and then have the one format die out.

I guess that implementing both in the same player was more difficult than I thought it would be.

[Paleo Conservative]

I'm still a bit surprised that HD DVD is just going away. I would have expected players that played both formats would have become common first and then have the one format die out.

Actually there are some dual format players, but they are Blu-ray drives that can also read HDDVD disks. It's physically impossible to read a Blu-ray disk with the red lasers used by HDDVD drives. It wouldn't surprise me if some Blu-ray drive manufacturers include read only compatibilty with HDDVD in future products the way CD-ROM, and DVD-RAM, and DVD±R are already.

Here's a link to a previous post I made on the subject.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1971098/posts?page=2#2