acroyear | a rare moment - 2 2/3 years ago, I predicted the future...

Dude! Joe's Jottings, Mostly Junk - And the winner is...:

So keep an eye on the studios or the retailers, because the independent device makers are going to make stuff that supports both and to hell with the jerks who can't make a fucking decision. Any big player studio (Disney, Fox, Columbia/Tristar) or retailer (Walmart, Blockbuster, FYE, Tower, Borders) announce that they are going to pick one and only one format and you'll see that format the winner. It won't be the market, it just won't be in the hands of the hd-dvd makers.

They gave up their chance to have a monopoly early and are forcing themselves, and us, to waste 50% of our money (and them facing sadly low sales in the holiday season because nobody wants to take that risk), when they could have had it all...

If you want to end this war quickly, write to Walmart or Disney today and tell them to pick one and only one.

The end-game for HD-DVD came when Disney

chose to be exclusively BluRay
released Pirates of the Caribbean

The latter became the best-selling high-def release of any type, outselling the then top-selling HD-DVD (The Matrix) 3 to 1.

In short, I actually called it right - when Disney picked one exclusively, it set the standard.