Some interesting updates since this article was originally written...
I have heard a range of people talking about the influence of the Porn industry on this battle, lets not forget that Porn is a US$57 billion dollar industry. The porn industry also threw its towel in with VHS in the early 80's and we all know the out come of that battle.
Ron Wagner, director of IT operations at E! Entertainment Television Inc., in Los Angeles, said his company has already chosen the Blu-ray Disc format, in large part because of talk in the porn industry favoring it over rival HD-DVD.
On the other side I hear that Wal-Mart - another huge player - look like going with HD-DVD, this could be a big development. Apparently the cheaper production costs will better serve their budget conscious customers. Once they start importing no-brand players from China or elsewhere and selling them along with cheap "loss leader" discs the battle could turn in HD-DVD's favour.
Another factor in favour of HD-DVD is the relative failure of the Playstation 3. Many people assumed that PS3 was going to be the Trojan horse that will get a lot of players into living rooms. This now looks unlikely, as the Nintendo Wii and Xbox360 are dominating the next-gen game console markets - both these systems are DVD only however, so they don't present a direct advantage to the HD-DVD side.
The battle continues...
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