I'm not fully sure why Microsoft is choosing HD, but to me, HD DVD seems to be winning. Look at the movie lineup for each player. HDDVD has a number of Movie production studios in their camp, universal, paramount, etc.. Blu ray's lineup consist soley of Sony produced movies.
Soo... if you own an HD DVD player there will be movies from most studios availble for your use.
If you own a blu ray player there will only be Sony movies to use.
Sounds like a no brainer to me, especially considering the production costs of both units. It's an accepted fact that blu ray will cost atleast 2x that of a HD DVD player. Plus most people are alread sold on the DVD technology, familiar symbols, and prob backawards compatible for current dvd's. Blu ray offers none of these things.
But this is ALL SPECULATION, we'll have to wait until they both launch to tell. If blu ray is better and offers more choice then I'll buy it, if not then I'm going for HD DVD. I'll tell you this, price makes a big difference, remember the NEO GEO?? No, if not it's because it was way to expensive only only a few die hards bought it, it was awesome and it was leaps and bounds above what was currently availible. It was just too exspensive and people weren't willing to pay a $1000 no matter how good it was. That was about 12-15 years ago. My guess is no one is gonna pay $1500 - 2000 for a blu ray no matter how much better it is that HD DVD.
Once again, just speculation, enjoy
