Are you running out of ideas to keep spreading FUD? You just don't know what else to do to keep getting hits, do you Engadget?

Get over it: Blu-ray's winning, HD-DVD's failing and the situation keeps looking like it is not going to change.

Dedicated to "Treolvr":

http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/6909/pana13tx9.jpg

Blu-ray basically owns HD-DVD in terms of support. But I guess you just hate Blu-ray for the sake of hating something.

There has been a BD-25 / DVD9 disc in the works for a while now. Needless to say consumers and publishers should prefer to have and release content in DVD9 and BD25 quality rather than in DVD5 (obsolete for movies) and HD-DVD30.

http://www.jvc-victor.co.jp/english/press/2004/bd-dvd.html

HD-DVD will have no advantages over Blu-ray in the end, not even price.

That's NOT the interface that the users will be using.

This is it: http://e3videos.killerrabbits.net/e3-2006-ps3-dashboard.mov

It has way, way more options and features than the one shown by Engadget here, which is the interface for the development kits. The linked one was shown at E3 this year, which means that it's not complete either.

"Sorry Hmmmm, you're the one that doesn't know what you are talking about.

DVI can do 1080p50/60 as well."

I didn't say it couldn't. I just said HDMI 1.3 >> DVI, and that component can't do 1080p60. Just tell me where exactly I denied DVI-I could do 1080p60 or that it was inferior to HDMI 1.1

Farley, you have no idea what you're talking about.

HDMI 1.3 is way superior to DVI-I. It provides more than double the bandwidth HDMI 1.1 did and it will simply become the standard over DVI in the next few years. PS3 will use HDMI 1.3 to provide up to 48 bit colour for Blu-ray playback and, to name an application. Future-proofing is the main reason.

Component could do 1080p30, but not 1080p60. HDMI can do 1080p60 and go much beyond.

And current HDMI cables can carry HDMI 1.3.

HD-DVD doesn't stand a chance against the support Blu-ray already has. I don't believe we'll see Blu-ray dominating the market anytime soon (even though I expect it to be an interesting backup solution soon enough), but there is absolutely no reason that makes me think HD-DVD could win given the circumstances.

The CD was created pretty much by Philips and Sony.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD

"Anyone know who the guy is that they used for their logo? Fils-Aime?"

Yeah, you were close! [/sarcasm]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v507/mousedown/revo.swf

"According to CED Magazine, Sony/MGM and Disney currently have no plans to down-convert, and Fox is opposed to it as well. Warner Pictures is a proponent of the ICT, and it is expected that Paramount will also implement it [9]. Other studios releasing Blu-ray content have not yet commented on whether or not they will use down-conversion. AACS guidelines require that any title that implements the ICT must clearly state so on the packaging."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray#Digital_rights_management

This must be a shocker for some of you, huh?