Pretty much anywhere outside of the US you mean? They dont work in Ireland here either :(

> One question still has to be answered: what are all the BD and HD fanboys going to do with their free time, now that the war is over?

Hopefully sack all those extra PR staff and reduce costs so we can all enjoy cheaper movies and actually move on. As much as two formats was hindering the HD battle, high costs are going to do it even more when people dont see the benefit of upgrading the DVD's yet.

Rugby tbh.

Better then both your pussy "american football" and pussy soccer.

It depends on how much you use it. I have several friends with it. At the start they all had bad battery life but they spend half the day playing with the GPS and other things on it, or left the camera running in the background etc.

Generally the battery is on a par with the other smartphones on the market as long as you dont go around blasting the GPS on whenever someone wants to see it.

A preview from next weeks blue peter.

Isint that Apples marketing strategry?

@your_boring@hotmail.com

"HD-DVD still have a higher market share at the moment hate to break it to you."

Your an idiot.

blu-ray is outselling HD-DVD in most if not all territories.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_high_definition_optical_disc_formats#Sales_data

If your gonna make wild claims at least back them up.

@your_boring

You have *no* idea then about HD-DVD and Blu-Ray.

"i think it was a d!ck move by sony to back blu-ray ( not to mention moronic and costly ) all because they hate toshiba and Microsoft?"

Well, it was actually sony who first developed the HD disc for the consumer market many years ago. HDTV had been popular and out in Japan for a while but there was no medium for it, hence where it all started. They gathered the support of nearly all major manufactories too if you had not noticed. Its NOT a sony-only product.

It was actually Tosh who broke away (right choice of words?) from Blu-Ray to form HD-DVD along with Microsoft who wanted to use their iHD software or something.

Id reccomend you actually read up on something before you make sweeping statements.

It appears to be more of a replacement for old shortlength Infrared transfer drvices then anything to compete with WirelessUSB or Bluetooth.

The idea is to never to have to worry about having to pair a device or any other settings. Just put the two items side by side or ontop of a TransferJet pad and they will be able to operate together.

Don't think I have laughed so much today as when I read those comments.
"HD-DVD is the natural evolution of DVDs. Blu Ray is a studio format that wasn't orginally created for HD movies. "

Some people need to read up more :)