It's interesting to watch the take-up of HD discs in
Australia -- many of the major hire stores are only stocking Blu-Ray, and our biggest HD-selling store ("JB Hi-Fi") has three times as many Blu-Ray titles, compared to HD-DVD.
Judging by that, I'd say Blu-Ray is easily winning here in Australia. I can't tell you why that is, as the XBox360 is certainly the most popular games machine (and presumably most owners have the HD-DVD player).
My guess is that BOTH formats are here to stay, but will be superceded in the near future by a non-disc solution (ie: crystal or solid-state media).
Like I read somewhere, there's good and bad from this: we can't get some movies on our chosen format, but there's also competitive pressure for manufacturers from two
simultaneous consumer streams.
I reckon the "Beta vs VHS war" is over, and both sides went home due to rain.
