With the news that Warner Bros. is dropping its support for HD-DVD and producing Blu-Ray discs exclusively from now on, the HD format war is pretty much over and Blu-Ray is the winner. The only major HD-DVD supporter left is Universal, and it’s unlikely they’re going to want to stay on a clearly losing side.
It’s actually a good thing that one side is finally gaining a dominant upper hand, since otherwise it was poised to be another VHS-vs-Beta war all over again, and the confusion would have kept people away.
The larger war is still only half-won though, as Blu-Ray still has to convince people to choose it instead of, well, plain DVD. People already get tons of extras and what they think is a decent-looking picture with DVDs, so is the higher resolution alone going to sway them into buying new players and more expensive discs…
(Maybe I won’t regret getting a PS3 after all.)