Format Wars Are Over and Blu-Ray Won?

While this might be a bold statement, all things point to this. Blu-Ray was already winning in market share slowly but surely, and today’s Warner decision to go BD-only puts the final nails into this HD format war as Warner is the biggest movie distributor. The HD-DVD Group didn’t seem to know about Warner’s decision and they canceled their CES conference out of the blu tonight, amidst making vague references to possible legal action. My take: I wish Blu-Ray had a region-free policy like HD-DVD does. Living in USA today but one day moving to Europe, it will have an impact in my media library.

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