The problem is that the Blu-Ray hasn't been out long enough, nor used for long enough to be able to end arguments.
With so many companies backing it though, HD DVD are going to have a real struggle to beat it. And also, with so many companies (a lot of electronic companies and the like) backing it, they'll be so many Blu-Ray players and whatnot made over the next few years.
I honestly think that Blu-Ray is going to be the next big thing. It went from VHS, to CD-ROM, to DVD-ROM.
The interesting thing is that Sony backs many of these developing products, and look where it leaves them!
I really REALLY hope the product with the least copyright protection wins out ...not that that'll be the case but yea . I want free games ;_;. Oh well.
Oh yea, hear about Windows pushing for software licensing(sp?) Paying monthly to use your operating system, etc. Bunch of shit.
There'll be way around it. If they don't know you've got the OS on your computer then how can they charge you?
Take their validation thingy for instance. An easy way to bypass that is to have Windows Automatic Updates permantly off, and don't connect online until you're sure they are. Works for us. Should work for everybody else. And it works because they send a nice little ActiveX component down the line to you that checks the validity of your product.
Or you can download a nice little Java Script that fools it. Either way there's a way around it.
Who knows. They're probably gonna let everyone get around it and sue the hell out of them for 100,000 dollars apiece until MS buys a nice sized country, say Germany, and round THREE BEGINS!