Toshiba is making HD-DVD drives a selling point and people are buying them. Rather affordable Toshiba notebooks with HD-DVD are showing up at best buy. What I would really like to see though are desktops with HD-DVD burners and affordable media to burn on.

i read somewhere "probably dailytech" that the obvious winner of this format war would be the blue-ray, any idea why?!

- from the price point of view, it is far from promising
- from the storage point of view, i think 51GB is more than enough right now.
- hd-dvd players were sold at wall mart for less than 150$ including 5 free movies with the purchase

why will the blue-ray be winning with all these circumstances combined?!

No one will ever buy an dual layer(30gb) disk never mind and triple layer (51gb) disk as well, thay norm cost to much dvd9 disks still cost alot more then 4.2gb disks

so its 15gb or maybe in an unlikey event 30gb
BD starts at 25gb that i think is plenty for now and for an long time (50gb for dual 75-100gb for triple layer )

OEM pcs (apart from toshiba) norm only come with the option with BD on an PC (norm higher end pcs tho)
most uk suppyers only stock BD readers and burners (some do the HD-dvd Reader only + BD-burner combo)

lack of been able to buy HD-dvd is the death of it in the PC market,