Who freaking cares anymore? HD-DVD and Blue-Ray will end-up being still born akin to SACD versus DVD-A battle. Only hardcore videophilles are willing to spend the prenium of adoption for ether format.

Average joe still thinks DVD9 is good enough for his needs without spending the big $$$$ on a HDTV and player. By the time HD-DVD and Blue-Ray will become cheap, Sony and somebody else will do another wave of ugly format wars.

I personally think that mainstream broadband and digtial cable are going to kill phyiscal media. The nastiness of DMCA will help the MPAA and RIAA to kill the middleman and establish a large scale pay-per-view scheme.

adds this to the list of 1,000 ways SONY ***ed up this year

How hard can it be to produce blue laser diodes en masse? Surely they're just another form of semiconductor?

Sony seems to have miscalculated something wrong badly there...

The hype game finally caught up with Sony...

Good. HD-DVD FTW.

I would actually consider this the third delay since they first said the PS3 was to be released Spring of '06.