Next-generation DVD format war: which will win out between HD-DVD and Blu-ray?

Howdy quizzical one, IMHO both will be supported by NetFlix and Blockbuster and the movie studios, and then before a clear winner is announced, this standard battle will disappear.

Hey, bandwidth really is pouring on the speed these days. Both at home, and in mobile computing.

The standards for wired and wireless video transmission are politely falling into place.

So when you can "Tivo" what you want on-demand, why rent or buy?

And for archiving and backup, Sony's own optical PDD offers much higher transfer rates than Blu-ray. The UDO format is also a likely data storage format.

Then add to the mix other competitors:

* Divx

* Enhanced Versatile Disc – a Chinese optical disc system developed as a response to high DVD licensing costs

* Digital Multilayer Disk – the successor technology to Fluorescent Multilayer Disc

* Forward Versatile Disc – Taiwanese backed red laser format

* Holographic Versatile Disc

* Versatile Multilayer Disc

Neither will win, both will be history. Doubt it? See below.

Blu-ray is already coming out, the war is over. By the way, am a Seattlite, Microsoft isn't the big bad that you think it is. Starbucks, however...

HD-DVD Microsoft backs it and that is more than enough support.