Blu-ray Dominates HD- DVD in Holiday shopping

You are misinformed about Nielsen data, your anti-Sony stance notwithstanding. It does represent 40% of DVD sales, however, at this point in time WalMart is barely 10% of high-def disc sales. In fact, the retailers reporting to Nielsen represent 90% of the current HD business, inclulding Best Buy, Circuit City, Amazon, and others. There was no $98 HD DVD player sale on Black Friday at WalMart, Toshiba had there chance 2 weeks earlier. Theonly HD "deal" was for a PS3 with 10 free BD movies instantly. Hate Sony all you want, plenty of people do. However, if you are trying to "spin" something in favor of HD DVD, you need to use facts. Unfortunately for you and a lot of other people Microsoft and Toshiba are ripping off, the facts do not support HD DVD.

The data for this isn’t even complete; they got it from the Nielsen VideoScan which is not comprehensive, as they do not include sales from Wal-Mart and many other large retail outlets. Wal-Mart represents nearly forty percent of standard DVD sales. They also had the 99 dollar hddvd player sale on black Friday I am pretty sure that would have sold a few hddvds there. I am hoping that hd dvd wins this war or at least wins by a marginal amount. It would be nice to see Sony loose yet another format war. I just can not support a company that disrespects there customers by telling them false truths. Also they killed a sheep and then displayed it for show, at the god of war 2 game release. It’s just distasteful.

i'm 55 yr old. i bought ps3 to watch blu-ray movies and play games, just to let you know. and i stopped buying dvd. i also bought hd-dvd. ps3 sounds better with uncompressed pcm audio. take that hd-dvd.

It's just way too early to be making sweeping statements about this. Most people I know are happy to be buying regular DVD - and I know a few with nice cheap HD DVD players they use to upscale DVD with. A game console format is fine, for game console owners. I honestly don't know any adults looking for a PS3 to watch movies on. I know they exist (if forums are to be believed) but I don't know any.