You're all wrong.
First you must understand that there really isn't a huge difference between the 2 formats, they're just STORAGE MEDIA... There is nothing magical going on... ooh The Blu Leprechaun is making my BluRay movies so much better than HD-DVD. But yes, it is the only place to get a true 1080p FEED directly to your TV. (read that last sentence and don't come back at me with 'well when I hit the INFO button on my remote that displays the resolution... it says 1080p'...' -- Remember, I said FEED. The junk you get off of cable is 720 and pumped up to look better if you have the right components but not TRUE 1080p. That is the future, especially when we can get Fiber Internet like some markets do in the country... Then they'll release 1080p downloads... that's the money. Better start planning a massive hard drive array. I've already got 2 external 2TB drives, but it's not going to be enough....haha.
Second, by the time this 'so called war' is over with there is going to be one winner. But it's not HD-DVD and it's not BLU-RAY. It's going to be something called a hard drive... DIGITAL DOWNLOADS my friends. It's coming...
Third, Microsoft isn't going to put an internal drive either Bluray or HD-DVD because they don't want to sign their name to anything... But in true MS fashion, they'll make an external player (which is really no big deal for them and they could release that at any time) that has BluRay.
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