Yeah, that was my point, they're hedging their bets, so if HD DVD "wins" they'll be backed up by cheap hardware from China that's easy to rebadge until they get their "proprietary" design built and that's wishful thinking, they might just badge engineer the whole mess and leave it at that, cut their loses from Blu-ray production and stiff all the consumers that bought into the Blu-ray camp, like I've said before the law of early adoption is simple: you get burnt, it is inviolable.
Matsushita, Sony , LG, ATI, IBM, NEC, Nokia, Phillips have joined and partnered with the Chinese pseudo-HD DVD conglomerate. Something smells.