MusicmanIA, could you reccomend some HD Trailers or Movies which are your favorites for Demo's? Include Animations too . 

I personally have never cared which format won, provided eventually it came down to a unified standard. I did think that HD-DVD had a good chance to win based on some of the unique strengths the format has over Blu-Ray (I wrote this back in Novemeber, you can read that here [link]), but they really haven't taken advantage of them well enough to get momementum. At the current time, it's not looking good for HD-DVD, but with Paramount and Universal on their side, it's not quite over... yet.

This HD-DVD firesale though may be too little, too late. If they had done this months ago it would have helped, but now it just screams "clear the warehouses" instead of "we want to win."

Thoughts?

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I never understood Toshiba's marketing strategy.  They never seemed particularly well-equipped to deal with the Sony marketing juggernaut from a PR standpoint.  And Disney seemed much more active in promoting Blu-ray than Universal or Microsoft ever seemed with HD-DVD.  They needed more exposure and they never got it.

 Toshiba slashing prices on their hardware should have come much sooner-- it was the best counter they had against the PS3, and they didn't use it effectively.  It became "HD-DVD, the slightly cheaper option".  Which ultimately wasn't good enough.