A nail in the coffin for HD-DVD???

[Mendel's Balls]

HD-DVD and blu-ray pictures are exactly the same, and often use the same video file on the disc. The big difference is that HD-DVD encryption has been cracked so it's now the consumer friendly format despite the wish of it's creators, while blu-ray is still the anti-consumer pro-studio format.

Having moved beyond plastic discs a couple of years ago, blu-ray with it's locked-in format is useless to me. HD-DVD can be copied to my media server and played at a click from a menu without the disc being present, and those files will be playable without restriction when HD-DVD and blu-ray are a distant memory.

Why would you be against the consumer friendly format, and for the locked-down one?

Sounds like the industry is just trying to protect its interests.....maybe some of us so much anti-consumerism, just more like anti-piracy and anti-theft.