So what? The Blu-ray format has won! What did they win exactly? Their players had less technical features than the recent HD-DVD quitters and while wasting months and months of potential customer adoption time fighting HD-DVD they forgot the real battle may come from online movie downloads and from el-cheapo dvd upconverter players that make your existing dvd library look pretty darn good on HDTV sets. Ohh and by the way if your tv is 37 inches or less at the end of the day (except for real videophiles) it all pretty much looks the same to the average eye – so keep your money for now. For those of you who have already been burned invested in HD-DVD players or HD-DVD movies Toshiba has announced that they will not except returns! They said "They [customers] understood that there were two competing formats and understood that one of them would probably prevail … so they made the decision to go with HD DVD.” Ouch, thank you mam can I have another!

My recommendation is to hold off buying a Blu-ray player right now anyway because they are upgrading their units to include better features later this year. If you already have HD-DVD movies you might decide to buy the LG hybrid player to play Blu-ray and HD-DVD discs. But then again why? With Slingbox, Apple TV, Netflix and if companies like Morgan Freeman’s Clickstar can get some real momentum the whole idea  of buying a player to watch movies may be obsolete – just buy from our computers and easily watch them on our tv sets. Honestly,I wish the battle would have kept going throughout 2008, so it would have given more time for internet players to swoop in.