Who besides me has actually read the article on Slashdot? Fact is, 50GB Blu-Ray discs are still in the theoretical stage, so @ this point HD-DVD still has the edge in storage space. It also is a lot closer to market, since manufacturing plants only require minor retooling to produce HD-DVDs. That being said, I think that technology companies are in way too much of a hurry to get HD product to market; they should wait until HD is in a greater percentage of North American homes. This would give them the R&D time to perfect and possibly expand storage capacity. I'm in no hurry for HD, and would rather they worked the bugs out than put out 2 formats, one of which may be hobbled by technical problems.