And most importantly it's a matter of diminishing returns. Few people are going to be able to take advantage of it, 50% of the people who go HiDef will buy the format that dies (maybe both formats will die if we're lucky and we can move on to Holography discs), there'll be a higher cost per disc and to top it all there will be little improvement in overall quality.
DVD are backwards compatible with both formats and DL discs are just getting cheap.

MeBe: Where did you read that about people returning HDTVs, it's hillarious? Reminds me of people returning widescreen DVDs thinking their loosing the top and bottom of their movie.

And to go way off subject: Mandated HDTV broadcast in '09, yikes have you seen the price of a decent sized HDTV versus a standard definition one? Man talk about governement created class division. Trailerpark Joe must buy a $100-200 converter to watch TV on his $90 Walmart TV (or he can watch snow). Everyone else can crack out $1000 if they don't want to lose any height on their 20" 4x3 TV when you go wide. You think HD-DVD/BluRay is a fiasco? Just wait until '09.

Patrick R.: If you want funny, they figure most HiDef DVDs at launch will be multiple regular DVD's shoehorned onto one disc. Eg. SciFi Channel's Dune on 1 disc instead of 3.