Once again, VC-9 isn't actual HD, and its AOD's main codec, so the picture has less info, not more. The studios are known to mostly support Blu-ray, while none fully back HD-DVD. More improtantly, the manufactuers support Blu-ray. We're talking Matsushita, Mitsubishi, Hitachi, Pioneer, Samsung, Sharp, TDK, Hewlett Packard and Dell. Sony even removed the one flaw it originally had, having no backwards compatibility. HD-DVD had to modify itself to a blue laser(originally, it was red). I still haven't read of AOD using the DVD-A audio format. Could you show me a link? Blu-ray is also considering AVC for a codec. They'll barely cost more than regular DVDs, and are certain to dominate the PC and gaming market.