Yes, I'm positive HD-DVD is dead. But I have still seen NOTHING official. Even 100 headlines reporting the same "inside source" do not a named official source make!

When you see something like, "Mr. Smith, public relations manager of Toshiba's optical division, says that the company will begin 'ramping down HD DVD efforts' and will stop all marketing and production by the third quarter", now THEN you can jump up and down and yell "it's official".

At least the BBC plainly states right at the beginning of their article that it's all speculation, unlike what normally passes for journalistic integrity on the internet.