not really if someone was paying attention. it has been pretty obvious since around CEDIA when Warner only attended the BD conference and said that this war can't go on for ever and it is starting to hurt HDOM adoption (or something like that). The only thing that was not obvious at that time was the timing. But then when, at the BD conference held by Disney Dan Silverberg (VP of HDM) said that WBs will be changing their strategy, it was obvious the news would be coming early 2008 (my personal guess was CES, but this was much better). Then when Steve Nickerson (Ex Toshiba employee and HD DVD shill that was forcing WB's stance of screwing the BDs to help HD DVD -like you mentioned) got the boot and Jeffrey Bewkes (the guy at TW that made WB go neutral in the first place) became President and CEO of TW. It was beyond obvious that it was coming and coming real soon.


Talking about obvious, New Line has announced they are abandoning the sinking ship known as HD DVD as well.


New Line has also