As I believe Alan pointed out, the two formats, in the grand scheme of things, are virtually identical for all intents and purposes - 1080p video, lossless audio, interactivity. The differences are relatively incremental otherwise.

My greatest fear should HD DVD win, is that we'll have to deal with portion of Blu-ray fans who truly believe there's a big difference, reminding us for the next ten years that Blu-ray was the better format and should have won, blah blah blah.

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Six years in the future....

HDTV Reviewer: "The picture and sound on Transformers 3 was nothing short of stunning - a 10/10 on both picture and sound is warranted for this exceptional HD DVD! This reference disk should find a place in every enthusiast's collection."

Meanwhile, in the Comments Field:

BLuBoiE08: "Just noe that Blur-ray shld haev won!@! If this had ben on bluray.,, it have been a 12/10! Stoopid low bitrate HD DUD! Barely better th@n SD! Blu-ray FTW!!!!!!!!1111!!!11