Okay, first off, this topic is intended to be SEPERATE from the actual HD-DVD/BR format war. I'm not talking about either format in particular, just HD optical media in general.

My question: What would YOU like to see happen as a result of these two formats? Will you not be happy until the entire world is HD-only, and DVD sits in a landfill? Or, will you be content as long as you get what you want?

Seems there's a lot of very divergent opinions in this forum alone... I'd love to see hard numbers as to who stands where.

Here are the choices, unabridged. I know many people fall into the grey area in between, but that's okay, just pick which ever side you feel closest to.

#1 The Real Format War is SD vs HD! We need to focus on widespread adoption and the inevitable replacement of SD DVD. Individual formats aren't as important as HD as a whole. More than anything, you want a future where nothing runs at less than 720p.

#2 Let them eat cake! You love HD, but only care about advancing your chosed disc format to get your movie fix. You'd be fine with HD media maintaining less than 10% penetration, indefinately, so long as you have a steady diet of movies to watch.

Your 2nd option is complete failure in my mind. Don't you guys want things like Asian action movies, other foreign films/TV shows, anime, US TV cartoons, older or less popular US TV live-action shows, stand-up comedy compilations and other semi-rare material to come to HD!?!?!?

Think about how great some of that above stuff is...

I personally don't know if I can live forever with only SD copies of things like the Police Story trilogy, Coupling, Trigun, Batman:TAS, Married with Children, the Chris Rock HBO specials, etc...

If both formats don't die and new movies/material is consistently released then I will be satisfied. It would be a disaster if both formats failed and no more titles were releases on either.

#1. I want HDOM to replace DVD. when you don't have replacement you have nothing. It is niche with handful of titles until studios give up. They are not in it to sell 50k or 100k copies. That is OK at the start but they won't be around for long.

PS to the OP you should make polls like this public

I do not care who wins the format war, I'm just waiting for Denon dual format player. Because of the number of studios supporting BR, I'll probably lean in that direction. Probably my biggest desire is that the large capacity HD discs are used for HD audio as well as video.