There was a reference to the number of PS3 out there as part of the decision to favor BR at this time. Is it possible that this is designed to bring in PS3 owners to rent games at their stores, after all HD-DVD will stil be available online, and you can return the disks locally.

Ade

Well, I for one as a PS3 owner was annoyed that they rented PS3 games and not BD movies in my local store.

Every decision about BD is related to the PS3.