Originally Posted By: Dignan
only because I hate to see a Sony format become adopted,


This is one of the bigger misconceptions out there about the formats. Blu-Ray is a format based on work by Matsushita, Pioneer, Philips, Thomson, LG Electronics, Hitachi, Sharp, Samsung, and Sony. HD-DVD is a format based on work by Toshiba and NEC when the DVD Forum wanted a new format. Both formats have a lot of backing companies, and neither was the sole creation of one company.