I definitely DEFINITELY give them credit for that. Unfortunately as the only studio doing it, the effort while genuine would have been useless and ended up costing them more than it helped either them or the war.
Really it's up to the CE manufacturers. I think once it's viable to build a fully compliant dual format machine and sell it for under $400, you are going to see sales ramp up not unlike the second and third years of DVDs. The politics are affecting sales and the relative lack of sales are slowing down the reduction in cost of manufacturing. getting rid of the politics (or at least making them not matter) will speed up this whole process. I understand most of you were hoping for one side to win, but at this point that is looking like an impossibility.
While it's true that most people think their DVDS are "good enough", most (including analysts) forget that DVD boomed on the back of NEW releases, not catalog releases. It was movies like Matrix and Godzilla that propelled DVD, not Jurassic Park or Aliens. End the format war enough (or make it look that way) to carry new releases and eventually people WILL move over to HD, if only for new releases. After they have enough new release HD under their belt, it's at that point that they will be eager to replace their favorite catalog titles with brand new HD versions of them.
