I think this is a prime example why a format war can benefit the customer. Competition between the two formats would appear to be driving down some of the costs. I don't think that we would have seen such a drop had blue-ray been 'allowed' to go it alone.

Not sure if it is having much of an impact on software costs as the only experience that I have of HD-DVD/Blu-ray is walking passed them in my local HMV - they seem to be priced much the same and around �10 above DVD.

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