Ray S wrote:

> First, is it logical to assume that consumers will be reluctant to part
> with their dollars until they are sure what they buy will not be
> tomorrows doorstop.

Indeed. The one possible inroad that I can see for
HDDVD is in the form of plain old data storage.
Toshiba has developed a laptop HDDVD burner,
namely this one:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/10..._laptop_drive/
If they made it available and cheap, there might be
a chance for that to provide an indirect boost to the HDDVD
video market.