As some of you may know, the war between HD-DVD and Blu-ray officially came to a dramatic conclusion on February 19, 2008 when Toshiba, the world's largest manufacturer of HD-DVD players at the time, called it quits. This came after several studios that once either backed both Blu-ray and HD-DVD or HD-DVD exclusively, decided to switch to Blu-ray exclusively. Incidentally, 20 years earlier, another format war effectively ended. That one did not end in Sony's favor, as they were the main proponent of the superior quality BetaMax format that eventually lost out to VHS. This time though, Sony, Blu-ray's brainfather, came out victorious.

The question now for the masses is no longer what format to get, but what Blu-ray Player. Since many factors, including steadily decreasing prices and more offerings of HD channels, have cause people to get high definiton televisions, the logical next step is to get a Blu-ray player with which to watch high definition movies. Yet, with the average cost of a new Blu-ray player still being around $550, some are deciding to wait it out and watch the prices falls. Others have decided to bite the bullet and get the most out of their movie watching experience right now. What do you plan to do?

But, hold on and drop that chalupa! Just when you thought it was all over and settled for another decade or so, Pioneer, which plans to starts selling Blu-ray players this year, decides to up the ante with a new HD format that may hold up to 16 times as much data.

Here we go again?