ZDNet’s Tech Bits is declaring Blu-Ray dead:
Blu-ray is in a death spiral. 12 months from now Blu-ray will be a videophile niche, not a mass market product.
With only a 4% share of US movie disc sales and HD download capability arriving, the Blu-ray disc Association (BDA) is still smoking dope. Even $150 Blu-ray players won’t [...]

A still skeletal Steve Jobs today made a bunch of ho-hum MacBook introductions, most notable for killing off Firewire and introducing a new manufacturing process. 
Along the way, though, he said something interesting about Blu-Ray HD DVDs:
“Blu-ray is just a bag of hurt,” said Jobs. “It’s great to watch the movies, but the licensing of the tech [...]

Back in June of last year, we suggested that in the fight between Blu-Ray and HD DVD, Internet TV would be the winner:
Internet TV is plagued by the same problems as Blu-Ray and HD DVD, though: limited content, complex setup and high cost for hardware. Nevertheless, Internet TV is already good enough to make users [...]

It looks like Toshiba is giving up on HD DVD, making Blu-Ray the de facto high-definition DVD standard.
The format war, often compared to the Betamax-VHS battle in the 1980s, has confused consumers unsure of which DVD or player to buy. The HD DVD standard has suffered crippling blows in the last few months, though, losing [...]

Despite the fact that prices have plummeted for next-generation high-definition DVD players, the two systems - Blu-ray, developed by Sony, and HD DVD, from Toshiba, have sold only about one million stand-alone players combined.
In June, we suggested that the winner in the war between HD DVD and Blu-Ray could be Internet TV. Increasingly, it’s looking [...]

Businessweek takes a look today at the fight between Blu-Ray and HD DVD to become the dominant standard for high-definition video delivery:
Time doesn’t appear to be on either side. With hard-drive capacity growing exponentially and prices coming down even more sharply, experts predict most broadband-enabled homes within 10 years will download much of their content [...]