Yeah, and on November the 18th there will be exactly 400,000 BluRay players SOLD -- fully functional with HDMI -- not on the store shelve. Numbers are very deceiving! The PS3 by itself could sell 6 times as many players as Toshiba will produce in this country alone by the end of the year. And I am willing to bet that there will not be one PS3 on a retail shelf anywhere in the US on December 31. You can not say that about the Toshiba HD-DVD drives.
If it is a numbers game, by December those sale thru numbers for both players and movies will start moving decidedly towards BluRay. New BluRay titles since VC-1 and MPEG4 started being used are getting the same reviews as their HD-DVD counterparts (when the movie is sold in both formats). So the numbers game will really start this XMAS. I guess you can hope Sony stops producing PS3s. That is the only way HD-DVD is going to hold any lead before XMAS. After that it will become the numbers game. Same thing happened last time with VHS and Betamax. The numbers were on VHS's side and that is the format that won. And it was definately not the supperior product at the time. In a numbers game, if you build more, and sell more, and there are more titles for it, eventually you will have the lion's share of the market. That is how business is down -- and a supperior product does not always mean numbers.