Originally Posted by GatorB

My point was to point out that MS wasn't really toshiba's friend. They COULD have done things and didn't. Bill Gates isn't retarded. He wasn't going to back blu-ray which is made by SONY. So what chocie did he have? He wanted to have somehthing in his back pocket until he got his HD movie rental service going on XBL. He has that so he couldn't give 2 shits if HD-DVD lives or dies.