Lucas Mearian of ComputerWorld doesn’t think so. Here is an excellent article entitled

“Blu-ray or HD DVD? Neither, thanks”

He makes some very interesting, and I think salient, points in this piece. His main point is basically that it doesn’t make any difference which one wins; they both will be irrelevant soon enough anyway. Indeed, his position is that the DVD disc itself will be dead soon enough. Why use it when storage by other means - mainly from cheap servers/NAS (network attached storage) devices that are getting cheaper and easier to set up in the home. Streaming and on-demand video is in the process of overtaking DVD discs already. Give it some more time and that’ll be that.

Even as the over-eager ‘early adopter’ that I am, I haven’t picked up an high-def DVD in either flavor. I, too, have been waiting for the format wars to play out then I’ll look at the lay of the land and decide. This article beings up a thought-provoking perspective on the whole thing. Check it out.