Since it's probably of immediate interest to few, only a small snatch of the sort of articles beginning to appear:

Ready to buy Blu-ray? Better hit pause button

Price expected to remain high for now, and you'll need to upgrade, too

By Suzanne Choney
updated 10:02 p.m. CT, Wed., Feb. 20, 2008

The high-definition DVD format war may be over, but not the battle for eyeballs and dollars when it comes to viewing high-def movies.
With Toshiba's announcement Tuesday that it's abandoning the HD DVD format it helped create, leaving Sony's Blu-ray the winner, consumers may feel they have no choice but to buy a Blu-ray player in order to enjoy movies in HD.
There are good reasons to wait. ...

[The "reasons" are given in at the link. You probably care only if you're thinking about a purchase.]

John