Bah

The author asks a question "why didn't the latter work for HD-DVD" - the answer is simple - console owners hate addons. They buy consoles, not upgradable Legos, PC is for that.
Thats why it didn't work with x-box.
PS3 owners got the hi-def player with the console and many of them decided to buy a hi-def movie or two. X360 owners had to pay additional $170 to get HD so nobody bothered. And thats how the PS3 played a crucial role in the demise of the HD-DVD. Sony pushed their product into the market throught the ordinary "console" people and that was the right thing to do, because pushing Blu Ray through HD fanatics would take ages - nobody cares that the videophile next door has a HD player, but as soon as you have a HD player lying around thing start to look different.

the truth is right out there...

or, sony just sent some good old greens warner brothers' way. once the big shot was in, the others just had to follow suit...viola, we have a winner, sony is now in a win win situation, not only does it get royalties for its format, it now has a deal breaker to get the PS3's selling like never before...

"Indeed, the 'CPU is the brian of the computer' team of hacks at the BBC claim that the inclusion of Blu-ray on the PS3 was the only reason the standard was able to bolster sales figures" - wasnt BBC always about the bigger picture? what are all these bullshit claims?

Uneducated

This article was illinformative.

You have not been in board meetings during discussions about HD-DVD vs. BR, that much is clear. The biggest 'long term' factor in high definition is in regards to digital distribution, where as the playstation 3 is the only piece of hardware out on the market that can play both portable HD discs and digital files downloaded or streamed off a network. Studios like Sony and Toshiba know HD content will be more popular via digital distribution than portable media, and have regarded the ps3 as important to this role as the ps2 was to dvd.

Do your research.