and high-definition players that support both formats have already been introduced. 

That is surprising but very welcome news, another big area of course will be PC manufacturers, microsoft have obviously sided with HD and Apple and Sony with Blu-ray, quite a few other manufacturers have dedicated themselves to one or the other as well.

In this area you would have to give the advantage to HD simply because of Microsoft's involvement.

You have to wonder though, will these new systems ever be used to capacity?

Each disc could hold a few films at highest def and a lot more at current dvd standards, they should certainly be useful for compilations.

Cheers Trev.