So I like many spent the past 12 months following closely the High Def format war between Blue Ray and High Definition Disks. It wasn’t much of a surprise that in the end Sony won the battle, and the war, especially given their massive backing of the format and the growing popularity of the Playstation 3.

I myself had already bought into both technologies so wasn’t really worried which one was going to win, and in fact was looking forward to the day when we had one winner as I thought this would mean cheaper prices for the loosing format.

Well I don’t think I could have been further from the reality as it turns out High-Def discs are maintaining their price. Of course people will argue that the High Def hardware prices have fallen quite considerably since the end of the war, especially the price of the XB360 HD-DVD add-on, but I also want to see the price of discs falling too. My advice right now, if you are an XB360 owner of course, would be to pickup the HD-DVD add on and wait. The prices of the discs are sure to drop and you could end up with a pretty decent High Def collection before long without having to drop a load of cash in the process.

Another rumour that seems to have been quashed of late is that of the XB360 having an integrated BlueRay player before long. I personally think that at this stage Microsoft have no real need to integrate BlueRay into their device, but could very well do this later in the year. I believe right now they are very happy going after the content distribution method via XBox Live, which in my opinion is probably going to be the main method consumers get their content in the years to come.

For now though it’s time to sit back and relax, those HD movies are sure to fall in price at some point in 2008 and when they do I’ll be ready, credit card in hand.