Sony CEO Howard Stringer gives some interesting comments about the ongoing format wars between sony blue ray and toshiba created HD-DVD.  It says that the wars are at a stalemat right now.  This comment is interesting seeing how many company have jumped ship from blue ray to HD-DVD and we now see HD-DVD players on sale at walmart for less then $100.  Stringer has the heavy job of repositioning Sony back to the top of the pack.  He also tryes to downplay the format war commenting “We were trying to win on the merits, which we were doing for a while, until Paramount changed sides, It doesn't mean as much as all that.”  This doesn't sound like a war that is at a stalemate it sounds like someone is loosing support.  Stringer states that he wishes he could go back in time to unite the 2 formats before going to launch.  Well here is to wishing, Toshiba when to the DVD consortium and got approved as the HD, DVD successor and Sony formed the blue-ray consortium.  Sounds like it didn't have much support from the start.

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