Blu-Ray vs HD-DVD

This has been recognized as the "Betamax vs VHS war all over again"...HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray.  This was all down to marketing really.  Sony was behind Blu-Ray and Toshiba was behind HD-DVD.  Amazingly, Blu-Ray won...Despite Sony's market failure of the Betamax and the Minidisc format, they out-did Toshiba with their Blu-Ray format.  HD-DVD also only held 30GB per disk where-as Blu-Ray can hold 50GB per disk (50GB on optical media is ALOT...a CD is 700MB (just a little over HALF a GB, DVD-R is 4.7GB for single-layer or 8.5GB for dual-layer and most commercial movies are dual-layer disks).  HOWEVER....from some reports I have read online (due to the fact that I don't own any Blu-Ray or HD-DVD movies, I can't speak from personal experience), HD-DVD was actually far superior in the beginning as far as picture and sound quality.  Some people were saying that Blu-Ray would never surpass HD-DVD, but amazingly, and once again...the less superior format won!  (VHS won over the more superior Betamax, and now Blu-Ray won over the superior HD-DVD format!).  I believe the real reason that Blu-Ray REALLY won had nothing do with the picture and audio quality.  Most folks wouldn't be able to tell the difference between the two really...but when Sony released the PlayStation 3 with Blu-Ray built in, for LESS than the price of most stand-alone machines, it really gave the market what they wanted.  The latest game console AND the latest in video play-back for LESS than the price of a stand-alone HD-DVD (and most Blu-Ray) players.  Sony has REALLY taken advantage of the storage ability of the Blu-Ray drive in the PlayStation 3 with games such as God of War 3, Metal Gear Solid 4, Uncharted & Final Fantasy 13 being on 40GB disks.  The Xbox360 also got Final Fantasy 13, however, it was spread across 3 DVDs.  Also, DVD can't produce the high sound quality of Blu-Ray, so the Xbox360 version of Final Fantasy 13 was scaled down as far as audio (and probably graphics, I don't know for a fact).  Also, L.A. Noire was released on both PS3 and Xbox360, the PS3 version again, took advantage of the Blu-Ray capacity and ran off a single disk, whereas the Xbox360 version used 3 dual-layer DVDs.  So, the Sony PlayStation 3 saved Blu-Ray (some say Japan's porn market saved Blu-Ray, as they had flooded the market with Blu-Ray porn!)