Is HD-DVD soon to be gone for good?

"Over six thousand HD DVD supporters have signed an online petition urging Warner Home Entertainment to reconsider its decision to abandon the HD DVD format."

"I'm giving a very politically incorrect answer. I think the battle is over. I think Blu-ray has won."

This has me rather upset: last Christmas... no, I take that back. The Christmas before last Christmas, we were lucky enough to receive an HD-DVD player from an amazing cousin of ours. With the player came an offer to send us 6 free HD-DVD's with our order, which we took them up on (The DVD's came in about 4 months. But they were free, so i'm happy.) And now, I get an article that tells me that Warner, the company that started the whole HD "War" between the current two HD media disks: HD-DVD and Blu-Ray. Even Joseph Taylor, Executive Vice President of Panasonic's North American branch, made a very politically incorrect comment:

"I'm giving a very politically incorrect answer. I think the battle is over. I think Blu-ray has won."

Then again, Panasonic is the premiere Blu-Ray producer and developer, producing the first 100gb Blu-Ray Disk, which comprised of 4 25 gig layers (Panasonic was later smashed by Hitachi which created a 100gb disk without the need to buy a new Blu-Ray Player). But that's besides the point. The fact that they are removing the HD-DVD off the market makes me mad: HD-DVD started the whole "Hmm, maybe I can fit more data by tripple layering my disks" idea and has some really great features. Personally, I have nothing against Blu-Ray, and I think that it has a cool name, but for this brawl, I sided with HD-DVD (mainly because I'm scared of buying a Blu-Ray player... and my laptop reads HD-DVD's). So, I urge you to participate in an online petition called "Save HD-DVD!" There are quite a few people in the petition that have made personal promises to never buy from Warner again if they do in fact take the HD-DVD off the market. And yes, to be politically incorrect, I'll add a link to the counter-petition, "Let HD-DVD Die!" I wonder if these big-wig companies pay any attention to these petitions, or better yet, these blogs...