Sony Admits "Difficult" Fight with HD-DVD

So after months of PR spin, telling us "Blu Ray has won!" over and over, now we get a candid comment from the Sony CEO about the format war...how it's a "difficult" fight and saying HD-DVD is a formidable opponent?

This going into the holiday season??

Something is going on, as I find the timing very odd. Perhaps he knows one of the major Blu Ray supporters is going to HD-DVD after the 1st of the year, perhaps they have projections about the HD-DVD players sold in the last few weeks...either way something seems to be up. And I give him credit, either way, for finally speaking with some honesty, which is one thing we haven't heard much of from "his side" since the format war began.

Click on the text to read the AP article...

NEW YORK - The head of Sony Corp., Howard Stringer, said Thursday that the Blu-ray disc format the company has developed as the successor to the DVD is in a "stalemate" with the competing HD DVD format, chiefly backed by Toshiba Corp. and Microsoft Corp.

"It's a difficult fight," said Stringer, speaking at the 92nd Street Y cultural center in Manhattan.