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Time Warner Cable March 16 slashed the number of channels available for live streaming on the Apple iPad — less than 24 hours after launching the TV Everywhere app.

http://www.homemediamagazine.com/electronic-delivery/time-warner-cable-cuts-ipad-live-tv-access-50-23348

BR adoption is tepid at best

No, actually, Blu-Ray adoption is actually about on par with where DVD adoption was:

http://www.homemediamagazine.com/tks-take/harris-interactive-survey-gets-slammed.

You HD-DVD supporters just can't let it go, can you. Despite obvious evidence in stores and truly cheap Blu-Ray players now, you just can't fathom something succeeding that killed you beloved HD-DVD (even though they are just about the same in terms of content delivery!)

Rejoice that consumers are embracing HD video, instead of hoping Blu-Ray will die just to spite the victor.

The problems discussed in TFA aren't being felt across the entire home entertainment industry. Overall sales of DVD, Blu-ray and digital content fell just 3.9% in the first half of 2009, though sales of physical media fell more. Rentals are up over eight percent in the same period.

High prices and the recent lack of diversity in titles have kept us out of the market for videogames. We own a PS3, but no PS3 games. We use it to play DVDs and Blu-rays, and to play our collection of PS2 games. Every so often we rent a new PS3 game to try it out, but none of them has yet made the case for spending $60.

Here is a link that provides the raw sales data. HD DVD sales nosedived from 14,558 players sold to 1,758. Sales were just 12% of the week before. 1,758 players sold is simply pathetic and if this continues a few more weeks and the format just isn't viable. It wouldn't surprise me if more HD DVD players were returned than sold last week.

Maybe there was a small affect by the HD TV promotion but its fairly obvious that Warner's announcement followed by the disastrous showing by HD DVD at CES were the main causes.

The next few weeks are going to be interesting. I expect we'll see some minor recovery as stores try to shift remaining stock at bargain prices but this really looks like the end. Maybe Toshiba knows it too and is just saying nothing while the channels are cleared out. And it can't come a moment too soon since this is probably the make or break year for HD storage to go mainstream.