You do have to take the BBC article with a pinch of salt. Block buster will continue to do HD-DVD in the 250 stores which currently run HD-DVD rental. Also, the BBC continues to refer to Bluray as as Bluray DVD...
This
story made me laugh, they refer to Bluray as DVD and claim the DVD market is "slowing". My arse. I say story, but I use it in the vaguest possible sense.
At the moment I will choose Bluray over HD-DVD if they are the same price and region free so I can get 1:1 pixel mapping on my HDTV. VGA has 2% overscan so it is slightly stretched.
I believe the one film studio that was HD-DVD has announced that they will be doing Bluray as well. Either way, if you have both formats then you are going to get the best version of the movie. If you are going to pick one, you should pick the one which has available the movies that you want to watch.
The problem I forsee is that the slow take up of both bluray and hd-dvd will mean that the market for them will still be considerably smaller than the DVD market. Movie companies want to move to the new formats because of the new copy protection to prevent piracy (short lived...). I dont see DVD leaving us for a long time. Its cheap, Cheap, CHEAP. I cant help but think the HD formats will be for the enthusiast for quite a long time.