Nah, I do believe blu-ray will be around for a while, it was just a matter of weeding out the competition.. everyone is moving towards backing blu-ray, so it looks like Sony has finally won out on something.
I have both, the format is the same on both as far as picture.. but I'm a HD junky (to a small extent), I like good clear pictures, and have been spoiled by it over the past couple years, since I got an HDTV. Microsoft has discontinued the HD-DVD addon for the 360, and it's speculated that the price will drop to 49.95 in the near future (who knows if this is true), but the HDA3 from Toshiba is now $99 at walmart (and I can imagine everywhere else), so take that, and the fact that HD-DVDs will be available online for a while, and there are a bunch of good quality titles already on the format.. it's worth looking in to.
Amazon.com has all HD-DVD titles on sale for at least 30% off..
http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=amb_link...pf_rd_i=hd-dvd