Xbox publicity machine Gamerscore has a little something something up about the HD-DVD. Don't get too excited though, it's really just something pumping up the HD and knocking down the Blue-Ray.

Cesarmenendez posts that there are three reasons why HD is better than Blue:

Price. One company out there has a $1,800 Beta-ray player (no release date) one that doesn t even play CDs! For 1,800, you could get a $500 Toshiba player, and about 40 HD movies. Industry support: Looks like the pendulum is swinging back in HD-DVD s favor. As an analyst quoted in the article says: It's only a matter of time before people start backing out of the Blu-ray camp." If that s the case, it might be because of. . . Beta-ray s own difficulties: Microsoft had serious doubts around the technical feasibility and pricing of Beta-ray for some time and our fears now seem well founded. Sony is hinting PS3 will be delayed because of Beta-ray, and that s with Sony driving the Beta-ray standards. If even Sony can t get it to work right, it raises lots of questions. A little reported fact (and one that the New York Times was confused about) is that the first Beta-ray discs will actually hold less: only 25GB compared to HD DVD s 30GB. That means less room for high definition extras and interactive features, which HD DVD says they fully intend to support.

Why Microsoft supports HDTV [Gamerscore]