Doug,
I feel for you. I was probably the last person in America to buy a VCR because I knew that one format was going to win out and whichever one I bought would be the wrong one, so I waited. I saw that Netflix was going to change over to them but hadn't seen where Toshiba had formally announced they were throwing in the towel. I just wonder how long they will continue with the standard DVD disks. My last computer which is two years old has a dual DVD format drive in it that writes and reads the dual DVDs and will write and read a standard CD, all in the same drive. And it is already obsolete.
And your HD DVD would make a great small planter.
Ron