I haven't exactly seen the news reports on the masses flocking to retailers and snatching up all the HD-DVD players and movies.
there were only 6000 players released in the first batch in the US and 1000 in Japan a bit earlier, sales were good, but at 6000 and 1000 how can they not :), but at 6k a pop, it isn’t going to help HD DVD get the market share it needs to get studios that are not already supporting it to take notice before BD comes out (and especially the PS3)