DVD stalemate

According to CEO of Sony, the DVD race between Blu-Ray and the competing HD-DVD have reached a stalemate. I don't necessarily see this as a bad thing, primarily because I'm perfectly satisfied with regular DVD and don't want be, as a DVD consumer, forced to upgrade yet again (particularly since I own close to 100 DVDs).

Now I know that Blu-Ray and HD-DVD players can play conventional DVDs in their players, but what concerns me is the day when a movie I want to own doesn't get released on conventional DVD, but rather released on HD-DVD or Blu-Ray only! That's what worries me as a DVD consumer, because then I'm forced to buy a new player that I didn't want (or need) in the first place.

I have to be honest, I find this whole format war very tiresome. While I enjoy movies a great deal, I don't find it essential to watch it in supersonic surround sound or razor-sharp image. I'm perfectly content with respectable sound and image that I can watch on any TV. In other words, my expectations aren't so high that I'm going to stop watching movies if I can't get sound so strong that my walls get blown out (think of that THX sound test at the beginning of most DVDs).