Thousands Ask Warner To Save HD-DVD

In the wake of the big companies shifting their support around for either one HD format or another, grassroots efforts are starting to show up on the web.
In an effort to communicate to Warner Bros. "that the consumer has not 'clearly' chosen Blu-Ray," someone started a petition at Petition Online on January 5 requesting the studio bring back support for the format. As of the time of this post, almost 14,000 people have signed the 'Save HD-DVD' petition. To quote in it's entirety:

Dear High Def movie fans, I'm starting this petition in order to support HD-DVD and hopefully save it, and to show Warner Brothers that the consumer has not "clearly" chosen Blu-Ray. Warner Brothers switched to Blu-Ray exclusive claiming that its the best thing for the consumer, but how about all the consumers that bought HD-DVD movies and hardware for the holidays, or all the loyal HD-DVD fans like myself that own Warner HD-DVDs? Warner just screwed them all.

HD-DVD is more alive than ever, with cheaper hardware prices, and better technological capabilities, both of which are better for the consumer. I guess Warner feel higher prices and less features are better. The only thing Blu-Ray has going for it is 20GB of extra storage space, and a big name like Sony backing it up. HD-DVD on the other hand has PIP, web-enabled features, in movie menus, and much more. And if extra space is needed, use another disc, big deal.

So please, sign this petition, and lets get as many votes as we can so we can hopefully change Warner's mind to return to being format neutral, or go HD-DVD exclusive. This would also show the remaining HD-DVD exclusive studios, Universal & Paramount, that HD-DVD still has supporters, thus they shouldn't switch to Blu-Ray. We have a chance to save a superior format from collapsing under the weight of the greedy Sony corporation and its inferior Blu-Ray format, let's do it!

Blu-ray fans have their own petitions going, the most notable being 'Let HD-DVD Die' which has collected 5,540 signatures so far.