Richard, I confess that while I understand the principles of these technologies I have no hope of keeping up with the detail. But two thoughts occur to me.
First, I hope that the final decision will be of greatest benefit to the community at large and not just to the stock-holders of Microsoft.
Second, as this is US led, I hope that the US are not leading us towards another Old-World/New World standards division as has been seen in the NTSC/PAL/SECAM farraginous fiasco.