[TheMoose]

Originally Posted by PRO-630HD

HDDVD did not launch in Mar. 2006 it was in April 18 2006. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060317-6405.html

I figured the launch by the first release of a hd-dvd player, that was March 31st, 2006 in Japan according to Wikipedia.