Hard on the heels of Sony’s announcement that it’s delaying release of it PlayStation 3, Toshiba has announced that when it ships its new HD-DVD players this month there won’t be any software for them for at least three more weeks. HD-DVD and Sony-supported Blu-ray are the two new competing and incompatible high definition DVD formats.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Warner Home Video has pushed back the release dates of its initial slate of HD-DVD titles from March 28 to April 18. On that date, WBHV bring just three titles to market: Million Dollar Baby, The Phantom of the Opera and The Last Samurai. Studio execs say the delay is due to technical issues.

In the following weeks 17 other WB titles will be released in HD-DVD including Batman Begins, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The Matrix. Industry analysts believe that high definition media is going to catch on faster with consumers than standard definition DVD did in the late 1990s. Among other things, there’ll be a projected 25 million HDTVs in U.S. households by year’s end and those users will want HD images for their high-tech sets.