Posted 02/22/2008 at 09:37:29pm

...that is, if you can get them for $79.99 at Costco, etc. They make pretty good upscaling players for regular DVDs and it'll play HD-DVDs which will be going for peanuts in a few months. Buy the HD-DVDs, rip them to your hard drive, and re-record them when cheap Blu-Ray recorders come out. OTOH, Sony and Panasonic can go pound sand if they think I'm going to pay $400 for a Blu-Ray player. Wide screen DVD quality is sufficient for me, anyway. Since they're the victors, I'll just wait and let the dust settle on their expensive boxes. A Blu-Ray player will be on my shopping list when it hits $99, and Blu-Ray DVDs are no more expensive than regular DVDs...