Not for $88
LOL - yeah, you’d have to pay an additional $10.88 for the HD DVD player at Wal-Mart! :-) No, seriously, I wasn’t trying to knock on the S53, but just alert other readers that while the S53 might be passable, there are better players around the same price or even lower, like the HDMI-equipped Toshiba SD-K860 which retails for $79 and can be found even cheaper. A great site for objective evaluations of DVD players is the DVD Shootout at the Secrets of Home Theater web site - lots of information concisely presented, without getting so uber-geeky (like at the AVS forums) that you pull out your hair.