[reagan_fanatic]

I just said screw it and went out and bought an upconverting DVD player instead.

[TruthWillWin]

That’s what I’ll do when I get HD in a month or two. Much cheaper and almost as good as real HD DVD. Let the dualing formats fight it out then in a few years when the price is much lower and a wining format emerges that will be the time to go HD DVD. That is if DVD’s are not obsolete by then.

[RayChuang88]

While the picture from an upconverting DVD player looks good (make sure the player supports 1080p upconverting!), the overall sharpness is still inferior to a true high-definition HD-DVD or Blu-Ray disc, since the upconversion introduces weird effects if you see the small details on screen.

[SunkenCiv]

If I were in the market for a new player, that's what I'd do as well. Since I'm interested in participating in the Folding@Home thing, if I were to upgrade per se, I'd get a PS3 and therefore BluRay.

Ideally, hybrid (BluRay/HDDVD) players would be all that is available.