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Well......

..... up until Toshiba and Wally World decided to lower the price of entry to under $200 (my threshold for plunging into a format war) I was something of a fencesitter (Yawn!!!) myself. My Oppo upsmapled regular DVD well enough to make me happy.

BUT, they did, and I bought into HD-DVD. The high price of movies? Well, buying from Amazon's "new & used" has gotten me HD movies for less than their regular DVD counterparts. And once I saw "Planet Earth in high-def I was convinced. It's the future man. Will it win the format war? Who knows. Do I care. At under two bills not really - though I'd like it to. (But I'm covered as my son has a new PS3 - so BlueRay could be in my future too.)

Which ever (if either) format wins it still comes down to the picture quality - and a good high-def picture beats upsampled like a redheaded stepchild. (Teresa, it's the differece between a good SACD and upsampled CD, just to put it in terms so you know what I'm talking about.)


John Crossett

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