I'm having a hard time agreeing with Mark_H, although I respect his position. Playback of SD DVD's on my Toshiba HD player passing through a decent scaler to the Sony Ruby projected onto a 132" screen will give a spectacular picture. HD DVD's are better, but I find myself at the HD shelves at Best Buy trying to decide whether or not to buy additional HD DVD's. New releases are generally twice the price of the SD sibling. In most cases, with the lame titles being released, I cannot justify spending twice as much money for a very average film.

When SD DVD was ramping up, the difference in picture quality was so substantial that I found myself buying DVD's every week. Nowadays, I probably buy two a month. I definitely hope that the HD format is successful, I would even be willing to buy two players if the format war cannot be resolved, as long as I feel that there is a value to doing so. Just my two cents.

Rudy

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