Ken,
I know you were interested in the LG (I think its LG) "one player to rule them all" that spins BRD and HDDVD. There a review in this months sound and vision. The short version is the player is an excellent BRD player and image quality on HDDVD is excellent but the player ignores HDDVDs menus and extras and gives you a generic chapter list for discs. I guess this has to do with it not fully supporting whatever XML or other language the HDDVD menus are written in. Anyway the review goes on to say that the HDMI out supports 1080P but at 24 or 30fps not 60. Many displays wont do 1080p/24. And I think there were some audio issues as well.

So it seems the player has some flaws- but if you dont care about HDDVD menus and dolbytrue HD audio then I think this is the ticket. My take: a decent 1.0 effort by LG. They will surely make it better and Id wait for v 2.0.


Btw- totally shifting gears here- Mark, you are so right about 24fps playback. I am playing back at 48fps. And WOW. The movement is so much more fluid. I cant go back.

Btwx2- I watched Empire Strikes out- I mean Back wink last night- yes lowly SD from the Kscape. Goes into my processor via component even because the Kscape HDMI has issues when its @480i out. You know what- it was a lot more watchable than I feared. What I have discovered is if I want to watch something SD, I must not watch something HD first. If I do, its over. Also having a good processor helps. The noise reduction features in the CII are very good IMHO.


best regards,
Jerry

Best regards,
Jerry
Main System: 861v6, DSP8000s in corners, DSP7000s Center and Sides, 1-9 humans.