It would be so incredibly nice for a dual format player to be that cheap. The real crying shame tho is that even if the player gets cheap...HDTVs are still pretty damn pricey. It's not like swapping out the old VCR for a dvd player. You either have to get both an HD format player and a nice looking TV...or neither. (ps3 doesn't count). But all this is pretty obvious...except to stupid people.

And that's another thing that bugs me. When/if HD becomes the new standard for movies/games/TV...their is still gonna be dumbasses out there that can't even set the damn things up right. Even when the world can rejoice in the awesome standard of HD, more than half the people sitting down to watch it are gonna have this really shit set-up. How people (and I know plenty but they insist I don't "mess with" their nice new TVs) can sit down in front of something that cost them upwards or thousands and have the blacks be more like grays, the skin tones of everyone look like cherries....I mean, Maybe I'm insane but that kinda shit just bugs me.

...or those people that have a real nice TV...7.1 surround....yet still hook all it up with composite cables. ugh.

Some people call me (and others out there like me) too picky. But then they always wanna watch movies at my place and just shit rainbows about how nice things look.