My normal DVD player that is about 9 years old started to crapped out and made alot of my disks skip, and I just could not see replacing it with another old style player. Best Buy had a sale on their Insignia brand player for about $249, so I just got my first 1080p Blu-Ray player about two weeks ago. Thing is, I still don't own any Blu-Ray titles yet. The price and selection of films is kind of keeping me from doing that. I'm kind of sad that I got the Blade Runner 5 dvd set in normal DVD format last year, but what can you do. I don't realy feel like re-buying something like that so soon. The new Blu-Ray unit plays my old normal format DVD collection just fine, and I feel I can ease into the new Blu-Ray format slowly as titles I feel I would enjoy much more in 1080p come out. My local video store does have a small selection of titles in Blu-Ray, so I have been able to see how improved the format looks on some films, and I must say that I am very impressed. To bad the remastard Star Trek came out in the now quickly fading HD format, or that would have been my first Blu-Ray media items to buy. I've had a HD T.V. for about 4 years now that I used to use for digital Dish Network.