For some reason the previous HD-DVD thread appears to have disappeared from this site. So I decided to start a new one. HD-DVD is something that needs to be talked about. In case you don't know HD-DVD is the next DVD format. It uses blue lasers and higher compression to hold movies at 1920 x 1080 resolution. Six times as good as the 720 x 480 resolution of current SD-DVD. The DVD forum has approved most HD-DVD specs and Toshiba says they can release HD-DVD in late 2005. It will also have superior sound. Current SD-DVDs use CD quality sound. Far better then VHS but we have heard better. DVD-A discs have sound quality 10x as high as CDs for music. HD-DVD is set to have the same high quaility 24/96 LPCM soundtracks that DVD-A discs use for movies. HD-DVDs hold 30 gigabits per disc compared to the 8.5 gigabit capacity of SD-DVD. HD-DVD also uses VC-9 video compression capable of holding 3x as much info in a bit as the MPEG-2 of SD-DVD.