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I just saw HDTV on a 50" Sony 1080p plasma. To be perfectly honest, my response was that the picture on my 60" RPTV is really fantastic. I paid a lot for my Pioneer Elite 610HD, but the investment is well worth it when U57 really doesn't look that much better than regular DVD. I just wasn't...

With the deep discounts I'm seeing on Amazon, and the positive news I'm reading on the Toshiba firmware upgrades, I may bite for Christmas. I honestly cannot justify blueray at those prices, and I hope they lose for that reason alone.

That's just dumb, and consumers are much smarter these days. These guys need to come up with compelling reasons to upgrade, plain and simple. I'm now on my third "reference quality" DVD player, and I see no point in getting rid of it until it breaks. I can make it real simple for you - you...

The one surefire way to have gotten me to adopt a high def format would have been if the DVDs were backwards compatible with present DVD players. If I could acquire the discs and use them now in SD, and then once I have enough titles upgrade my player, that would have been awesome. Or perhaps...

I think manufacturers need to realise that unlike LD and VHS, DVD is already a great product. If they want us to adopt something else, then they need to make a compelling argument. Merely better picture quality simply isn't enough.

I haven't bothered to jump into either format, because I simply don't have a compelling reason to do so, even at $500. Regular DVD is fine for me, and I'm not about to replace my current 350 title collection. Further, a crappy movie is still a crappy movie in HD. The first run of titles is...