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Sure, but the $300 DVD player I bought in 1997 still plays every DVD I put in it (and all the special features too). That's the kind of performance I want out of a Blu-ray player.

I think that's where a lot of people are: $300 seems to be the magic price point. At this point, I could probably stomach a profile 1.1 player at that price, but I just hate the fact that I could spend $300 on an HDM player and not truly be future proof.

Appreciate your opinion, but I would rather let the consumer decide that. I would buy TWBB on HD-DVD in a heartbeat. Really, I doubt very much that Blu will be harmed at all if the remaining HD studios released everything they have officially announced.

Glad to hear it? Why is that? Why would you be opposed to a studio releasing a title on HD-DVD?

These are the only two I care about...especially the first one. I care about There Will Be Blood too but that one is probably too far off.

What I'm really interested in is how much longer Universal, Paramount, etc., will release films in HD-DVD.

I can understand movie studios deciding not to release anymore HD-DVD product. But to pull all remaining product? Come on! I hope it isn't true. I mean, I (along with a lot of other HD-DVD owners I'm sure) are willing to buy HD-DVDs so long as we have a player that works.

I'm pretty much in the same boat, Paul. I was planning on going Blu this fall at the latest, and before that if an affordable 2.0 player comes out. But if Toshiba is really going to pull the plug on HD-DVD, then I can't see myself buying any discs (HD or SD) between now and fall.

I would go out and buy a BR player immediately if they released any of the films in categories 1 or 3.

Funny you mention Cars...we were just the SD-DVD version on our HD-DVD player and we were commenting how amazing it looked.

Man, am I glad I didn't have an emotional investment in either side! I just want my movies in HD at a reasonable price...something I've had with HD-DVD for the past 3 months and hope to have with Bluray in the future.

It will be interesting to see. I think there's still a small, perhaps not insignificant risk, that Bluray might not ever reach the levels of adoption that SD-DVD did. I would bet that Sony still has a long way to go to turn a profit on Bluray, and that starts with getting an affordable player...

So I wonder how long consumers will still be able to purchase HD-DVDs? I'd really like to get Jesse James (one of my favorite films last year) on HD-DVD, but now I'm wondering if Warner will even bother releasing it. David: thanks for your comments and suggestions. PS3 just isn't desirable...

While I'm sad to see HD-DVD go (I bought an A2 in October and have since bought about 30 titles) I look forward to getting a Bluray player. But I won't be buying one until they are below $300 and will be able to play all the special features on a disc. Since i don't see that happening anytime...

And it's all great for the customer. Think of how many people will now be enjoying low cost, hi def DVD media for years thanks to Wal-Mart's sale today. Bill Hunt, and others, need to rethink whether this "war" is really all that bad for the consumer.

I bet Toshiba/Universal/Paramount/Dreamworks/Wal Mart have more tricks up their sleaves. We only found out about this on Thursday. Who knows what else we might find out next week or the week after?

Some simple math: IF 100,000 A2s are sold today, that should translate into the sale of roughly an additional 100,000 (minimum) software HD-DVD sales per month, right? Which would be 25,000 per week. So what does that do to the weekly sales numbers?

Bill Hunt's spin on the $99 player: http://www.thedigitalbits.com/#mytwocents

Uh, Sanjay, when the "normal retail price" is already under $200, it's not unheard of for a company like Wal Mart to start offering super discounts on it around the Christmas shopping season, EDIT: especially if it's a potentially hot item like HD-DVD with a big upside in the potential sales...

I bet Wal Mart has just as much to do with this as Toshiba.

I'm with you. I just bought an HD-A2 because the price was $200, which is $100 less than I paid for my first SD-DVD in 1997. I figure that even if Blu Ray wins, I can eventually get a stand alone Blu Ray player for $200 or less, and in the end I've only spent $400 on players, which might not...

If this were politics, Bill would be known as a Blu-Ray partisan. Disappoints me, because I used to enjoy his columns so much.

Assuming they each cost 2.50 to make, and I am selling them for $5 each, it would take me about 8.5 days to net $1,500 selling the Angus burgers, so I might accept their money if I can start making Angus burgers again in 8.5 days. Sound familiar? :)