Time to sell my dvd collection?

if you think the studios have alreadt invested in hd mastering for their films...think again. baby steps on some....up conversions on those which are probably not going to look any better in hd.....some won't make it to the new discs at all.....if it lost money on standard dvd, that's all she wrote.

Elizabeth,

I am somewhat in your camp. I have been buying up all the Superbit DVD's which my local Blockbuster has been dumping for $9.99. I just bought a new Meridian G98 DH, which really is a step up even from my Esoteric DV-50s.... I might buy a HD DVD (I pesrsonally think Blu Ray is the better format IMHO) but am in no rush to pay for the movies, and until their are rented by Netflix, will sit back and enjoy my new DVD's and player...

The reason the new HD formats will take over is simple, everyone will have an HDTV in the next 5 years. The reason DVD-A and SACD didnt win people over is because you have to spend a pretty penny to achieve the requirements to play the disks. The mass public will buy the new tv's. Only audiophiles buy the hi-res disks. Its really that simple.

In the end, I think the extra space on the new disks will benefit sound quality to a greater extent than the video. DVD has a good pic, it does get better in HD, but uncompressed sound, the way the sound engineer intended will be incredible. We may have to wait a few years to sort it all out, but it will survive and thrive.

I agree with you Holeneck - HD will take over within some time (let's agree to look back at this thread and laugh on 2 May, 2011), but the process will be painful thanks again to Sony.
Elcasette, Beta, SACD - how many times do they need to learn the same lesson? As usual, early adopters will get burned when everything shakes out but that's the norm for an early adopter.
Even most HDTV's today don't have the 1080p required to use everything an HD player can offer.
But back to the original question, with upconverting DVD players available now, if you like what you've got, just keep it unless there's a have-to-have in HD like Cream, Royal Albert Hall, May '05 with uncompressed audio and video.