Denon's new Blu-Ray player

What are we waiting for?
I got on the train and bought the Sony BDP-s300. It is cheap and the picture quality is so much better than the SD DVD. If you want the HD formats to continue support them and buy a player. 400 bucks is not unreasonable for the huge gain in picture and sound quality. If you want the HD formats to die and can live with SD DVD then do nothing.
Knowing how good the HD stuff is why wait?

I agree. Yes, I just picked up a used Blu-Ray player and the picture is stunning. This is a format worth investing in.

09-27-07: Newbie13
Waiting 4 years is denying yourself 4 years of a better picture.
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09-28-07: Flrnlamb
I pesonally don't get people "waiting" here. I mean, for a couple/few hundo's, you can have HD! What's up?
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And yet, by buying a scaler, a) I don't end up on the wrong side of a format war and b) I don't have to rebuy the movies that I already own.

I don't intend to rain on anybody else's parade, that's just the choice that I've made.

Compared to what many of us haved paid for audio and HT gear, buying players in BOTH formats is not that expensive. You can get a Toshiba HD A2 and Sony 300 for about $700 combined. Then sign up for both formats at Netflix and you don't have to invest heavily in the software either.

I have HD cable and a DVR, and a Toshiba HD D2 (same as A2 but from Costco w/included HDMI cable). In spite of these HD programming options, whenever I get an HD DVD from Netflix, it's a real treat with the better picture, lack of pixelation on fast action, and sound quality. Easily worth the $250 if I never buy an HD disk myself.

I definitely don't intend to buy another std. def. DVD. I pass them up at $5-6 at Sam's and Costco all the time now.

Agreed. As above, you can get into both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray for less than the cost of what most 'goners pay for a good power cord.