Nick,
I am so with you on that as far as Sony goes!!!! It gets a little disgusting. I won't even get into how they calculate price point. Some kind of monkey math I think.
I would have prefered HD DVD but I got this Pioneer for free due to the fact that my wife is working on an advertising project for them right now. Well I shouldn't say free. She got it for me at a greatly reduced price without me even knowing. She brought it home and said, "They're a client so I feel a bit of patriotism in supporting them". Who am I to turn that down? lol.
