Crikey, I thought I was the only one with Beta machines still
I have two of them as audio recorders to mix down from my multi-track. They work great for that.

Yamaha just released a DVD player that supports both SACD and DVDA as well as doing progressive scan with the highly touted Faroujda processor. You can see it on my website here:
http://www.audioshop.on.ca/newproducts.htm

HDCD is now a Microsoft format! They purchased it from Pacific Microsonics a while back. Makes me wonder what Microsoft has in mind for the format.