I am still only "out" $12 on the player (after getting rid of 4 of the 5 the "rebate" movies) and about another $60 in movies I bought, but 2 of those are combo DVD/HD-DVD movies, and my wife was going to buy them on straight DVD, which I got the combo ones for about $2 more. And of course I bought Transformers. The others in my collection were free (thanks to CV), so for about $72 I have a great upconverting player that also plays HD-DVD AND I have 17 movies! I don't consider myself a loser in this whole experience. What will stink is when I can afford to grab a Blu-Ray player (when they are more standardized as well) and it won't play HD-DVD like we all know Sony will put into their specs for most future players, and then I would have to have 2 players to watch movies. At that point, the HD-DVD will probably be given away with the movies.
