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Although I choose HD-DVD last year, I recently bought a Blu-ray player with the money I made selling about 100 DVD's on my work's inter-office classified ads. For those of you who haven't yet experienced it, high-def movies on a really big screen are amazing. Dare I say even better than most of the movies I see in local cinemas that are out of focus or suffer from poor sound management. DVD's can't compare even with the best upscaling available today. That being said, I actually hope HD-DVD dies a quick death so Blu-ray can prosper. I can't imagine having to down-load movies when I want to watch them in high-def. This format war needs to be resolved soon, and it looks more and more like Blu-ray will be the victor. I have about 15 HD-DVD's, and will be hard pressed to buy many more.

I sent my movie rebate in around November 15, so it was about 9 weeks (the form states 8-10 weeks).

I got Hulk, Italian Job, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Firewall and Darkman.

I really don't care to have any of these in HD, so I might try to swap a few of them at Walmart or something. The Hulk and Darkman have a sticker over the barcode, so I may keep the Hulk, and I know someone who wouldn't mind having Darkman... I liked the Italian ob, but have seen it way too many times to feel the need to have it in HD, Firewall wasn't bad, but I hear that the HD version isn't the best. I really did not like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I bet it is pretty colorful, but such an odd movie. Unlike most of the population, I am not much of a Johnny Depp fan.

My bluray's came in about 4-6 weeks. HD DVDs took about 8-10 weeks.

Yep that's how long it took for my blu-rays to show up, still waiting on the hd-dvds though...

i just got my free HD-DVD's 2 days ago. I bout my hd-dvd player friday before thanksgiving.

Well, today I took Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Firewall, and The Italian Job to Walmart to see if I could exchange them or something. Since I had no receipt I didn't expect much, but walked out with $73 on a Walmart gift card! I also sold Darkman to someone for $13. So if I take that off of the amount I paid for my player, I have an HD-DVD player with a copy of the Hulk for $17.88! Still a bargain! I still haven't opened the Hulk, but I might just keep it since the sound and picture is supposed to be really good for showing off HD.

Yes, that is definitely a bargain. Good job.

My prediction: No format will win, and combo HDDVD/BluRay Players will be a necessity.

I would think that if Sony does "completely win" this thing that they would include HD-DVD capabilities in their players, thus everything would bea "combo" player. It would be a way to get HD-DVD folks to jump onto the Blu-Ray hardware sooner without having to dump their movies. At least this is what I am hoping for. Not so much for the sake of saving the HD-DVD movies that I have, but because I didn't build enough shelves in my equipment rack to support 2 players.

Sony won't pay the licensing to incorporate HD-DVD technology into their own players. That doesn't mean other brands of dual-format players won't possibly become more prolific, just that they won't have the Sony badge.