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I'm 5 minutes away to go and grab a DMP-BD30. Good timing as I just read two good comments on that model.
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Yep, and Best Buy just announced that Blu Ray will be their recommended hardware/software in the stores, however, they will keep some HDDVD stuff as well. I saw this as well this morning. Of course, Best Buy (at least around here) has been pushing Blu-Ray much harder since they came out. Prime floor space right inside the door. Larger and many times multiple displays for Blu-Ray. Even sales guys pushing it harder, so I can't imagine how they could do it MORE unless they decide to just unplug the HD-DVD display, box it up, and just display the non-operating merchandise on the shelves. Oh, and I read the report about NetFlix yesterday, and about 5 minutes later got my "We're Sorry" email from them since HD-DVD is my prefered format. At this point, I've got a few more HD-DVD movies to rent and I am dropping NetFlix. HD movies were why I went with them, and I am not jumping into Blu-Ray until they get their act together on standards and prices become more reasonable. I still like the upconversion on the HD-A2 I got for $12 (after I took 4 of my "free" movies to WalMart for store credit), so I am now just looking at it as though I have a good upconverting DVD player that also happens to play HD-DVD movies. 
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I'm 5 minutes away to go and grab a DMP-BD30. Good timing as I just read two good comments on that model. There is one bug that may be fixed with a firmware upgrade soon. Until it was pointed out to me, I never noticed it. If you have a good receiver, the bug can be corrected easilly. When playing uncompressed PCM tracks--which most Blu-ray disks have--the LFE is 4-5 dbs too low. If you just increase your LFE on your receiver or sub directly, you'll never notice it.
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Thanks for info. I had read that on this forum, but had forgotten about it.
My receiver allows me only to remove LFE by protocol, and only by 10db increments!
I guess I'll manage. But, again, thanks for the warning.
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Like I said, I didn't notice this fault until it was pointed out to me. PCM tracks still shook the room with their bass. And if the news is accurate, both Denon and Panasonic are working on a cure. The twice-as-expensive Denon Blu-ray player uses some of the same components as the Panasonic afterall. It also suffers from the same bug.
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I won't consider my HD-DVD player obsolete until Transformers gets released on BluRay.  I will probably buy a BD player but I'll keep the HD-DVD player to enjoy the few HD movies I have already bought. Hopefully, buy the time it breaks and I'm SOL to watch my HD-DVD movies, there will be yet another technolgy taking over. 3d maybe......
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If Paramount and Universal stay with HD-DVD, there will be a few more titles worth buying forsure. I too plan to keep my HD-A35 and my HD-DVD library until it gives up the ghost. That may be only 20 titles, but boy do they look good.
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I'm satisfied with the quality of DVD upconversion of my ps3. I can't speak of other standalone players though. I totally agree, I'm fairly amazed at how good it is actually as I didn't expect much from it for upscaling. The nice thing about the PS3 is that it updates itself over the net, which allows for some flexibility to adapt to future format changes.
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Regardless of how well a certain Blu-ray or HD-DVD player may upconvert, they are very slow compared to most stand-alone DVD players and it can be frustrating to navigate DVD's. I say keep them separate. Just one opinion, but I haven't noticed any slowness on SD DVDs with the PS3, but maybe I'm just lucky. If so, I won't complain. 
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I'll continue to use and enjoy my HD-DVD and will probably purchase some more titles if the price is right. Tthe Hell with BluRay for now.
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