I bought a Toshibia HD player at Walmart for $98 (early black Friday special) and 3 DVDs (Batman Begins, Transformers, and 300)
The quality on Transformers was not that hot. The HD player only came with component cables, so I went back to Walmart and bought a HDMI for the TV quality and a Optical cable for the surround sound.
I watched Batman Begins with the new setup. The video and sound quality was better if not the same as the movie quality.
I did watch the movie 300, I wish the quality of this was better. I guess not all movies are made in HD, but would figured that this should have been. I know in the movie theater this wasn't as great either, but I figured then it was the movie screen and projector.
I should compare the new setup to the Transformers movie later to see how much of an improvement there was.
Now, there is some good reason why I went with HD-DVD vs Blue Ray, but first my rant on SONY:
<rant>I hate SONY with their proprietary standards, they tried the same thing with their memory stick vs SD cards. BTW, PlayStation (1,2,3) consoles are usually a pile of cheap flimsy hardware that easily fails and over heats. </rant>
Places like K-Mart are getting rid of their Blue-Ray, since sales are low. Meanwhile, at Walmart you can buy a cheap HD player under $100. Just spend another $50 on the cables and you have one really nice kick ass system.
The majority of the movie industry is going to back HD, except for SONY. The quaility of the games of XBox 360 vs. PS3 has already been debated and won by Microsoft's XBox 360. The games just suck on the PS3.
