All good points, Bruce. I'll watch an HD-DVD movie, but a variety to choose from is hard to find. I've added a PC to my living room and now can access all my SD DVDs burned to a hard drive. Watching them upscaled by the computer to 1080p on my 40" LCD is pretty sweet, and since I have a vast array to easily choose from I've been watching 5 or 6 SD DVDs to every one HD-DVD lately. They aren't releasing movies in HD fast enough to keep me satisfied.

I do know why they bother, though. Those of us that bought HDTVs and actually have an HD source for it have discovered the benefit of that higher resolution. I personally was delighted to find out there would be movies in HD coming out to take advantage of my display. The potential hasn't yet been met. Someone needs to invent a movie disk that has Bluray on one side and HD-DVD on the other. Then every movie that comes out should be released in both formats on the same disk, and everyone no matter what player they have can enjoy the movie.