Toshiba HD-A1 HD-DVD Player
Best of Breed
In terms of current High Definition Players, The Toshiba HD-A1 is the best player for your money. The Picures are pristine and pop and the player does an excellent job of upconverting standard DVD's. <br /> <br />The only gripes i have is the somewhat slow load time (appx 60 seconds) <br /> <br />Rant: <br />The HD DVD format is far superior to blu-ray at this current juncture due to many problems with sony's inability to produce their single layer media with any yield consistency. Also they are using a less than efficient compression format that produces images that are not up to HD DVD standards. Why spend double with  blu ray when you can get a better image with HD-DVD.  Until blu ray they can show that they have fixed all of their problems, HD-DVD is your best bet.