Toshiba HD-A1 HD-DVD Player
Lock-ups, poorly mastered discs, format already maxed out, 1080i only... Go Blu Ray!
I returned this player because of frequent lock ups and other technical limitations.  I saw what I wanted to see: a few nice pictures here and there when the player didn't take almost 2 minutes to load the movie. Some of the HD-DVD movies weren't noticeably better than the DVD.  I just couldn't see keeping this player when the format is doomed to die. I don't feel like making two different collections of incompatable movies also!!     I'm going with Blu Ray since Blu Ray is not only superior, Blu Ray has the support of 90% of the studios and soon 100% of the studios, plus 50GB Blu Ray discs will ensure the highest quality on long movies such as Lord of the Rings.  Blu Ray has more bandwidth, much more storage (will have 100 and 200 GB discs in a couple years).  There are also other technical advantages in terms of bandwidth available to both audio and video.  Further, the Blu Ray players are coming in at 2.0X with further increases coming.  HD-DVD is just too limited and already had shortcomings that cannot be overcome in the future.  HD-DVD is DOA!!     I urge early adopters to have self control and support only one format.  Blu Ray will win, and rightfully so, it is the superior quality format.