[Cash @ Nov 7th 2007 1:26PM]

Agreed... I picked mine up on Monday because my local Walmart's shipment was late, and even though they marked the price up a whole dollar it was still going for under 100 bones. I didn't see people buying them myself, but I will say the difference in stock on HD-DVD endcap between Friday morning and Monday afternoon when I finally got mine was pretty telling. What had been a previously full rack was now missing all it's copies of Transformers, and all but a handful of Heroes Season 1, as well as the under 20 bucks titles like Borne Supremacy, The Italian Job, The Mummy and Batman Begins. Lucky for me, there was still one copy left of the Planet Earth series, which looks unfreakin' believable on my 65" 1080i TV. Even on a 2 year old midrange 5.1 setup, the difference of the higher audio bitrate really stands out compared to regular DVD's too.

I just wish those tools at the ACCS or CCS or whatever their group is called would pull the 'no upconvert over component cables' restriction and stop punishing those of us who were the first to drink the HiDef KoolAid. Like it's my fault HDMI wasn't even a concept when my set was built. Well whatever... I should be getting my 5 free movies in the mail either right before or right after Christmas anyway so that'll shut me up somewhat.