Keeping a player, when you already have a collection makes sense. I still, for example, have friends with lovingly maintained Betamax and Laser Disc players. But, like you, they already had large collections. The only ‘practical’ reason I can see to buy an HD-DVD player today would be if I already had a large library and I wanted to keep a spare player for the day when my original player bough the farm.

Steven

You sir, are incorrect. They are an excellent, PRACTICAL, purchase for those of us who don’t want to spend hundreds of dollars for an incomplete technology (aka Blu-ray 2.x). Those of us who want to keep our hundreds of SDVD’s and watch them via up-conversion.

Sounds like your neighbor is a practical person.