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I also have a 5 year old CRT HDTV and with that as the display it's pretty difficult to tell the difference. It can't resolve the full 1920X1080 image, more like 1400X900, plus its a 5 year old CRT so the image has softened a bit anyway. You can still tell a significant difference between either and DVD though.

I'm returning the BluRay player, not because of the format, I think one of the subsequent players will probably make it a wash with HD DVD. Toshiba just created a better Gen1 player, and it seems content is somewhat more available on HD DVD today. Having said all that, I'll probably get one of the new BluRay players once they come out, as long as the PQ gets fixed. I don't think there is a whit of difference in either formats potential, I'd guess a well designed player will fundementally output the same PQ on the same movie regardless, assuming both are using one of the modern compression schemes.

I just can't justify $500 more for BluRay, if PQ was the same then I could justify it, but its not. Give it a few months and maybe that changes.]]>Aug 3rd 2006 7:41PM