90,000 HD DVD players sold in one weekend {Engadget HD}

Nov 9th 2007 1:40PM Tiger Direct had these players for $139. I bought one. These are not an entry level players, (remember the HD-A1), but the 2nd generation model. People were ready and able to give up their old VHS tapes when DVD first come out because of the picture qualty. I would think the player that is backwards compatible with standard DVD's will win with most comsumers since they have hundreds and hundreds of DVD and will not throw them away to upgrade to HD versions of the same DVD.