Indeed it was a banner year here at Engadget -- completely thanks to you, of course. Google may have its Zeitgeist, but we figured we could at least cap things off with a few lists of the most well-read posts of 2007 (and a few stats, to boot). See you in 2008!

Top 20 most trafficked posts of 2007 (in order)

1. LCD Vs Plasma in 2007
2. Let Engadget trick out your home theater
3. Hackers discover HD DVD and Blu-ray "processing key" -- all HD titles now exposed
4. Details about DirecTV's new HDTV channels continue to emerge
5. DirecTV to carry 100 National HD Channels in 2007
6. Apple TV and HD quality: It's not the hardware
7. Blu-ray players get a new standard set of features this October
8. What it takes to produce an HD newscast
9. Lord of the Rings HD DVD and Blu-ray details
10. No Dolby TrueHD or DTS HD for PS3 owners? -- kind of
11. Toshiba HD-A2 HD DVD player: $100, this Friday, Wal-Mart
12. Toshiba HD-A20 review
    
13. How to buy a Toshiba HD-A3 for $87
14. 90,000 HD DVD players sold in one weekend
15. DirecTV's new HD channels to launch on the 19th?
16. How to run power to a wall mounted TV
17. DirecTV 10 launched successfully, gears up for September action
18. Are you ready for DirecTV's new HD channels?
19. HDMI vs. component
20. Sharp's new Aquos lineup

Click on for a few more stats after the break.

Considering that some retailers are already implementing larger floor displays for HD DVD / Blu-ray discs, and the wee fact that we've already got a combo player out on the market to appease the fence-sitters, we suppose it follows logic that an off-the-wall group be formed to push the formats and their all too controversial features into public acceptance. The recently-formed Media Experience Trade Association (META) is hoping to "improve consumer acceptance of emerging formats" by slapping "META Seals" onto discs that clearly inform consumers of certain usability benchmarks and by "creating digital media standards" that would help the faltering iHD Advanced Navigation and BD-Java features blossom. Interestingly, the group's purpose is to simplify things and make the user "feel less intimidated," but we're not so sure that tossing extra labels and probably a few hidden dollars in the pricetag to compensate for "their work" is the best approach. Still, it looks like yet another tag will be hitting high-definition discs "by the end of 2007" if this all pans out, but if we end up getting a bit more functionality in our next-generation flicks, we won't grumble too much.