Quote Originally Posted by BRANDONH
Yeah I am willing to take the chance.
If it were not for this combi player I would not have even bought into the HD format war and opted out of both completely. Now that combi players are coming available I expect that the format war is over and I predict there will be many more to come in the near future that will be a lot more affordable than the first players...par to the technology.
My thinking is that I if Its a movie I want now be it HDVD or Blu-Ray I can just grab it take it home and play it I wont have to just wish the format war will come to a close and then wait for that movie to come out on the type of player I have.

And which ever format wins out I will still be able to play all HD movies I already own.
Heck I still have a LD player and still use it.
This combi player is supposed to do anything any of single player on the marked can.
I expect to have some early adoption glitches with this unit just the nature of the beast I'm not usually an early adopter but this time I am going for it.
Sure there will be features I may or may not use but when I bought my receiver back in 2000 the 7.1 surround was not even available on most (affordable) DVD players even to date there are still too few 7.1 encoded DVD titles available.
So with my receiver I can still take advantage of future technology with out having to replace it as long as they do not go beyond 7.1 and as long as those players have analog 7.1 outputs.
So yeah still going to be the pincushion just cant help myself I must have this unit.
Sounds like love.
BTW I have a technics sl-d20 from 1982 (direct drive) still works great, and a slb-350 under the bed, both still work great.
I see yours has a retail of 699, did you pay that and where at?