Any of the Toshiba players are worth it as great upconverting players. If you can get discs for under $10, I'd stock up... especially on HD exclusive catalog titles that may be as much as a year away on Blu. Where is it you're finding HD discs for those prices?

Also, if/when you get an HD-Tivo, making HD backups on regular DVD-R discs is the easiest thing in the world... this is my main reason for holding on to my HD-A2 player since I already have Blu as well. BluRay has a standard for HD on regular DVD-R but it requires transcoding to AVC and only supports 1440x1080 or 1920x1080, not 1280x720, so the discs actually hold less than 1280x720 in MPEG2.