I picked up a Toshiba D3 from Costco the day after the Toshiba announcement. The player was $79, including the HDMI cable, so I simply could not resist any longer. It came with two HD movies from the Bourne series, and I'm getting five more free through the mail.

I'd been thinking about getting an upconverting player anyway, and I thought I could try out HD-DVD at the same time. Then when I saw the HDMI cable was included (for which some people pay more than $50) I succumbed.

It has been wonderful watching my standard DVDs on this player - the upconverting is unreal.

The only downside to this player: it takes about 30 seconds to boot up, from power-off to drawer-open.

Also if you get one, make sure you update the firmware before you get too deeply into it. All the HD-DVD players have an ethernet port, so the update is easy and takes about 30 minutes.