You also get a decent return on your investment by keeping the discs and enjoying them for many years.

I really can't argue with this. I could have dumped my small LD collection early in the days of DVD when it still had some value, but I got much more value out of popping one in from time to time and watching it. LD holds up alright and sounds amazing. Not to mention there are still movies and extras not on DVD.

I think holding on to an HD DVD collection is very low risk. One, players will last a long time. Two, players will be made for some time. I bet even if Toshiba decided to stop making them they would make combo BD/HD DVD players instead. Complete support for the format is not going to die overnight and its not like the BD versions look any better. 10 years from now the 1080p HD DVDs are still going to look pretty nice. I really doubt 4k video is coming along very quickly to wipe out Blu-ray.

welcome to the club.

People are making me laugh. I swear it is like all HD DVD players are going to become inactive after the weekend. Why the hell would you watch the SD version when you own a perfectly good HD DVD player. If your that paranoid, buy that LG combo player that appears to be a good BD and good HD DVD player and store your current player in case of an emergency. Good grief, there is no upgrade in buying the BD, so why do so - the only benefit it will have is being a currently supported media - the picture and sound and extras will be the same - or in some cases worse.

Truth.

To me, it makes some sense to trade up now instead of later.

Sure the discs still work, but if one or both of my machines go down for the count, I won't want to spend money on fixing them or buy another one. So if that were to happen say 2 years from now, what would I be able to get for my no longer usable HD DVD's? Probably not as much as I can right now.

I'm not saying people should gut their collection right now, but if people want to trade up, the time is now and not later IMO.

I hope you're correct. I got burned with a Samsung upconvert DVD player that I got on Christmas '06, which died 6 months later. I'm hoping my A2 will last for many years to come. (I also bought the Best Buy 2-year warranty, just i n case.)

My first DVD player was the Toshiba SD-1600, which I bought in November 2000. Paid $180 I believe.

Within 2 years it was exhibiting some quirks like random freezes on pristine discs that made me replace it. I also had an SD-1700 at one point, and while it wasn't my primary player, it still didn't stay flawless for more than a couple years.

I hope it's not the same with my Tosh HD players.

I've bought way more Toshiba CE than any other brand over the last decade, including my first 16:9 display, but I have never been really super-impressed with their disc players in the long run.

I got a Toshiba back in 2000 (don't know the model number, but it has a try that can hold two discs). Never had a single problem with it, and it still works fine to this day. Of course, at this point it's a backup of a backup, but never had a single issue. It's mainly used by my parents now.

It really isn't going to be a problem.
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