Ladyfox

What I do not understand is why someone would go out and spend $500+ for the chance to buy their entire video library again. I mean, the only reason we hopped on the DVD wagon was due to the subtantial benefits it offered over Laserdisks and VHS.

With HD-DVD and/or Blu-Ray you get an admitted sharper picture than currently available on DVD with a few gew-gaws features. Beyond that, you get a whole pile of downsides:

a. Have to go out and buy the same film again to take advantage of the sharper picture and other features. Hello quadruple-dipping! :(

b. All movies currently projected to come out over the next few months are already available on DVD at a much lower price point.

c. Provides a very marginal improvement in image quality compared to other up-converting DVD players currently available at much lower price points.

d. The loss of control over video quality output in the near future (this could be removed providing someone creates a workaround that will not result in the one-way trip to Club Fed).

Or is there something I'm missing here beyond the "pretty picture" aspect?

I did some digging and was surprised to see that no support for Rainlendar was present. Oh well, guess I'll have to just keep manually putting the stuff in. -_-