Now, why would you buy a HD/DVD player when Bluray won that war?
Well this was a few years ago, you see, at a time when the battle of Bluray vs. HD/DVD had not been decided yet (or at least as far as I knew). I already had a PS3, which had me covered on the Bluray front, but I was worried about some movies going exclusively to HD/DVD -- which turned out to be unfounded for two reasons (obvious reasons in hindsight).
1) PS3 plays HD/DVDs
2) HD/DVD was going the way of BetaMax.
I've made the best of my unfortunate investment though. Whenever I watch regular DVDs, I watch them on my HD/DVD player (which upconverts nicely) and the few HD/DVD titles I have on my shelf -- this spares me some wear and tear on my precious PS3. Having both machines also showed without a doubt that Bluray was the suprerior format. I bought "300" on Bluray, but a free copy was bundled with the HD/DVD player that I bought. I watched both on their respective machines. Bluray kicked its ass up and down and sideways.
