HD-DVD is Dead, Long Live HD-DVD!

So, if you've looked at my DVD Collection lately, you may have noticed that I now have a couple HD-DVD discs that I recently acquired.  Before I become known as The King of Dead Formats (yes, I own a LaserDisc player), I should explain.

My brother-in-law got the Xbox 360 player soon after it became available, and he was pretty happy with it.  However, after Toshiba announced it was dropping the HD-DVD format (due in large part to Sony essentially buying off the remaining studios), the HD-DVD player essentially became a brick (or a decent upscaling DVD player).

He tried once before to give it to me, give it away, mind you, and I refused, because I had no need for it.  When he couldn't sell it at a garage sale, I decided to take it off his hands.

So I felt it wasn't worth having unless I had a (small) handful of movies worth watching.  So you'll notice that I now have the following HD-DVD titles:

• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Top Gun
• Army of Darkness (of course)
• Rattle & Hum (this is on order, I don't have it as of yet)

I'm thinking about buying a PS3 later this year, so maybe I'll start buying Blu-Ray discs eventually.  But we'll see.