Now is certainly the wrong time to buy then. HDCP copy protection is a lot firmer than it was a few years ago, but I wouldn't count on anything lasting. The HDCP really pisses me off, and is a great example of why DRM is a horrible thing that we should revolt against. I own a lovely LCD, which wasn't meant to be an HDTV, but has component inputs. If I want to buy an upconverting DVD player, it has to be hacked to even allow HD resolutions on the component outputs because they don't have DRM on them. This is from a non-HD source, upconverted and output over analog outputs. Samsung (a company I'm becoming more and more fond of by the day) is currently beind sued for making my DVD player.

Thankfully, the old HDTVs don't have DRM on them, so I'm safe for a bit.

Another example of why HDCP is so great.

Matthew