In fact, I'm starting to eye the Xbox, and I fear I'll give in when The Two Towers is released.

Okay. That's a non sequitur to me. Explain.

And I'm definitely looking forward to true HD resolutions from the consoles.

I was under the impression that the XBox already did that. I keep meaning to borrow someone's XBox and hook it up to my HDTV to see, but that'd mean (1)buying the XBox's component video cable, and (2)getting up off my fat ass.