I was recently at the local Sony outlet store and they had a bunch of BDP-S300 players for $250 (refurb). I almost pulled the trigger, but I thought about how often I use my DVD player. With the large amount of HD premiums I get from DirecTV, I almost never buy or rent DVDs.

I think once the prices of players hits $100-150 it will be tempting enough to buy one.


I actually watched a movie on Vudu this weekend in HD. I was expecting it to be not much better than the SD version, but I was pleasantly surprised. The movie wasn't what I would expect from HD DVD or Blu-Ray, but it was reasonably close to what I expect from DirecTV. It's pretty astonishing such quality can be streamed from the internet so rapidly. It will only get better.