$198 too expensive? HD-DVD player on sale for $99 at Wal-mart

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@makingmusic476:

If you're talking about the extended editions of LotR, they won't be able to fit on a single Blu-ray disc with lossless audio either.

Also, many HD-DVD releases include Dolby TrueHD, a lossless format. Although a couple of high-profile releases have forgone lossless audio, their audio mixes have still been roundly praised and the difference between lossless audio and a well-done Dolby Digital Plus mix at 1.5 Mbps is entirely neglible if not non-existent.