Let me give a bit of advice as an HD-DVD owner myself....Both you and I along with thousands of others, made a choice to buy into an early technology, KNOWING that there was another format that could win. No matter what some people, and possibly yourself may think, Toshiba and HD-DVD owe you nothing, you bought their products, they work perfectly fine. That being said, I don't see Dual players dropping in price any time soon, seeing how they are in such high demand now that the format was is over, and all the HD-DVD people are looking to buy these. If you already have an HD-DVD player, why bother getting a dual player anyway? Keep it, just buy a cheap blu-ray player, (lowest is about $350) and use them both. A dual player wont cost you any less than $700 right now, for sure will change sometime in the future though.