Living La Vida HD

I got a "Sceptre."

It sounds royal, and powerful, and British. It must be good, eh?

My biggest problem now is that my stupid DVD player that I bought 5 years ago does not have an HDMI hook-up, so watching DVDs on my new TV after watching a show in HD is like watching shit. (I actually love my little home theatre system. Its just inadequate now... not unlike a middle-aged guy with ED.) Im going to pick up an S-Video cord today to improve that, but I am unsure if that will satisfy me. Once you try the HD, you need it more and more.

Options to satisfy my cravings will be:

1) Buy a laptop a little earlier than planned and use it as an HD player. This will be beneficial because I can download shows in uncompressed HD from the Internets (just about everything worth watching gets posted that way now).

2) Buy a new DVD player/stereo/receiver with the HDMI port. This may be a bit of a waste because if it does not play HD DVDs then Im not improving my media quality- Im just maxing out what it can do. Not sure of Id be adding enough value to be worth it. Must investigate further.

3) Bite the bullet and choose sides in the format war. I could buy an HD DVD or Blue Ray player, but I would probably go with the HD DVD. If its good enough for Microsoft and the porn industry...
Of course, after all of this is settled, I will then have to taylor my computer upgrades to it. Ive got a lot of thinking to do!