Re: HD or Blue Ray?
Ultimately, Kaz, I'd say just go with whatever you feel like.
While the big push has been for everything to go Blue Ray, I've hear from electronics people that there really isn't the huge difference, like the advertisements would lead you to believe.
A few people I know, all electronics department sales employees, actually took two identical top end HD TVs, put them side by side, connected one to an HD DVD player, and one to a Blue Ray player. They then proceeded to take two copies of the exact same movie, one HD DVD, the other Blue Ray, and put them in, and ran the exact same scene, at the exact same time, on both. There was no difference.
Before anyone starts griping about that test, keep in mind that the ones doing the test were people who have to know what they're talking about in regards to such systems as part of their jobs.