I have both now and I have to say that right now the movies that we have, HD DVD looks better. I got the A2 when I was down in PA. That four free movie deal plus the five from Toshiba was too hard to pass up. Our set is a 55" Sony SXRD 1080p.
What surprised me was my wife. I put Batman Begins in (believe it or not she picked it out) and there was a 'commercial' for HD DVD and all the 'cool' interactive menus. I hit skip and she got ticked and said "Hey that was interesting, I was watching that!" and actually made me start the disc over. She was asking why the Blu-ray player didn't have that. I told her it does to an extent, but the 'infomercial' bowled her over.
Then the WB logo came up. I didn't even have to ask her, she said she didn't know why, but eveything just 'looks better'. I have to say I agree so far, but I also don't have a ton of BD flicks right now either. Both formats are incredible compared to SDVD that is a definite. I can say now though that feeding a 1080p set with a 1080i signal is not inferior to a 1080p player, at least not from what I have seen so far.
Next year I'll probably get a 1080p HD DVD player but mainly for the reon chip and its better upconverting abilities. The A2 will move to the bedroom so we can watch high def movies up there. Right now we're stuck at 480p upstairs
