My wife and I do it the smart way and go stand in line at one of our local big box stores at 5:30am (this year Futurshop) for the boxing day sale and picked up a Samsung BD P1400 BluRay player and some Nintendo DS games for the kids. We then went to Zellers and picked up an Nintendo Wii bundle deal for cheep so now we have both a HD DVD and BluRay player

The Wii is by far the best game console in my opinion, the interactive controllers are the best.