With the DLP, you may end up being better off with the 970's MediaTek chip than the 971's Faroudja, anyway (or at least just as well off). I look forward to reading your impressions of the 970's SACD. Di you have any DVD-Audio discs as well?

Last I heard, LG had announced plans to pursue a combination HD-DVD/Blu-ray player, which would at least offer a foundation on which to build a "do it all" sort of player. Samsung had also talked about trying it, but apparently they got into the engineering and licensing a bit and decided not to do it for now. So far the few HD disc players we've seen have been focused just on getting the new formats on the market - I've got spaces in my HD disc player chart for DVD-Audio and SACD, but so far there's nothing coming (at least from the information I've scrounged up so far).