Then I put in CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY. Since I saw it in HD-DVD this afternoon at Best Buy, I wanted to see how the standard definition DVD compared.
Color saturation was equal to the HD-DVD version, but that sense of three dimensionality on the HD-DVD was missing. The standard version looks great, clean, sharp, perfectly presentable for most folks.
But just like HD on network television spoils one for watching regular TV, I think this could easily do the same. Fortunately, the players right now are expensive and scarce, there are only a dozen movies available in the format (though more are coming every couple of weeks), and there will be a competing, non compatible HD format for DVDs coming out this summer.
So, I'm content to watch and enjoy what I have and wait for prices to drop, more films to be available, and the format war to resolve itself.