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Perhaps that's why, this time, I won't be disappointed if gas prices stay uncomfortably high. Then I might finally be able to adapt to them. I might relinquish, at last, my selfish fantasy of buying a 300-h.p. sports sedan that uses only premium. I might break myself of the obsessive road-trip habit that caused me to put over 90,000 miles on a new SUV in just the past two years. I might trade in the SUV for a mountain bike and lower my blood pressure as a wholesome side effect...
...waited this long without going mad, so I might as well wait a bit longer." I don't blame you. But consider this: even if HD DVD turns out to be a flash in the pan, $500 is how much I spend on five months of premium HD cable TV. With a subscription to Netflix, you can watch all of the HD DVD titles that come out as they launch. While it might not rival what Blu-ray has promised for sometime in the future, the HD DVD catalog - with The Matrix, Shawshank Redemption, Full Metal Jacket, Jarhead and Chronicles...
...player got confused and froze up, requiring me to restart the thing. I can't say that newer HDMI sets will have this problem, but I imagine anyone with an older yet compatible set like mine should be ready for hiccups. Besides the HD-A1 and Toshiba's $800 premium HD-XA1, only one other HD DVD player is slated for introduction this year, RCA's $500 HDV5000. Incidentally, it, too, is built by Toshiba. (In the longer term, Microsoft has suggested that it may evangelize the technology in China, where manufacturers with weaker brands could make very affordable units...
...further complicate matters, the Sony's premium PlayStation 3 game console will also be a full-fledged Blu-ray player. This week, Sony announced that it ships on November 17, and will cost $600. (Microsoft will introduce an HD DVD player accessory for the Xbox...
...many seniors who signed up early, the doughnut hole will soon arrive. "Once they hit it, they're going to be enormously surprised and upset," says Pollack. "When they're in the doughnut hole and they pay 100% of their drug costs, they still have to pay the monthly premium. So this is like going to a gas station and all of a sudden there's no gas going into your car, but the dollar signs keep on going up." If frustration with the Medicare drug program reaches anywhere near the anger at the pumps, the Bush administration's celebration...