Your absolutley right at best connecting a standard DVD with HDMI cables just eliminates excess cluttering of cables. Also as I stated HD DVD's are in fact Obsolete and there very hard to find.

"Your born, You Live, You Die, given this premise, one can conclude since we have no control over when we are born and when we die, the only thing that matters to us should be how we live, simple really?" Mis-Cat to her philosophy Lecturer.