I've been very impulsive lately.

As I mentioned last night, my HD DVD player lost it's ability to upconvert standard DVDs.  This morning I received a sign from a higher power that I could not refuse.  Walmart is offering a $100 gift card with the purchase of a PS3.  Now, the sale ad makes you think that the gift card must be used to purchase Blu-ray disks, but at least in our case, we just got a standard walmart gift card which we can use on anything, including the diapers we would buy from walmart anyway - so for us, it was very close to getting a PS3 for $299.  Not a bad deal at all.

I was very pleasantly suprised to see that the PS3 has built-in WiFi.  I'm downloading the latest firmware right now.  Not having to buy yet another standalone wireless dohicky was a huge win.

The other positive suprise was blockbuster.com's ability to up-convert my entire queue to blu-ray with a few clicks.  I guess they are gearing up for more people to take the plunge.  They certainly didn't have a similar option when I first got my HD DVD player.