Blu-ray newbie - which player to purchase?

[bluraydog]

well hows it going every1. well i am new here but ive been in the back ground lurken for awhile now. ive finally decided to take the plunge and buy an bluray player. i was wondering if anybody had any ideas on which one to buy? i was looking at either the ps3 or the new sony bdp-s300. any thoughts would be helpful. also i was at bestbuy looking at all the blu ray players and movies and the damm workers there kept tryin to shove hddvd down my throat. sayin it was going to win the format war and that all the sudios supported hddvd and that i would be wasting my money on bluray. this damm worker was pissing me off so much that i had to tell him to stop push is own damm thoughts on me and leave me to make my own decisions and that my decision was bluray all the way baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! are the workers there on some kind of incentive program for selling hddvd crap?