Ending format neutrality

[Chris Beveridge]

So day after day, I sit here at work and peruse the various sites, threads, news and release information for both formats. It's a part of my job in that I need to keep track of these things and general industry trends. The more I do it though, the more I start to question some of what I'm doing. I am technically format neutral. I bought into HD DVD at its launch for review purposes (so poo on those reviewers who were waiting for comp players) and I bought the Samsung at launch.

I have an obvious preference. I've made no bones about that. But every evening as I sit in my media room to watch a show or some disc, that Toshiba HD-A1 is sitting there staring at me.

It hasn't been powered on, on purpose, since August 2006.

Why am I keeping it around. The off chance that Bandai Visual may actually put out a disc in Japan some time this year? Heck, I can't even bring myself to rent from Netflix for a Universal HD DVD.

So I figure I should just do what I did when the writing was on the wall for laserdisc. Time to put my neutrality out to pasture and find a home for the HD-A1. Any suggestions on the best way to make a few bucks off of it without having to deal with shipping? I figure if worse comes to worse and something does come out that I need to review, it'll be cheaper to score a 360 Strap-On unit and go through that.