A BIG DVD SALE at Amazon. (Via TigerHawk). By the way, my friend Doug Weinstein picked up an HD-DVD player at Wal-Mart for $75 and reports that the real reason to have it is that it upscales standard DVDs to quasi-HD much better than other players. He says this is a characteristic of the HD-DVD players in general. That’s news to me, but if I see one for that cheap I might pick it up for that reason alone — there are still a lot of regular DVDs out there.