I also can't help but think you are trying to impress the wife with
completely the wrong things - IME cooking dinner and a bunch of flowers
gets me far more sex than showing her just what a difference there is
between 5.1 and 7.1 surround ;-)

women eh! 7.1 surround would get me in the sack faster than you could
say HD Ready!
Re flowers - my better half would only suspect I'd bought another
cable.

My projector is only 720x1280 - bit disapointed now I know
there's1080p out there.
Is 720p much crisper than the standard DVD I'm now looking at -
Cambridge Audio 80's Series player.
I read some DVD's are outputting 720p anyway without being HD - is
this true and if so by upgrading to the Toshiba am I not going to see
a difference.

Last question - if I got the Sky/Ntl HD box - are all channels in HD?
- even BBC 1 will be 720p all of the time?
I thought it was just the odd thing that was HD like that Planet Earth
thing and even that was just a test.

If I can watch any football match or Film Four in HD on my projector
(720p) I may be tempted to subscribe.