If you are serious, welcome to the club.
You wouldn't be the first to buy a HD-DVD player when they were firmly in the BD camp. I know of many people who appeared to favor BD and have bought HD-DVD players. In fact, I think more BD fans (still favor BD too) own a HD-DVD player than BD players.
I think eventually there will be little difference between the formats, but right now HD-DVD is still putting out (on average) more high PQ releases. BD is starting to put out some gems too now, so I think my biggest factor in favoring HD-DVD (price) will disappear in 2-3 years. Maybe sooner. I also think that studios will ALL be coming out in both formats eventually too, so that will become a non-issue too.