Apple TV and HD

I am thinking about buying an Apple TV. I would love to watch movies in HD. Are there HD movies available on iTunes? Someone said that I would have to buy HD movies from a store, then download them to iTunes, then play them over AppleTV to my HD TV. Would this work? Would the quality still be the same as it I were to buy a plain HD DVD player?
Thanks

You can infact find other HD content on the internet. I am not going to say where, but it usually involves USNET or bittorrent, so i have heard. Usually that content is in MKV format. Using Perian and Quicktime Pro, you can convert that file to an apple TV file. Its HD so it will take a while to render. The wait is worth it though. It looks gorgeous. I have a personal film on mine and it amazing. If apple offers HD content online I will so buy so many films from them. That would be so sweet!
Other than that I run my apple TV off of my computer with all the video files on a 1 TB Lacie drive ($350). You can store about 300 of your own DVDs on that.
I love my apple TV, especially bc i don't want cable and all i have are ATSC rabbit ears.
Quad G5 Mac OS X (10.4.10) 4.5 GB RAM 512 GB internal 512 GB RAID external and 1 TB RAID external

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