HD DVD Compatible?

Hey,
This might be an odd question. I was looking around the DVD Player prefs, and came up an HD option. Does this mean my Macbook can play HD DVD's?
Thanks,
Tom

To add to what Rich said, while the iMac's display is HD and the DVD Player app can play HD content, the drive itself cannot read either HD-DVD or BlueRay DVDs. If you have another way of getting the content into your iMac, you will be able to view it in all its HD glory.
HD DVD players are extremely expensive right now and I do not expect them in consumer level machines like the iMac too soon.

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