i thought films recorded with analogue cameras could be upscaled as big as you want, like with film photography... if you take a photo with a digital camera it is made of pixels and can only be enlarged as far as the resolution lets it, with a film camera you can enlarge it as much as you want depending only on the limits of your printing medium [or the cleanlyness of the camera lens]

i assumed old film reels would work the same way, as long as the original is still fine you could scale it to 1080 easily.

 Yea, I think it is, but don't forget, eventually if you keep on zooming into a film, it will eventually get blurry, because the light didn't affect the film fast enough, or there wasn't enough focus, and as film tech has been improving, it means that you'd be able to get higher resolution from a newer film, shot with newer equipment, presumably lol

i also think both hd dvd and blu ray will be replaced by a video download service in the future much like ipods replaced cds and tapes.

if you take a moment and look out your windows, you'll see true HD.
1080p TV are still too expensive to be mainstream. Christmas '08 is probably when it becomes more affordable.

Full HD = 1080p

Sure, displays have already surpassed that and will continue to do so, but standard HD, and thus "Full HD", is 1080p. That's why HD movies are encoded in 1080p, and it should be the norm for quite a few years.

I think HDTVs will have at least 50% market share in the US by 2009, thus making them "the norm". We're already surpassing the 30% mark and HD adoption rates continue to grow by leaps and bounds. Not to mention analog signals will be completely gone by 2009, as mandated by law (not that that will have much overall effect). The fact that most retail stores are full of HDTVs, with maybe 4-5 models of SDTVs at most, is also helping HD become the standard as well.

In Europe, HD won't become mainstream for at least 4-5 years. HDTVs are pretty rare in stores over there from what I hear, and that isn't likely to change soon. It's almost as if retailers are cramming HD down our throats here in the US, not that I'm complaining. :P

B&W TVs lasted at least 10 more years after color ones were introduced; and we're talking about a big difference there... Also, at least 80% of the people buying HDTVs know not what they are; just biggy-thingy TVs for them, sadly.

most people buying new TV are looking at the inches.
Trying throwing 1080i and 1080p and see how many people think you're crazy.

most people dont care about specs. only design and color to match their room