HD TVs, HD formats and HD Gaming are the wet dream of most 15-25 year old male technophiles whose philosophy is essentially, "Bigger and better is the way to go, who cares how much it costs."
Secondarally the HD arena appeals to the 25-35 year old single male who has found financial stability and insists on owning the best of whatever media medium emerges. You know the typical guy you talk to who bought a PS3 for the Blu-Ray and owns a couple games but can't even name them off the top of his head all the while saying he's not really a gamer anyway.
Now this is not to say the HD phenomenon is totally without outlying appeal or utility for the market, but here in North America for the most part it fails to appeal to the core consumers who matter, the typical american and the american family. We have this confusing array of terminologies, Digital TV, LCD TV, HD TV, Widescreen TV, Flatscreen TV, 1080i, 1080p, and all these commercials for HD TVs, each with its own bazaar snake oil technology that makes its unique in the market which only furthers to confused the already intimidated consumer.
Instead of streamlining the development of HD for TVs, all the companies are going in their own little direction basically forcing anyone daring enough to buy one to use a complicated chart to figure out what they're willing to sacrifice or compromise on for the features they want. Just watching the simplified explanations on the demo TVs at Meijers and Walmart are baffling in themselves. Why can't they just make one kind of do everything ultilitarian HD TV? The Consumer is confused and if any actually have any desire to own a HD TV most are probably waiting for some sort of standardization to occur so they're not stuck with something they may latter regret.
I don't care if HD TVs make sense to you and are simple to you, they don't to the core consumer.
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