Why the pictures of an upscaled DVD movie (upscaled to 720p, it looks like) vs HD-DVD (raw 720p), when we're talking about plain-ole DVD vs Blu-Ray? No upscaling, we're talking raw 480p vs raw 1080p here.
Blu-Ray kicks DVD all over the field on a 1080p TV, just like DVD did to VHS... as a matter of fact, in *very* much the same manner, as the vertical resolution differences are very similar when comparing VHS-vs-DVD against DVD-vs-BluRay.
You can argue that the transition from 248 vertical (or 224 or whatever VHS rez was, I forget exactly) to 480 vertical was more easily perceived than the difference between 480 vertical and 1080 vertical, but I think I'd have to say that, visually, it's still a pretty significant upgrade. Of course, I own a 1080p TV, and a PS3, and can see the difference pretty easily. If you own a 720p TV, and play all your 480p DVDs with upscaling hardware, then you won't notice as big a difference.
In any case, it seems that all, and I mean ALL, of the retailers disagree with this guy -- major retailers don't devote valuable shelf space to failing formats, if you didn't know. The Blu-Ray space has increased dramatically in the past year... meaning there's money ($$) behind it. ...and where there's money at retail, there's success, plain and simple. It doesn't get much more obvious than that.
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