| Globox said: You know that most of the TV chanells already are or are going to be HD chanells in near future, couple of months to be precise. So if you have SDTV, than you picture will look like crap. I agree that HDTV have long long way to go before they replace SDTV, but folks that even now have SDTV are not big dvd or any other high tech buyers. People that care about buying dvds, they will switch or have already switched to hddvd/blueray, it is that simple.
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Even if they all begin broadcasting everything in HD right now, the bulk of their content is still SD. And even once they do get more HD content, most of it won't have any real advantages over SD. After all, what reason is there to watch a sitcom in HD instead of SD?
And you'd have to be crazy to think that people who don't own HD sets don't buy many DVDs. If it were true, then don't you think that Bluray and HD-DVD sales wouldn't be sucking? And you miss the point by saying "people that care about buying dvds." No one cares about buying DVDs, people care about owning copies of movies and shows that they like. It's the content that drives things, not the technology. DVD succeeded because there was a flood of movies and TV shows rereleased on DVD. DVD was the first format to make boxed sets of TV shows comercially viable and that is the biggest reason why it succeeded. DVD added new features like director commentary and deleted scenes which made it worthwhile to rebuy old movies as they were rereleased. Bluray and HD-DVD don't bring anything new like that to the table.
