If blu-ray wins? Will it affect the console war?

[rocketpig]

Smidlee said:

rocketpig said:

Jandre02 said:
When people are forced to upgrade their TV's in 09, it may make a difference. Most people will be looking for small HDTV's, and if the PS3 can be priced below 300 by that point and play the only HD disc format, I would have to assume thats a plus.

People aren't being forced to upgrade. This is an extremely common misconception I see thrown around internet forums all the time. Cable companies are being forced to broadcast digitally and therefore SD sets will require a digital conversion box to receive a signal (already available in most every metro area already).

I haven't had an analog signal pumped into my house in damned near a decade. I first got digital cable in 1999 or about two years before I bought my first HDTV.

Cable companies are not being forced to boardcast digitall, local stations are. So far all local stations are boardcasting (digital) in HD!!!

In fact Time Warner Cable wants to go total digital so they can have more room for HD channels. Yet it possible they will not be allow to.

Ah, good catch. I was thinking about my digital cable and typed cable company instead of television network.