About downloading contents: the vast majority of people has access only to narrow band or little more, I've had ADSL for more than 4 years, the base top speed for entry level flat contracts has grown from 1 to 6 Mbps, but th quality of my line hasn't and I'm still at a real top speed that's between 1.6 and 2 Mbps and only downloading from my provider's servers, mail, news, etc. I can download low quality contents in an acceptable time, but full DVD quality is already quite slow and HD definitely out of question. And thi isn't going to change in the near future, as the ex italian monopolist, that still has the vast majority of the lines, as Mr. "Mortadella" Prodi privatized it in a way that can only be explained as idiot or criminal or both, is burdened by enormous debt, due to the bad habit developed in the past, when the state fueled it with public money, so they are literally letting rot the lines.
So, like lots of people, if I'll become interested in HD, I'll probably have to buy physical media, not download.
