Ok, even the 30% that have hd tvs, how many of them even understand that they have an hd tv. Consumer education is very low on it. Most people watching regular dvds on it still think they are watching in hd. For the most part they are if its an upscaling dvd player. Its good enough to the casual consumer. Soccer Mom Jane and regular Joe still are not motivated to get a PS3 if they never wanted one in the first place.

 Yours was way back in like June, mine was in Novembrr, much more likely to be accurate since figures are more up to date, anyways, even if we assume 30% for the sake of argument (that's like 33 million households at most), that is still a small amount, espeially considering that HDTVs are pretty much the only one availible like Nintendownsmii mentioned, and the fact that most people do not know about HD signals and input devices, the adoption is going to be much slower than you believe, because most people don't know of a difference and will have to be forced into it

 As someone who works for a small focused company that was recently bought out but a huge company I say hell no. Our mission statement went from saying we were going to innovate and keep making the best products of their type in the world, to work with other divisions to show a good return for our stockholdrers. The party is definitely over for Us. Yes we might get into new markets and be insolated in the down times but there will be no blockbusters from us anymore.

 On topic I agree that diversity is great for the industry. It reflects the fact that no one company has what everyone wants. I find it funny that the most focused company shoots for the most diverse customer base. 

Well, sometimes being multiple products company can hurt one division's product. In the case of PS3 it's the obligation to include bluray drive to push the format, but it has risen the retail price and R&D costs.

 The HD Ready LCD/Plasma TVs do look cool and I think a major selling point is just that, get a TV in your house that isn't as BIG as your house as the old SDTVs tend to be really thick. What you get is a higher resolution TV where SD and HD programming looks like crap compared to an SDTV with decent 16:9 material on it. Right now HDTV is an immature technology.

 The best LCD and Plasma panels today don't hold a candle to good old CRT when it comes to picture quality. They look good enuff for most people though (remember, the majority of HDTV owners still watch fuzzy SD programming stretched to fit their TVs) just don't enable that 100/120Hz or any of the other "quality enhancing" settings or the picture rapidly falls apart.

We'll see. I bet a lot of people said this about music downloads a few years ago as well.

I think the piracy dowloads is a good indicator of where the legal market will be real soon. I don't keep up 100%, but this is my impression: for movies now, almost all are SD and the file sizes are not a problem. Almost no HD movies. For TV shows, there are some in HD. When you see more pirated HD movies shared, then HD DL might be an option.

The most important thing IMHO is that it's becoming a more heterogenous (sp?)  market. You have buying, rental, mobile viewing, Youtube style and maybe more. Different strokes for different folks in different circumstances. If I'm at home at friday night and just feel like watching a movie, SD DL might be just right. If I was the collecting movie buff type, buying the hidef disc might be the right choice.

oh man 30% of all households is not much? We are talking about 50mio units(some have more than one) you done like to agree that you are wrong right?

For all they buy them because they look cool guys. Of course true for many. But 50% of them have hd tuners etc. Thats still tens of millions. Besides first you need the LCD tv then you can use he signals. So its a neccessary prerequisite.

Oh and CRTs look better? Sorry but this is bullshit they have better colors but crta of the resolution and screensize of normal plasmas lcd weigh 60kg and are not even available. And even when still some samsung hd CRT were available they looked terrible besides lcd with hd input at the bestbuy. Perhaps you could have adjusted the settings but in the end any small advantages would be swallowed by the fact that they freaking weigh a ton and are huge. Modern lcd look awesome and dont need a strengthened floor.

For me, the point in getting an HD TV would be to use it as a PC monitor.

 When was the last time you saw motion blur on a crt?

LCD and Plasma has advantages, picture quality just isn't one of them.