What bothers me is, I was at a Best Buy here in the states and they had a hi-def plasma screen at over 50 inches playing a marketing video showing the differences between HD and SD and it really didn't look any different. I know they are and it should have looked better than that but on a screen that large I was surprised it just didn't look that good. That will turn people off. There was noise in the video as well that just didn't look good. The noise looked like deinterlacing artifacts. Line flicker! Around the corner was a 60 inch Samsung Plasm playing King Kong on DVD and it blew away the HD feed on the other wall around the corner. Unless HD is setup right it will not impress the average consumer. Most people don't care about HD. I only know a few people that have it. Some have upgraded there TV's to HD displays and still watch SD. Consumers just don't understand it. My Fiances son is a computer whiz and he would watch a show on my Setup without selecting the HD channel. He would be watching the SD channel. To tell you the truth...he doesn't care! He listens to his iPod and could care less about my Meridian system even though he does know it sounds better. He is the same with video. I really think there are a lot of people out there like this.

That Hi-def setup at Best Buy was void of people. Know one was looking at it. More people were in the small flat panel area where DVD's look just as good as HD in most cases.

I am usually an early adopter and I'm not in this case. I just don't see the average person being interested in it enough. Plus the copy protection just turns me off.

Maybe I'll be wrong but the way I see it I don't think it will take off like DVD. Maybe if the studios force it on the consumer and make it as cheap as DVD, including new players then eventually it will catch on. But no where near as fast as DVD took hold. I know some people that have HD displays and are too cheap to pay the extra $10 a month for HD programming on cable or satellite.

Ron

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