I'm pretty much where Chris, Ian, Jerry are on this (Ian articulated this quite well I thought). In fact, Whenever I want perfect HD, I just go outside...

With an upscaler for my 120" wide 2.35 screen, SD produces a 'good enough' to take me into the story;

Although, to Ron's point, if the an HD format stabilizes I will choose to buy favorites in HD no question. In fact I actually just bought a music Blu-ray disk (Tony Bennett) and I can't even play on anything - I anticipate picking up a PS3 sometime next year to enjoy what I can and who knows, maybe a game or 2 will intrigue.

I think many will choose to buy HD if given an easy choice, but the desire for it, won't drive us to a new format (and certainly not thru a war).

I've repurchased several of my DVDs on Itunes, just to easily have them accessible on the laptop for travel; Jerry in answer to your question - these are in mpeg4/H.264 at just under DVD resolution at 640 x 480.

Chris - you're on for lunch!

ken