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Originally Posted by Slapper
Hi-def downloads and the like will, eventually, take a large chunk of the hi-def market.
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You've been duped by Microsoft. The bandwidth and storage space to even contemplate hi-def downloads is a decade away minimum. Even with 160 Gig hard drives as a standard, that's only enough to download 3 movies with uncompressed sound.
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I also think that most people with DVD collections will be very hesitant toward upgrading to hi-def versions of films they already own on SD DVD.
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People said the same thing about VHS. Just like DVD caught on because it's very clearly better than VHS, the same thing will happen to Blu-Ray, *if* HDTVs finally take off. Which brings us to the bigger problem in this case...HDTVs aren't as cheap as they need to be to be in all homes everywhere.