If we are treated bad, that I don't want to say.
That everything about audio and video hardware comes later, yes.
That BD titles come later, yes. But that's the same with dvd and even theather releases. So no worries here.
What I do tend to notice is that Europe (at least Belgium and the Netherlands) are Blu-ray minded. If you look at the shelves, the majority is Blu-ray. You have to look a little bit harder to find the HD DVD's.
Problem is I think, that we are used to the Pal system and that that system is good enough for a lot of people. In the US however, they have the NTSC and have far fewer image lines than we have. So the HigDef is a major step.
Here only the ones with a HD Ready tv sets can enjoy the highdef quality. A lot of 'older' tv's are still working fine and the television stations are only beginning broadcasting 'higher' def programs.
Give it some time and Europe will rock into High Def.
Show what you have to as many people as you can, talk about it, make people curious about the 720p, the 1080i and of course the 1080p.
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