Its a matter of economics. If you've got money to spend on a new tv well then get a new tv. Otherwise $20 (plus voucher) is a lot easier to handle then $400 for a new tv.

The studios are going to be in a world of hurt if they don't bring their prices down before the cost of the blu-ray burners and blank disks. The only thing preventing wide spread piracy of blu-ray movies is the cost of the blank disks. Dual layer disks cost as much as buying a movie and single layer are only slightly cheaper. Once those the price of disks falls to $1 and the burners drop below $100 the torrent sites will be full of blu-ray movies (not that they aren't all ready).

Perhaps they can justify a premium for HD now but that attitude won't last. Especially with SD tv's becoming increasingly hard to find.

This happens to PC users all the time, you buy a kicking system for 2 g's and within a year games are released that your once proud system struggle with... Crysis. So every year or so you upgrade your video card for a few hundred plus more ram as bonus. When it comes down to it, if your setup can't handle the games you simply do without or upgrade. It is the game industry that pushes the hardware industry to higher and higher gains. Why should console gaming be different. Here you have a kick ass console like the 360 playing it on 50 year old crt tech. wtf. Granted I havn't upgraded my tv yet, still saving for a 61" dream. So that means I have to put off some games until I do. But on the plus side the games will be $30 cheaper by the time I can play them. Besides, try playing a few of these games on an hdtv and you'll never want to go back to your p.o.s. sdtv.

If you look at what HD stations offer, most are 720p, some are 1080i, none are 1080p. The only way downloaded HD media will ever over power physical media is if the internet providers upgrade their networks to fiber or wireless transmission. Current capacity of cable and twisted pair is at capacity.

Unless the utilities combine forces to replace twisted pair phone cable with fiber or cable to fiber the current providers will never have enough bandwidth for digital downloads to compete let alone replace physical media. Or the new companies that are running fiber will become the defacto providers leaving the phone and cable companies with a crumbling business.