[dangerdoc]

Instead of being an improvement in product, the industry has taken the transition to HD as a chance to change their business model.

Their revenue has gone down, rather than looking at their product and realizing that most of their movies hold no interest to the majority of people, they have tried do come up with a way to make more money with a generally lousy product.

We have seen it in the theaters, they are taking more and more money from the theaters leading to $5 cokes and candy.

Now they desperately want us to buy $500 players and spend $30 per disc on lousy movies. They forced Blu-Ray/HD DVD war outcome giving us the more expensive alternative.

Well they have had the opposite effect on me. I no longer buy day and date movies. I may rent a movie if it sounds good and then wait and buy used.

If a movie is HD worthy, I wait until it is on TV, record it with my computer and watch it on my media player.

Well their business model has an upside, my movie budget has gone way down leaving more money in my pocket.

[Hyzenthlay]

Now they desperately want us to buy $500 players and spend $30 per disc on lousy movies. They forced Blu-Ray/HD DVD war outcome giving us the more expensive alternative.

I'm still in the 'wait and see' stage - I remember probably only about 7 years ago, when my family was looking at standard DVD players, it was difficult to find one for less than $100, and IIRC the average price was closer to $200. Now, they're dirt cheap and everywhere. Similarly, DVD's used to be well over $20 each, and now you can find them for about $7 at places like Best Buy. Give it some time, and it might just be affordable, but until then I'm sticking with DVD.