What walmart were you staking out? I've seen nothing but 16x9 lcd and plasma screens coming out of the stores around here. Last year this time, you were paying a premium for the hd sets, and this year they are deeply discounted, and the fact is that 720x480p dvd looks like crap on the new sets.
I still can't justify the price of a blu-ray or hd-dvd player yet, and while i could get an hd-dvd player that hooks up to my xbox 360 for 200 bucks, the lack of support for hdmi on that player means i won't, so I'm still waiting.
This year, the hd tvs are going mainstream, next year the high def discs probably will. Now if I could only get something on a high-def disc other than Armageddon or Fifth Element. One of these two formats will NOT be a niche player, the only reason that laserdisc was is that in order to appreciate the picture you had to purchase what was at the time considered top-end videophile stuff. Not so now.
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I still can't justify the price of a blu-ray or hd-dvd player yet, and while i could get an hd-dvd player that hooks up to my xbox 360 for 200 bucks, the lack of support for hdmi on that player means i won't, so I'm still waiting.
This year, the hd tvs are going mainstream, next year the high def discs probably will. Now if I could only get something on a high-def disc other than Armageddon or Fifth Element. One of these two formats will NOT be a niche player, the only reason that laserdisc was is that in order to appreciate the picture you had to purchase what was at the time considered top-end videophile stuff. Not so now.