[moonhawk]

You don’t get out much, do you?

If it gives a smoother picture on a very large screen than an unconverted signal does, people will buy it.

I had a very high quality up-converting DVD player that made standard def videos look damn near as good as high def, and hung on to it for several years before they settled on BR as the standard for high def video.

Worked for me.

[adorno]

You don’t get out much, do you?

It is quite apparent that, it is you that doesn't get out much.

On what cave are you living in that you haven't noticed that, people are not going to spend some $10,000 on a higher definition TV, just for the purposes of upconverting the signals? That's $10,000 that is not in the budget of most Americans, and perhaps only the rich will be able to afford. Yeah, perhaps years into the future the prices might come down, but for that to happen, there has to be a lot of early buyers in order to make volume manufacturing practical.

Plus, for the most part, most people are quite happy with 720p TV signals right now, and when the time comes that TV signals go to 1080p, then most people will already be equipped to receive them.

What you are doing is trying to justify and rationalize the need for something like that right now, but right now, most of what people view, on TV and from CDs, is adequate enough on 720p and 1080p.

When the prices of the super-duper-ultrahigh-moreThanYouNeed definition TVs do come down to prices comparable to current high-def TVs, then I'm pretty sure that many millions of them will be sold, and I will be one of them buying one. For now, it's very impractical. Maybe when the economy recovers, or when Obama subsidizes purchasing of those TVs it will become "practical". Or, perhaps there will be people taking out second mortgages in order to make the purchases possible.

Now, do go out and get in touch with reality, because, what you perceive is not reality.