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David: Your idea of "early adopter" may be different than mine. Even by 2000, most people didn't have DVD yet. I think it was more like 2002. So anybody who bought in the first 4 years (97-00 say) could be considered an early adopter, compared to the mainstream. That gives me until 09 to be an...

This is getting kind of pathetic. I didn't know spending money was that hard. Vegas comes to mind... What you or your ten thousand closest friends do is irrelevant. It's what the b/millions of people who don't come here do that will determine market success or niche. I'm sure most people...

Ricardo: I'm not at all questioning your enthusiasm. Wish I had a 20' wall that wouldn't be too close to me, far enough to get an image that size by projector. Somehow mansions are eluding me. I'm just saying that I think it's not quite as cut and dried as before for some people. Nobody is...

I have to disagree with you Ricardo. I found VHS beneath my minimal acceptable quality level. I did not find that so with DVD (the typical transfer). So, maybe I'm an odd case, but I found VHS intolerable, not so with DVD. Very different than going from DVD to hi-def. This time I'd be going from...

Pessimism about the implementation, the studios, and the manufacturers. Absolutely no pessimism about the concept. In my case the pessimism is tempered by cynicism too.:D I don't think anybody here truly wants a hi-def format to fail, or else they wouldn't be here. We just want it to work...

^ Some people bought Toy Story *expecting* a large visual improvement and found it to be negligible to minimal. That's when they knew it was the end of the line. An experiment. Not to be confused with *intentionally* paying good money for virtually nothing.:) I don't think anybody's saying...

I presume all the people who are getting PS3's for BR have an HDMI (or DVI at least) connection to their main display device? Or will they be watching in a lower res? Or on a tiny display? If it's an LCD display, they're hardly of overall hi def quality right now regardless of claimed res, maybe...

Paul_Scott: Generally I agree, but not re the question Ron asked. I bet MANY of us are strongly considering an equipment upgrade. Right now. Just don't want to get burned after a year, so are waiting to see the results beyond the talk. I've read here that there are people who bought displays a...

No rush for me. Will wait for the industry to get some experience, see what floats that isn't just a turd, was way too much of that with DVD. Do I think the industry has learned from DVD? Yeah, right!:D They're still trying to figure it out. Some transfers are gorgeous (few enough), some are...