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Having only just started seeing HD images on my television screen (not via broadcasts or blu-ray), there is a general shock of the new.
The theatrical cinema experience is very different from watching a television.
There is the ritual of entering into a theatre which totally different from sitting on a sofa and turning on a screen.
If it is a film being projected it's very rare that a perfect print is used and there is the interaction between the the projected light and slight imperfections in the screen, atmospheric conditions between the point of projection and the screen etc (not so much an issue in these post smoking ban times but there is still falling dust and that sort of thing).
Watching a show like Game Of Thrones in HD (were every grape is a jewel and every crack in the ice is as sharp as a razor) at home without those rituals and distractions is undeniably a different experience of television than what I've been used to for most of my life, in the same way that the move to widescreen television was.
In my early life our family alternated between colour and B/W television until colour became the standard so I had to get used to that and the introduction of stereo sound too.
The various tricks used in disc authoring and grain control aside that alone will make HD at home seem unusual for a while.
