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Originally posted by: Hal 9000
DVD will be like VHS has been since DVDs came out.
DVDs will be available similarly to how VHS was even though better technology is out there.
I don't really see any reason to buy HD-DVD. My TV isn't digital, and my movies already look excellent.
Thats true SD-DVDs will still be avaible for probably a decade after HD-DVD is released. The difference between DVD and VHS is 3 times as high on an analog telvision 4x as good on a digital television and 8x as good progressive. HD-DVD has 6x the pixal disc resolution as SD-DVDs. I swear once you look at a D-VHS on a good digital television there is no going back. So if your amazed by how much better DVDs look then VHS on a regular television then you will be blown away by HD-DVD. Some say that certain players upconvert SD-DVDs to HD resolution makes HD-DVD worthless. This is not true. A true 1080p HD-DVD will look 3.5 times as good as an SD-DVD upconverted to 1080p. HD-DVD players will allow such conversion on SD-DVDs. Since HD-DVD players will be backwards compatible with SD-DVDs it will be a long time before your current collection is useless. Still the radical huge difference in picture and sound over SD-DVD will make HD-DVD a great early buy.