If you have an older TV or HDTV or monitor you are screwed!

[TanisFrey]

The real loser is Beta.

But it's still the prefered for local news crews and some other's

 

[BSF]

And responding to a note above, sure, fiber to the home isn't terribly commonplace now because people don't want to pay for it. But the day a service becomes available where you can watch, say, any sci-fi or fantasy movie you'd like, right now, this minute, at an affordable and reasonable price, and be able to rewind, etc., if only you had a fat pipe, the "last mile" will be come very, very affordable, through sheer consumer demand.

That is only situationally true. In large, saturated markets service providers can afford infrastructure improvements. In geographically large, but sparsely populated markets, service providers do not make infrastructure improvments.

I can't get DSL to all areas in Albuquerque because Qwest doesn't have the infrastructure to support it. Don't even ask me about DSL to places outside of Albuquerque! A good portion of the state does not have readily accessible high bandwidth offerings. Even a cable modem is not ubiquitous in the state.

New Mexico is not the only place where this happens. Yes, high bandwidth infrastructure will grow where it makes business sense to do that. But in the places that it doesn't make sense, content providers will need to evaluate whether they need physical media outlets to accomodate demand.