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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 2510337" data-attributes="member: 14159">The thing is, I don't think the market is quite ready to move to an entirely new video format.They're just now phasing out VHS (like Wal-Mart saying they are going to stop carrying them, before they stopped under protest), other major retailers only annnounced last year they were discontinuing VHS.  We here at ENWorld are a fairly technologically savvy group overall, and probably fairly early adopters of new technologies.  I know people (like my parents) who just got their first DVD player last year, and just started to get new DVD's.  They are still feeling a little burned about buying an Atari 5200 for me as a kid that was discontinued 6 months later, the idea of their DVDs being discontinued after a year or two would be enough to make them give up on electronics entirely probably.  VHS was the de-facto standard for almost 20 years, DVD has been that way for only about 5 years so far (sure it existed before that, but only around 2000/2001 did it really get big), and it's just getting firmly established as the real standard.I don't think the masses are quite ready to go buy new DVD players and new TVs just to keep buying the same things.  Yes, HD-DVD and Blu-Ray offer more resolution and fidelty, but honestly, do we really need it?  DVD floored us with quality when it came out, but I still watch my old VHS sometimes, and I've got no real desire to sink a small fortune on a new HDTV set just to get better resolution.  I've seen the demos, and sure the picture is nicer, but it isn't worth spending a small fortune nicer.</blockquote>

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