Originally Posted by evildick

It's not really that big of a deal. His TV doesn't have an HDMI input anyway, so that means if he does get a blu-ray player in the future he will have to hook it up with the analog component connections, in which case his TV will just scale the signal back to 720P or 1080i or whatever. As far as I know you can still get a high definition signal out of a blu-ray player even if you don't have a 1080p set with an HDMI input. You just won't get the full 1080p signal.

If they shipped blu-ray players and the only way you could use them was with an HDMI input, then they wouldn't sell more than a handful of them, because there would be almost no one that could use them.