Originally Posted by Dirty Dane

Maybe I used the wrong word, it should be planning instead of 'investment'.
Anyway, if you can afford a new HDTV every year or two, then its not a problem. But most people are not that wealthy (or as rich they claim to be), so I assume that when the average customer buy a TV, they plan to use it at least 4-5 years.
The TV technology itself changes all the time, yes, but what I am talking about is the compability with the new Blu-Ray format, which will probably be the standard for next 10 years. The compability is not an everyday technology change, but rather a generation shift. It can be compared with buying a VHS player when DVD players were introduced.

The Blu-Ray compability is already here, the producers and salesmen want to get rid of their old TVs, so my advise for planners is to spend some extra bucks instead of getting stucked with a non compatible TV. Its cheaper in the long run.

Originally Posted by RRRED

Yeah I wanna see bdjuf in his yellow footie pajamas watching his new tv :)

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.