Re:Simple Solution (Score 1)

What walmart were you staking out? I've seen nothing but 16x9 lcd and plasma screens coming out of the stores around here. Last year this time, you were paying a premium for the hd sets, and this year they are deeply discounted, and the fact is that 720x480p dvd looks like crap on the new sets.

I still can't justify the price of a blu-ray or hd-dvd player yet, and while i could get an hd-dvd player that hooks up to my xbox 360 for 200 bucks, the lack of support for hdmi on that player means i won't, so I'm still waiting.

This year, the hd tvs are going mainstream, next year the high def discs probably will. Now if I could only get something on a high-def disc other than Armageddon or Fifth Element. One of these two formats will NOT be a niche player, the only reason that laserdisc was is that in order to appreciate the picture you had to purchase what was at the time considered top-end videophile stuff. Not so now.