Let's hope that the other studios all follow suit for both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray.

If not they will save me a bunch of money.

Sony Blu Ray Downsampling

HD-DVD Locks out old HDTVs

With the funding available to these innovators, there is no reason why they cannot modify their designs as necessary. They have tremendous support and an enormous financial backing. I highly doubt they are only able to contemplate "scaling up" their current design.

http://www.inaniloquent.com/PermaLink.aspx?guid=29 c499bc-6dc0-4fb5-a21d-2d671861b42a