I seen a film on HDDVD at a mates place, it did look good, but I think the price he paid for the projector as it was a HD projector he had and also the cost of the player made it over priced. I know these prices will come down, but at the moment I think buying any HD DVD system is a big risk, as it is just Beatmax and VHS all over again. What we also did was take the DVD unit into the living room and stuck it on his 32 inch HD samsung LCD set. It looked ok, but to me the diffeence in quality was not that much better than a normal DVD. So on a massive screen HD is fine, but on 32 inch set which is what most people will have it is not really worth bothering with.
That is why I said that I have no need for a HD compatible T.V set.
No one knows what will happen in ten years time, but if we still have to pay the T.v licence fee and a subscription then I am afraid the T.V will be chucked out from here. I hate paying the license fee as it is because apart frm the odd thing BBC is just not worth the cost. subscription is fine if you can choose the channels just like the way on Digital did, Sky uses a system which to me is naff, if they said I could pay £10 a month annd choose so many channels, then I may be interested, but sticking them into groups and saying you will get channels in that group if you want them or not for a certain amount is not my idea of personalised T.V
BT Vision is really just a freeview PVR with VOD added on, which is fine if the price is right and you can get the quality over the ADSL link.
Top up T.v is just a waste of time, we will send you programmes to your box, from different channels, but we will pick out what we want you to watch, then a few weeks later we will send the same stuff to you again, just in case you want to watch it again.
As I said my idea subscription system, would be either a PAYG system or one that I can choose what channels I want to watch.