All such kit takes years to establish itself - it's not until it's "cheap in tescos" that HD will get down to the hoi poloi.
Here's how companies work. Five, maybe ten years ago, marketeers and engineers get together and plan HD storage and playback. They scurry off and sell the idea to their CEO's who then finance the millions in designing the electronics and producing the players.
The cost is enormous and so the marketeers talk about amazing sales and fast adoption rates - it's the only way the budget to design the stuff will get signed off.
The kit gets made after arguments and licensing issues and technical difficulties...finally limping into the shops a few months late.
Everyone sits back and awaits the "Amazing sales and fast adoption rates". They don't happen. Predicted sales get adjusted downwards, shares slide, jobs get lost, technology improves and the kit gets cheaper, suddenly it's "cheap in tescos" and everyone lives happily ever after.
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Re: HD TV's
All such kit takes years to establish itself - it's not until it's "cheap in tescos" that HD will get down to the hoi poloi.
Here's how companies work. Five, maybe ten years ago, marketeers and engineers get together and plan HD storage and playback. They scurry off and sell the idea to their CEO's who then finance the millions in designing the electronics and producing the players.
The cost is enormous and so the marketeers talk about amazing sales and fast adoption rates - it's the only way the budget to design the stuff will get signed off.
The kit gets made after arguments and licensing issues and technical difficulties...finally limping into the shops a few months late.
Everyone sits back and awaits the "Amazing sales and fast adoption rates". They don't happen. Predicted sales get adjusted downwards, shares slide, jobs get lost, technology improves and the kit gets cheaper, suddenly it's "cheap in tescos" and everyone lives happily ever after.