but then again it may not

stringent HD impact

I was saying this on this forum over a year ago.

27-Dec-2004: "Blu-Ray and HD-DVD are all about better copy protection, higher quality images are the bait"
Chaninging Technology

17-Dec-2004: "SkyHD, BluRay, HD-DVD, whatever, will not be providing high definition content on the analogue outputs. It may be that a deliberately down-rezz'ed signal (down to 480/570p say) will be available on the component outputs but this is the best we can hope for analogue-wise."
Shock announcement for UK Panasonic Plasma Owners

Allan

The music and movie industry continue to shoot themselves in the foot. They make it so hard to watch/listen to things you own. As the article mentions at the end no copy protection they have produced has ever withstood hacking for very long.

All that will happen is that when consumers buy these new discs they end up using a chipped player or just using a hack and rip it to a non protected format so they can watch it when and where they want. Then it's in a format that can easily be copied. And why go and spend $30 for a disc that you need to spend half an hour mucking about with just to watch when and where you want when you will be able to download it for free in a format that is better?