I don't expect a big push on the HD players until there is a good selection of media available. The hardware is pricey, $500+ for HD-DVD and $1000+ for BluRay (or the other way around?) so nobody is going to buy one just to play 3 movies.

The players are being released now for political/strategic/marketing reasons. They really don't expect to sell many at this stage of the game.

At the descretion of the studio the media may have a flag set to down rez the output to 1/4 of HD when output through analog connections or digital connections without copy protection. This means that current owners of HD displays with HDMI or DVI connections that don't comply to AACS digital rights management will be restricted to 1/4 HD resolution eventhough they have an HD display.

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