Quote Originally Posted by Sir Terrence the Terrible
Hey pixel brain, are you SURE I work for Sony, or are you just guessing? I think you are just guessing because I do not work for Sony at all.

Secondly 2000p( which is really 2160p) is much more suited for movie theaters than hometheater. You need a REALLY large screen size to realize the benefits of 2160p, not to mention a huge pipeline for the signals, and ultra large storage to hold it. 2160p does not make any sense for the home.

Your last statement is stupid as hell. When you have a $42 billion dollar market in disc sales, and a $200 million market in downloads, only an idiot would chose to support downloads. Downloading as a everyday practice is not here yet, and won't be for at least a decade. Informed and knowledgeable folks know this, and some little kid doing armchair analysis need to learn this.
How about a 51 year old man who is a veteran of "format" wars?

I REMEMBER just a few years ago , a 15in LCD was 2 grand, 1080p was a "decade"
away, and would be damn expensive then, and solid state storage of media was a fantasy
Today you can get an LCD 42IN FOR 800 bucks in some places, in between posting on this site I AM DOWNLOADING MY ENTIRE music video and CD collection onto a 320 gig harddrive I BOUGHT FOR 99 BUCKS.
And you can buy a completely solid state camcorder for 150 bucks on qvc.
And no downloading isnt the future, and we will never get into WWII (said on dec 6, 1941)

I download everyday, and so do you, you just dont see it as downloading.
Ever hear of youtube? episodes of TV you can catch up on on the networks websites?
Four years ago I had gigs of movies, tv shows , music vids, you name it, on my computer.
The world is no longer frames, musical notes, etc, its ones and zeros.
Its not silver nitrate, its silicon.
And its not a plastic disc , its a hard drive.
The world doesnt turn on a dime, but the astute can see which direction in which its going,
and the expensive process of making a disc and shipping it somewhere will seem quite silly when you can push a button and see every movie ever made, anytime you want.
Which is basically where the music industry is NOW.
And just like broadcast tv followed broadcast radio, and videocassettes followed
records and CD's, so downloading of video will follow downloading of music.
Indeed its already taking place