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Roni: there are just too many entertainment

options for anyone who isn't retired, under 18, or single to participate in these days. Adoption of a lot of these big, expensive displays and rapidly evolving delivery technologies will take a good deal of time.

We stopped watching television for the most part a couple years ago when options to download the programming after the fact became more convenient (if not strictly legitimate) than programing the VCR or TiVO. Then again, we've never had cable tv either, and don't get the newspaper anymore either so our exposure to that world only comes from what we read on the net or hear about from friends.

We do have a big screen LCD that got bought on a whim a couple years ago, but still end up watching most programming on a laptop in bed.

I've recently experimented some more with downloaded programming with widescreen aspect ratios, and watching them via DVI/HDMI from my laptop on the aforementioned screen - and even in their subsampled form they're completely acceptable for watching at a normal viewing distance (6-8ft). A bluetooth mouse kept at my side let's me operate all aspects of the playback from the couch.

I suspect that HD won't really take hold until they integrate more completely with computing interfaces, making distant viewing of webbrowsers and applications less of an experiment in eyestrain as it is currently. By then we'll all need these 108" panels though.