In five years will SD programming even exist anymore? My money is on SD reruns shown on HD Channels, but SD-Only channels have to be dying, if not dead by then. And for the love of God let's hope people get over this stretching 4:3 to 16:9 hysteria by then. Pillarboxed people! COME ON!
Also you're unfortunately forgetting the oblivious masses that don't even realize they need a new box/different service/antenna to get HD programming. Cognitive Dissonance in conjunction with the $1500 they just dropped on a new TV and people can really fool themselves into thinking that 4:3 stretched SD looks siiiiiiiiiiiiick. They don't know any better and the little kid at Best Buy sure didn't help explain it. Good thing he sold them on that $120 HDMI Monster cable though cause it does have "more pixels."
Also you're unfortunately forgetting the oblivious masses that don't even realize they need a new box/different service/antenna to get HD programming. Cognitive Dissonance in conjunction with the $1500 they just dropped on a new TV and people can really fool themselves into thinking that 4:3 stretched SD looks siiiiiiiiiiiiick. They don't know any better and the little kid at Best Buy sure didn't help explain it. Good thing he sold them on that $120 HDMI Monster cable though cause it does have "more pixels."
