So I guess by reducing my exercise, I'll speed my transition to a super-model. God, I've been going about this all wrong the whole time! Oy, what a bunch of BS. Lets face it, we are the vast majority of people on this planet who know our butts from a hole the in the ground when it comes to the benefits of video quality in the home entertainment experience, and evidentally the only one's who want to be able to make this distinction.
If this whole things ends up going belly up, I can't comprehend when we will ever get another chance at it. If it ever happened after that, it would end up being in the HD-DVD (or related) area. In a way, it might have made sense to go that route anyway, i.e. sell it to the people who care about it first and work your way down. Eventually, almost everyone has the sets required and there is an instance market for higher quality broadcast material. But, that's spilt milk under the bridge that this point.