Making it make more sense to you is siding with you and you just will not accept it average Joe ideal.
You got enough people allready buying TV's they dont understand and are disappointed when they get them hooked up.
Didnt use DVI/HDMI/component cables- Have to go back out and spend more money, time and headaches to get that right. and after all that finding out it still doesnt work HDMI/DVI and spent dam good money on Monster cables since BB, CC, Radio Shack, you know average Joe stores only sell that CRAP!
Then finally get it running, gfot all them expensive cables only turn it on to find out SD looks like crap and it doesnt look anywhere near as good in the store. Ooops time to spend more, antenna, cable sat connection time.
After now all that and more headaches and money, they dont broadcast more than 20% HD on HD Channels so now you have to take it as is or pester your local channels,cable and sat connection to make it better.
Now you got dead pixel/s, blown projector bulb and more you didnt fully understand, urg is becoming a factor fast.
That plasma/ projector TV in the sun room wont even show itself unless its dark, but looked darn good in the stores.
So much confusion, problems, misinformation, headaches, dollar spent and so fourth.
Thats only on average Joe that might be willing then like Clint said, Moms and Pops whom dont even know that this exists and the ones that do, have allready heard these horror stories. You got salespeople who know nothing, sat and cable installers who dont know much more about all this stuff and so on.
On top of that, us few who internet, have money, addiction and other problems that who are into this stuff arent pleased, thrilled, disappointed by whats going on and argue and debate it, answer daily hookup problems and so fourth.
Too much, too fast,yhe public is not ready for this ontop of whats allready happening. And for those companies promoting it as the end to all dreams and giving disapointments to it , it can not afford to make it a reality!!!!!
They would have had much better chances if they let the ashes settle on whats allready happening for HDTV etc. Got it right, complete as advertised, fully supportive of all formats, they might have a Gold Mine as it stands, odds say Flop no matter how it ends up.