It seems to me that the ones who think HDTV is so great are those who are in the industry and academics. What I wanna know is, do the consumers really care about higher resolution? How great a picture does The Simpsons need? If we're so het up about a better picture, why not just go straight to digital and work out the compatibility problem once, instead of now for HDTV and later for digital? It seems to me that since digital transmission will give a better picture than analog, no matter how high a resolution the analog might have, we should skip the middleman. Then this discussion of film vs. video would be a mute point. Or would it? ;-) ---------- To be for one day entirely at leisure is to be for one day an immortal. --Chinese Proverb-- ---------- JANA L. HYDE &:-) BITNET: JHYDE3@UA1VM INTERNET: [log in to unmask] DEPARTMENT OF TELECOMMUNICATION AND FILM THE UNIVERISTY OF ALABAMA TUSCALOOSA, AL