I was thinking about blogging on the subject of HDTV, but Andrew beat me to the punch with a piece that says pretty much everything I was going to say. Some of the content on the Discovery Channel is mesmerising in its beauty.
And despite the fact that the set-top box, TV, home theatre, and game console all come from different vendors, it all plays together tolerably well. In fact my only complaint is with the RCA home theatre box: when I’m watching cable TV, I route the audio through the AUX1 input of the home theatre, so I’m regularly switching the unit between DVD and AUX1 modes. Every time I do this, the box forgets its settings! This means that the next time I want to watch a DVD I have to remember to wait until the disc is loaded and then reconfigure from the default (4:3/480i) to 16:9/1080i. Oh, well. At least it plays both NTSC and PAL DVDs.