Who Needs Blu-ray? Economist.com: "The native resolution of the vast majority of HDTV sets today is 1080p. As such, the set's screen can now handle the highest resolution generated by its scaling electronics. To the average viewer, an ordinary DVD played on a modern HDTV is not only a huge improvement over the picture on a standard TV, but practically indistinguishable from that produced by a Blu-ray or HD DVD disc -- and all for half the disc cost and no extra piece of video gear." (Italics mine.)