Even though a laser printed document at 300 dpi, has only one quarter of the resolution of an offset printing at 1200 dpi, it is good enough to be perceived as a printed document. HDTV is a cinematic experience. In this scenario there is no videotape and no film, only digital imagery. Tech heads will make it so. That leads me to my other observation.
Content providers are the arms dealers in the war for eyeballs.
That is a central message of the Eyeball War. Without content all the suits have are a lot of preference menus to set. All dressed up and nowhere to go. Consider this statement. The acceptance or rejection of an invention, or the extent to which its implications are realized if accepted, depends quite as much upon the condition of a society, and upon the imagination of its leaders, as upon the nature of the technological item itself.