Lending evidence to my decisions not to buy HDTV or Blu-ray.

They got me once, switching over from VHS to DVD [and cassettes to CDs and now MP3s, for that matter...] but they're not getting me this time. I just wanna watch a damn movie.

HD TV and the placebo effect - Boing Boing:

"New research from the Netherlands explores a placebo effect around high-definition TV. Of course, HD does look sharper, but the mind apparently can easily be tricked into thinking that regular TV is HD."