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HD is having trouble because broadcasters want to make it slightly harder to record. Basically, they've seen what happened when the artificial scarcity of the music and movie distribution monopolies was broken, so they want to try to maintain that as long as possible with television rather than adapt to their new environment.
The net result is that that major selling point has boiled down to HD being able to offer a slightly better picture on the correct hardware. And it does look really nice on the correct hardware... I'm just completely unwilling to pay for the stuff. Cleaning my glasses really well is a more relevant factor to picture quality, honestly.
Also, the cessation of analog broadcast will probably be eased somewhat by the cable companies. Most of the set-top boxes have models that are HD receivers... they'll probably just start offering them as a gateway drug to larger cable packages.
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