so get a giganews account and download all the hi def movies and tv shows
you can eat.
morally dubious perhaps - but in the absence of alternatives what choice is
there ?

What's a giganews account? (a more expensive monthly subscription to
ntl broadband no doubt - what £30pm?)
I've only got a mac with 80GB hard drive - whats the best way/place/
free software to download films from and rip to disk ( a whole new
discussion I guess + one thats probably illegal - I'll blame you guys
for corrupting me).

Also whats 'Full HD' as compared to 'HD Ready'? If your TV is HD ready
and for example you connect a £400 HD DVD to it (or your Sky box),
press play do you get an the full HD experience?
I'm relatively new to this so please bear with me - the more I look
into it the more complicated (and expensive it gets).

From what you've said it sounds like there'll be lots of Comet
salesmen telling discruntled customers
'Ah MR. Gullible, what you actually bought from us last week was HD
Ready TV but in order to get the crisp picture you see here in our
showroom you should have bought the Full HD Model, that'll be another
£2000 please. The HD Ready just means you get a sticker saying HD
Ready'

Also isn't what's on Sky and NTL intermittant HD i.e theres a football
match in 3 weeks time thats going to be HD or there's 300 films being
shown over the coming 6 months 2 of which will be HD.

HD seems to have been here for a while, I was just surprised to find
that after all this time there was still only one HD DVD player - I'm
accept it's £400 but surely the rest of the big boys must have seen
the potential for HD DVD players?

Now I've rigged up my Hitachi projector I can't wait to see a big fat
sharp HD picture across my living room wall. My problem is I have
family & a life so can't afford to make 'finding the right cable' my
goal in life.

Ordinary bloke just wants to impress the girls with his big... picture