"Bob Latham" wrote

I would have thought he meant that people thinking they would like to move
to Bluray have the double expense of buying not only a player but a TV or
display as well. I think he's is suggesting that people could do this in
two stages by using a convertor to their old TV. It seems perfectly
reasonable to me to describe joining the BD users as 'climbing on board'.

A SCART to HDMI converter would allow an SD source to be fed to an "HD Ready
TV", not the other way about. In any case all BD players have
standard-definition video outputs. Come to that all "HD Ready" TVs will also
accept SD inputs, so converters aren't necessary either way.

What troubles me is that what I've just written is very obvious indeed,

Not as obvious as you seemed to think. A converter will not provide HD
results even if one of the units connected to it is HD capable. Neither are
they necessary even if you wanted to do a staged upgrade. Anyway BD players
are so cheap these days I can't see why anyone upgrading their TV would
consider adding a BD player as a "double expense".

so
why did you guys sound puzzled. Either I've missed something which is well
possible or you lot are being deliberately anti Keith. Which would be very
disappointing. I hate these personal wars on this newsgroup. can't we
disagree with someone without falling out and calling each other names
like children.

Keith has become uttterely boring on the subject of HD. This isn't a
home-cinema newsgroup, and the video aspects of BD etc. are off-topic. Keith
knows all this but he'll still start a thread such as this one as he enjoys
trolling. Yes I know we should have simply ignored him rather than react to
his little games.

David.