But I see Bluray as a stop-gap between DVD and HVD. HVD will be the last physical disc format that Consumers will need as that will be when HD video & audio can be fully uncompressed for the future High Density SuperHD screens.
I don't expect HVD to wait for SHD(4k+) screens, but you make the point of a sason on The Simpson being 4 DVD's and only 3 BRD's, but that would be 1 HVD.
Just picture something like the complete series of Law & Order. On DVD that must be something close to 50 DVD's at this point. Which might only be about 35 BRD's and then 10 HVD's.
The benefits of BD Live sound amusing for the first few times you try it at best and then quickly forgotten afterwards. It's actually sounds a little like have the forums on your TV while you watch a show, only your programs aren't synced and someone has just ruined what happens in 10 minutes for you. Either way, everything that Bluray has HVD will have only it will also have more storage space (which they might actually be able to put to use by maybe recording your commentary to your disc or recording peoples reactions to certain scenes of certain movies right on the disc. Or whatever other things they imagine might be an attention worthy gimmick at the time.), uncompressed audio, extremely high resolution for those that have the equipment to take advantage of it & the best way to fight piracy for retail released disc*.
*Who is gonna have a HVD burner and blank HVD disc**? Who is gonna rip 200GB+ files and upload them to the internet? Who is gonna download 200+GB files everytime they want to watch a movie?
**I realized I mentioned burning straight to the disc earlier, but you never know how that stuff works. Could be a hybrid disc that uses a different type of re-writable format. This is all hypothetical talk so lets not focus on that.
edit: @ Broodwars
I have no doubts that HD looks better, I used to have HD cable service, but after a certain amount of time, I realized tha tit just doesn't really matter to me all that much. It looks much cleaner, a lot finer detail, an overall just much better picture, but is that really worth paying more for? $10 extra a month for HD cable when I watch most stuff online/on the computer anyway? an extra $10 per movie or TV Show series/volume? To me, not right now, as like I said, I don't reallly know what I'm missing.
If Comcast gave me Free HD for the next 3 months and moved all teh HD channels to take place of the regular SD channels, then I might not want to go back to regular TV. If Netflix started streaming in 1080p onto my computer screen, then I might get annoyed when non-HD things start to look a little blurry in comparison.