I'm certainly not getting into rearranging my furniture or primary seating position to accommodate a certain resolution; that being said, it may indeed come down to some tinerking with player/display settings to get highly compressed 480i material to look decent on a massive screen.
However...
The only problem I see with the medium is when the screen sizes get to a certain average level...and how 480i resolution is going to hold up on, say, 80-inch-plus displays. Right now, I'm running a 65-inch display, and this was a step up from my previous 50-inch rear projection set, and DVD...
I still buy them whenever I see a title that I don't really need, or want, in high def or ultra high def.
It's still a viable medium, IMO, given the right hardware (i.e. scaling of an UHD BD player) and assuming the mastering was done properly.
Additionally, I rent DVDs every week from our...
Perhaps; but, as I said in a previous post, there are still nothing BUT DVDs being offered at our Redbox kiosks (very few Blu-rays and NO UHD Blu-rays) and our local retailers like the ambiguous Target/Wally Mart carry a ton of new releases on the format.
In fact, I recently purchased a Scott...
Funny...
My local Redbox rental kiosk stocks nothing but DVDs, save for the occasional Blu-ray that I can snag from time to time. I also still see tons of them for sale in local Targets and Wal-Marts.
For me, it's a medium that's still viable; most newer releases look great upscaled by my...