[Jmend255]

Originally Posted by who me

I think you might be seriously overestimating the size of MMA's audience in the US and I know you are vastly overestimating the size of HDnet's viewer base(estimated currently to be around 9 million subscribers). Furthermore HDnet isn't carried by Comcast cable(except in Houston)the largetst cable provider in the US. Hell currently it's estimated that only around 30% of US homes have a HDtv, yea it's the wave of the future but it's still years into the future(and HDtvs aren't "cheap" they are just less expensive than they used to be, they still cost 3 times as much as regular tvs do). Then there is the fact that it's estimated that only around 44% of HDtv owners are actually watching HDTV programming. Of course not even close to everyone who has a HDtv is a MMA fan either so what you have is a fraction of a fraction of a fraction; your talking about viewers who are MMA fans, own a HDtv and are also subscribers to HDnet. It's just not a significant number at this time, their are over 300million people in the US and HDnet is currently only being subscribed to by 9million of them, when you are only reaching 3% of the population you are a fringe player at best. Mark Cuban is gambling on the future of tv not the present.

Yes, if you are talking about the present, I would agree. But it is the law that HD will be the future, so Mark Cuban is investing on something that is inevitable, and not on legacy technology. You should call your cable providers. They refer to non HD equipment as legacy equipment. That goes to tell you how long that will last. People succeed by being prepared for the future, not by milking the present with it's foreseeable end coming soon.