prinygod

I don't know how you think its profound. The poster statement implies that from an economic stand point (as far as the developers) There is no difference between buying used and pirating a game.
Ill try to explain why this is incorrect in the most simplest way i can, no offense to anyone.

suppose that there is 1000 people that are interested in acquiring a product, and i'm the only one who bought the product strait from the seller. Even if i resell it and it keeps getting resold till all 1000 people own it at one point, there is still only one in circulation, and thus each on would have to deal with the wait for it to circulate.

In all likely hood at least one person will not want to wait, or perhaps not willing to give up their copy, thus encouraging at least one more sale. If i take that first copy however and distribute 1000 copies to all 1000 people. Then there is 1000 copies at once, removing the demand. Everyone can have a copy for as long as they want and still fufill the requirement of one purchase, however no one is likely to buy a second copy, because they already have it.

There are some other factors involved but this should explain why Pirating does not equal Second hand as far as how much money the developer makes. Now it is true that second hand reduces the total bought, but that was not the original argument in the first post

I apologize in advance if there are any mistakes in this example because i am tired and not as focused as i would like

if playtv comes out with a version with a cablecard slot, it would be compatable with cable and satellite, you would just have to pay for what ever the provider charges for the cablecard.

And the ATSC (the us digital standard) does support HD programming, and I'm sure playtv could be made to receive the standard.

The question is how much money it would take to implement all this, and weather or not there is a suitable market for playtv in the states.