The first way to do it is by hiring HD channels, available only on specific satellite television providers, like HD discovery channel or things of that sort. This is pretty nice to watch with a good HDTV but the bad thing is you need to pay your providers extra for the channels, and even if you did, there are very little channels available on HD.
Another way to put use to your HDTV is to download HD content from the web both legally or illegally. This is not a good idea if you don't have a very fast internet connection or a 'shitload' of time to download movies or TV-Shows ranging from 15 to 30 gigs.
And Last but not least is gaming. Alot of next generation games look great on an HDTV but gaming isn't the only thing you can do on a console. Both Sony's Playstation 3 and Microsoft's xbox 360 have High Definition disc compatibility. The xbox 360 supports HD-DVD but to use it you need to buy a 200 dollar add-on for the console. This makes it a very stupid decision if your just looking for an HD-DVD player, as you can buy for around 200$ without the 360. The Playstation 3 comes with Blu-ray included in it when you buy it. This makes buying a PS3, which ranges from 400-600$, the most affordable blu-ray player on the market. Although the PS3 definately has an advantage over the 360 in terms off disc compatibility, The xbox 360 has the capability to download HD movies and TV-shows straight to your TV, which might be seen as an incentive to own a 360 over a PS3. Now, there is an ongoing, pointless 'war' between both High Definition formats with massive publishers like Paramount pictures or Warner bros jumping from exclusivity to blu-ray to exclusivity to HD-DVD. But no-one really cares who will win the 'war' as long as someone does, and we know in anticipation who that will be. right now it's looking good for blu-ray but neither of the two formats has a library of even a hundredth of all registered DVDs in the market. And even if they did, that would never persuade people to buy movies they already own in a better format.
So, In conclusion, the money it takes to buy an HDTV, an HD compatible player (Blu-ray or HD-DVD) and 30$ movies is not really worth it. For now. But as the VCR dominated the Video tape recorder, and the DVD dominated the VCR, in the future one of these formats will dominate the DVD. And when that time comes all the HDTV owners will say I told you so.
