I see where your confused. Basically your misunderstanding some terminology.
What you may of heard is HD-DVD is on it's way out... not HD TV. HD-DVD is a brand of HD (High Definition) video disc. Blu-Ray is the competing brand of HD video disc. Blu-Ray IS HD, even though it doesn't have HD in its name... don't let the brand names confuse you. For that matter, Blu-Ray is called Blu-Ray because the technology uses blue lasers instead of red like DVD does... but HD-DVD uses blue lasers too, even though there's no "blue" in it's name. It's all brand name.
So HD TV is seperate from those. HD TV can refer to the type of TV that is able to display High Definition... or it can refer to television programing that is broadcasted in high definition (or a cabe/satellite/antenna setup that can use those broadcasts). To truely and actually see something in High Defintion (HD) you need to have both an HD cable/satellite/antenna setup and an HD TV. Not to mention you must also be watching an HD channel (like NBCHD) and that particular program on the channel needs to be in HD. For instance on NBCHD, the morning/evening news is in HD and so is alot of prime time shows... but alot of daytime TV isn't HD yet.
So HD (High Definition) is not on it's way out... it only just got here. The brand called "HD-DVD" is however.
There's also a move happening next year.. where all TV broadcasted over the airwaves (recieved via antennas) will be moving to digital only. If you use cable, particularly digital cable.. or have a converter box... this change isn't going to effect you at all.
Hope this clears some things up
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