Remember what a big deal it was to have a home theater system? Now days, they are cheap enough that you can buy a wannabe version from WalMart for like $50! Well, the next ‘big thing’ is just around the corner. And man, is it going to be huge! Enter the new world of high-def DVD entertainment…

High-definition gives incredible, 3D-like pictures and surround sound.

The DVD disks and the gear to play them will not be out for another year or so, and there at are still a number of issues to be sorted out.

But when high-definition films do come out on the new format DVDs, it will profoundly change home entertainment.

For Rick Dean, director of business development for digital content company THX, a high-definition future is an exciting prospect.

He has worked on the Star Wars DVD trilogy, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles and Indiana Jones.

“There was a time not so long ago when the film world and the video world were two completely separate worlds,” he told the BBC News website.