The price won't go down. Bank on that. People are willingly giving the providers their $15 or $20 extra a month now for HD. When it becomes "normal" the providers can change the name of the packages and "cut" the extra fees, but they'll simply be built in to the package price.
Yeah, what he said. In less than 10 years (probably 3-5 years) the HD will be dropped from HDTV and people will forget about it. It will all be just TV, just like when we transitioned from black and white to color. When channel programmers start dropping their SD versions in 5-10 years will people even notice that the HD premium is still built in to the programming packages? I doubt it.