Budding filmmakers might reasonably prefer to shoot their low-budget masterpieces in a snappy forward-looking format instead of a fuzzy one compatible with a 50-year-old TV.
This gives productions the freedom to choose the recording file format that best matches scene content and budget, and the flexibility to archive HD, 2K or 4K recordings.
Take a few million dollars out of the budget reserved for establishing plasma size bragging rights or DVD format wars and hire a few programmers that know how to create an interface.