A few months ago I traded in my 10 year-old 27" Philco "Turbo Audio" monaural TV for a 32" Trintion-tubed HD TV and a full 5.1 surround sound set up. (We couldn't go top of the line, but we did Okay I think).
It was nice... DVDs sounded better, PS2 sounded better, TV sounded better... and everything looked, well, a little better. Honestly I wasn't amazed at the picture quality. It was definitely better, just not "wow" better. I used progressive scan and the component inputs on the DVD and it just didn't look all that much better than the old-fashioned RCA jacks. Anyways my cable company (Comcast) recently started to deliver a few HD channels (five to be exact: HBO, ShowTime, PBS "HD Theater" and the local affiliates for NBC and ABC). We needed to get a new box to see them (the new box costs an extra two bucks a month) - that got installed a few days ago. Well, after spending a day tangling wires and creating some of the most complex multi-remote control combinations known to man we've got (some) HD TV! After being burned by everything else I wasn't expecting much but I was pleasantly surprised. It really does make a large, although largely indescribable difference. We just watched "Spiderman" and flipping between the non-HD and HD versions was like night and day. The colors were richer and the picture was plainly, obviously crisper, clearer and contained more details. If you have the option I recommend it highly (although the menu IS severely limited). Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
