"Walter Bright" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > On 3/30/2012 11:16 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> "Adam D. Ruppe"<[email protected]> wrote in message >>> In my house's big room, I have a floor bed: a couple >>> blankets and pillows on the floor, next to my big tv. >>> (my "big tv" being a 20 year old 19" set! I'll use it till >>> it dies. Then duct tape it back together and get a few more >>> years out of it.) >>> >> >> Finally! Another person that's not jumping on board the "If flatpanel HD >> sets are so popular then I guess I have to go spring for one, too" >> bandwagon! > > Dudes, get an HD TV. It really is transformative. And yes, it kills me > that my expensive old large screen standard def TV is just a POS in > comparison, even though it is in perfect working order. > > I can't even stand to watch standard def anymore.
I've seen and used HD sets. Heck, my sister has one (a fancy new one - 1080p of course) and I've watched stuff on it with her. BluRay, HDMI, all the bells & whitles, etc. Yea, the HD looks nice, but ultimately I've never gotten past the overall feeling of "Meh". YMMV, but it *honestly* just doesn't do much for me. Certainly not enough to blow hundreds of dollars on it. And that's with HD content. A lot of my stuff is SD (and will never change to HD - it's not as if my Wii or XBox1 games/hardware are suddenly going to start outputting HD), and I've always found that SD content looks noticably *worse* on an HD set than an SD set, no matter how fancy the upscale filtering is. The upscaling/filtering artifacts are always painfully noticable and it just looks like shit. But it looks perfectly fine on an SD set. 'Course, the old HD CRTs would have been able to handle SD content perfectly fine, but you can't get those anymore. So blowing hundreds of dollars just so half my stuff looks *worse* and other stuff looks (to me) only marginally better? Pass. It's not like B&W -> Color. Just a higher rez. Meh, big deal. When it's commonplace to have inexpensive HD *with* extended gamut (sp?) and quality no-glasses/no-headaches 3D, and content to take advantage of all that (and without getting dizzy from all the shaky-cam bullshit), then it'll probably be enough for me to care. At one point I went from a 160x160 greyscale Handspring Vizor (PalmOS) to a 320x320 full-color Palm Zire 71. *That* was a significant difference. SDTV -> HDTV? Small potatoes, I just can't care.
