Don't have the HD set stretch the image. Just watch it in the original format. Personally, I just find that looking at an LCD display is easier on the eyes than a CRT. Being able to mount it on the wall to get it away from the kids is nice too.
On Mar 31, 2012, at 2:37 AM, "Nick Sabalausky" <[email protected]> wrote: > "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. > >
