I did some "really" completely different with HD. I bought a 211k HD Dish receiver of late to get the extra lines of resolution and extra channels only in HD, but I watch the HD in 480p, as that is all my Toshiba EDTV will give me. I did not really need an HDTV set and I don't like watching TV on mot LCDs I have seen. I like the warmth of a CRT and they are on the way out. aand I record a lot of stuff on DVD to keep and getting an HD DVD recorder is very spendy and spending $20 each for blank discs is a bit much, plus so many have HDTV sets that do beautifuly in HD, but do not downconvert very well to SD so the SD stuff they used to watch on their old CRT set looks poor on their new LCD. I know of many that ony watch HD now. If you spend lots of money for a top of the line HD set, they generally do better downconverting to SD, but most people buy the less expensive sets. Unfortunately, most channels are still not available in HD as yet either. I wanted to get the better pix quality and still have good SD. The Toshiba 30" widescreen CRT EDTV does wonders on a good DVD and the HD signals pretty much match a good SD DVD. The OTA, SC, and other satellite fare also looks great, if the originial transmission is good. So, I kind of moved up to HD in a way. I get all of the channels that are only available in HD too. Some channels coming on these days only have HD feeds. Now to move to SC HD and DVB HD in time. But it all takes money.
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