Does anyone own a HDTV?
Lazy Otakus
22-05-2006, 20:01
Does anyone actually own a HDTV?
Just curious.
*poll coming*
Dobbsworld
22-05-2006, 20:01
Yup.
Pure Metal
22-05-2006, 20:14
yup, and its not really worth it yet. there's not much in the way of HD stuff to watch... digital TV looks good though.
very good quality though... nice and big and vibrant, and widescreen (about a zillion times better than my old tv, even if the dvds are the same resolution)
Andaluciae
22-05-2006, 20:16
At the moment I've got no more than a few hundred dollars available to me, and come next fall, the university will take all of the money I accumulate over the summer, so, I don't plan on purchasing anything even remotely resembling an HDTV. I will steal my parents old color TV though.
Dobbsworld
22-05-2006, 20:18
yup, and its not really worth it yet. there's not much in the way of HD stuff to watch... digital TV looks good though.
very good quality though... nice and big and vibrant, and widescreen (about a zillion times better than my old tv, even if the dvds are the same resolution)
I agree, PM.
Pure Metal
22-05-2006, 20:21
I agree, PM.
gonna get an xbox 360 ASAP and that'll be all HD and cool and stuff :)
wow i'm eloquent tonight!
DrunkenDove
22-05-2006, 20:22
That's the finest joke option I've seen in sometime. Kudos to you, good sir.
And no, I don't own a HDTV.
Intestinal fluids
22-05-2006, 20:40
Own a 62" HD TV and its awesome. Perhaps too good. You can see bad acne, female moustaches and other ungodly blemishes that really kinda hurt the illusion of star perfection. Baseball games simply look incredible and ytou can see individual blades ofd grass in the infield and i cant wait for football to be in HD
Sarkhaan
23-05-2006, 00:54
Own a 62" HD TV and its awesome. Perhaps too good. You can see bad acne, female moustaches and other ungodly blemishes that really kinda hurt the illusion of star perfection. Baseball games simply look incredible and ytou can see individual blades ofd grass in the infield and i cant wait for football to be in HD
I don't think football will benefit all that much from HD. If I remember correctly, hockey benefits the most (little black puck is hard to follow in low res.), then baseball...
Infinite Revolution
23-05-2006, 01:02
what's an hdtv?
[NS]Liasia
23-05-2006, 01:03
what's an hdtv?
a complete rip-off
Peisandros
23-05-2006, 01:03
what's an hdtv?
Great question.. An explanation would be nice.
Europa Maxima
23-05-2006, 01:04
I do. Buy one.
My family owns a projection screen HDTV. It pwns.
The Infinite Dunes
23-05-2006, 01:10
Great question.. An explanation would be nice.Just a TV with a higher resolution. A similar comparison would be a 640*480 res to a 1280*960 res. However, there is very little available in HDTV format in europe at the moment. Hence it's not worth buying one until the format becomes more widely available. I think Sky plans on broadcasting in HDTV format quite soon.
Frisbeeteria
23-05-2006, 01:15
I wouldn't bother with anything smaller than my 42" Sony WEGA, but on that size or above, absolutely. There's not as much content as I'd like, but it's getting there. HBO, Showtime, and the Discovery Channel look fantastic in HD, and my local networks and Public station round it out enough. I'd love 20 more channels.
BTW, I'm not an American football fan except in HD. It really does make a difference. Even baseball is almost interesting in HD.
Dobbsworld
23-05-2006, 01:16
I wouldn't bother with anything smaller than my 42" Sony WEGA, but on that size or above, absolutely.
Sounds like we've got the same unit.
Kibolonia
23-05-2006, 03:10
Football in HD is fantastic when the networks do it right. Glorious even. It even makes NASCAR watchable. The news might actually be worse, it kind of looks creepy when you can see all the makeup. One guy in particular looks as if someone dug up his corpse and painted it to look like a whore. Disconcerting to say the least.
Any sport is MUCH improved by a competent HD presentation. But I've got plenty of content (7 local HD channels, plus a handful of HD cable channels), including a DVD player which does upconversion, which, on a nice DVD, looks fantastic.
In the arena of consumer electronics I've found that it's almost always best to wait as absolutely as long as you can. Nothing wrong with being able to save $500 on that nice 1080p DLP number with extra HDMI inputs, CARDS and an HD tuner.
M3rcenaries
23-05-2006, 03:38
yessir
UpwardThrust
23-05-2006, 05:32
Yes
Its worth it
But NOT becasue of movies, because mine has DVI in for my computer :)
Pure Metal
23-05-2006, 09:56
I wouldn't bother with anything smaller than my 42" Sony WEGA, but on that size or above, absolutely.
23" does me fine
But NOT becasue of movies, because mine has DVI in for my computer :)
ooh yeah baby :D
Cannot think of a name
23-05-2006, 11:17
Just a TV with a higher resolution. A similar comparison would be a 640*480 res to a 1280*960 res. However, there is very little available in HDTV format in europe at the moment. Hence it's not worth buying one until the format becomes more widely available. I think Sky plans on broadcasting in HDTV format quite soon.
To continue, or over explain, really...
"Standard TV" is at @720*480 no matter how big the screen gets. This was the standard way back when TV was invented and people would say things like "Why one day, tvs will be 15 inches"...
So when you'd get to the bigger tvs something was kinda off.
It was that the signal standard hadn't changed, like ever.
So now HD(high definition), which is 1080*720 (the last number I'm not so up on.)
UpwardThrust
23-05-2006, 16:48
23" does me fine
ooh yeah baby :D
Ill get some pictures ... lan party this weekend at my place ... will be bringing my machine up stairs to use it:) (With my gaming machine rather then my mythtv box)