Re: Are you waiting?

sanjian wrote:
To each his own I guess. I've been more than impressed by the
perfomance of even the little 720p sets that I can afford. I wouldn't
call it a "marginally" better picture. I've done side-by-side
comparisons with the TVs here in the house, and there really isn't a
comparison. Even on the same material with the same players, the HD
set offers a clearly superior picture.

But the real question is, as you said, does this justify the price? To
my eye, the answer was a clear yes. Mom replied with "It looks good.
But did you really spend $500 on a TELEVISION?" :-)

Do what the rest of us do, when we corrupt the good, responsible and tech-innocent over to the Dark Side:
As an example of "average", "harmless", "generic" programming, show them "Nature" on PBS-HD. Then watch them show up at Best Buy within a week.

(And if you can't get "Nature", "Smart Europe" travelogues will do.)

That's kind of the boat I'm in. Yes, the screen is nicer. But it's not worth the price tag. Even if the government wants us all to switch over to HD.

My first set was a "little" 32" (which was all my den could hold for seat/viewing ratio) 720 LCD that I'd gotten for a dollar a pixel, and let's face it, there *is* no such thing as "bad HDTV". :)
(Except for "Bionic Woman", of course, but that's a different category.)

I hadn't watched prime-time network TV in literally years, and I'm almost ashamed that I'm back to checking Zap2It.com's listings on a daily basis again. After two years of surviving almost entirely on Netflix, I'd practically forgotten how to channel-surf.

(And like we say, when the "Who needs the format war?" arguments start up again, watch the Haves and the Have-Nots reveal themselves...) ^_^

Derek Janssen
ejanss@xxxxxxxxxxx
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