Hey Oztech, I too am not going to buy a HD tv for two reasons. First for the price, being it’s way too expensive and the second in a more important reason and that is even though the HD tv has superior picture quality, the quality of tv programs has decreased in the last few years. If forced to, I’ll just buy a HD to analog converter.

It’s ok to want to watch “the big game” on a HD tv but it’s just not normal watching a John Wayne western on a new $4000.00 High Def. tv in my opinion.

Michael Long

I don’t get it either. But then I don’t own a television and have not owed one since 1999.

To each, his own… I love the beautiful, sharp, detailed, colorful images I see on my HDTV screen. Watching a concert video, I feel almost like I am right there, seeing every detail. Put on a “nature” show and you see every little detail so clearly. Even though I’m not much of a sports fan, I will watch sports in HD just because it looks so incredible.

I even had to buy an HD video camera so my own home movies could have the incredible clarity of HDTV.

The thing is, I’m the kind of guy who appreciates stuff like this. I appreciate the beauty of HDTV the same way I appreciate great sounding music being played on my high quality stereo system or beautiful photos taken with my DSLR camera.

On the other hand, some people are happy with photos taken by a cardboard, throw-away camera. Some people are happy to hear music on a clock radio or a boom box. Not everyone has the same tastes. That’s the way life is. I’m not saying it is good or bad to be one way or the other… it’s just the way it is.

Rick

I agree with oztech. I am happy with the tv I got. It is a RCA and I got it from Aaron’s over 5 years ago and it is still playing. I am going to keep it as long as I can. I don’t have $900 to spend on a high definiation nothing.
By the way, the tv is smaller than the one oztech found, but it is big enoung for me. It is a 20″ tv.

I live in the UK and we’re always a year or two behind the US in the technology stakes (colour television, video recorders- why do we have to wait?) and to be honest, the prices, here at least, are ridiculous. Some of the so-called HD TV’s I’ve seen in stores don’t seem to give much more than a bigger screen. And any discernable improvement in picture quality is just not worth another £400 or thereabouts. (And that seems to be the lower end of the scale).
I can remember sci-fi series and films that showed people in ‘future homes’ with their huge flat panel TV’s that did the washing up for you and watched the kids while you were away at the pub. (Exaggerating, I know but you get my drift). They were always wall mounted and though they were still a sci-fi dream, I used to think I didn’t want my telly (do you Americans call ‘em telly’s?) stuck up on a wall (they were almost always head height) and so often in a silly place, where you couldn’t watch them from your favourite chair. You’d have to be up doing something, and even then turn to see the picture. No, I want my telly on its stand, in the corner of the room where it can be comfortably viewed from any seat. And at about hip height, so when I sit down, I don’t have to crane my neck looking up at it!
Two neighbours of mine have bought one of these plasma-lcd-flatscreen-massive-HD machines. One has it so high on the wall that my previous observations apply. You look up at it like some sort of neo-religious techno worshipper. The other has his positioned in an equally worshipful position, but bang in the middle of his front window, where everybody walking past can see it. Not only does this invite the local thug-burglars to come in and take it, but it must be something of a strain to sit, looking up then trying to see the picture when the light is streaming through the window!
There is, I believe a lot of snobbery, keeping up with the Jones’s attached to buying these things. But, as previously suggested, each to his own. I’ll have one, I suppose, eventually. But not until my current TV has died and the price and quality have improved to my satisfaction.

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