Poll: Does anyone still own a standard definition tv?

[GeneticallyModifiedDucks]

My family uses a SDTV in the living room, but my main TV is a 26" 720p model. It's nice.

 

[Danish rage]

Fortunally i live in a country where even the porrest can afford a HD tv, and a console for that matter.

 

[Keava]

I used to have one...till 2 weeks ago when it finally decide to die after 10 years of faithful service, so i was forced to buy a crappy LCD one.

 

[DSK-]

My TV is a 22" LCD HD TV, my brother has a little 14" TV/VHS combi and the family has a 30" odd inch SD TV. I can say for absolute certainty that games on these SD TV's looks better than on my HD TV.

I thought HD was supposed to be better. The only time I was impressed was at one point in GoW 2 where the lighting effects looked good.

Can't believe I wasted £200 on that piece of shit.

TheBlackKnight did point a few things out as to why the quality may be bad, but it's still pretty annoying :/

 

[selce]

I have one that's over 30 years old, and my golly it's holding out extremely well. Only had to take it once to the repairman, because of an electric storm.
Man, they don't make TVs as they used to...

yea my parents still use a TV from when they first got married almost 30 years, those things are beasts!

 

[carpathic]

I don't even see the point of an HD TV.

I see them in the store, and frankly they aren't that much better.

Just seems like a way for Cable companies to leech another couple of bucks from you every month for the HD Channels.

 

[lapan]

I still had a SD-TV and Screen till about a year ago. To be honest, i dont care that much about graphics, in 90% of the cases you cant see the difference anyways unless you compare them side to side.

 

[JEBWrench]

That's all we have, and all we will have for quite some time; means we have to sit closer to play something text-heavy, and we need to magically guess just what is written in Viva Pinata, but them's the breaks.

 

[Lord Beautiful]

I have an SDTV, seeing as I'm not made of money.

 

[Keepitclean]

I don't even own an HD tv.

 

[MikailCaboose]

Yes. I don't have the money for anything else...
Oh well, it works just fine for me so my only complaint is that it's heavy as Hell.

 

[EOTD]

Never liked the idea of HDTV and I think 3DTV will never pass on. Sky are doing a 3D package for some reason, apart from football in 3D what else will be given the treatment? Do you need football in 3D? I can understand "some" films. I feel sorry for the people who got a HDTV when it first started, only to find out that they had to upgrade because the first ones weren't up to it. Reminds me of DVD players, you can get one today for £20 that is miles ahead of one that first cane out and cost £200. You must never get the tech when it's new (PS3, XBOX and so on). Upgrades will be made on things that don't need it, people will waste money to get it and the world will keep turning. Oh well, to them who have a HDTV and get what they need out of it, good for you. Everyone I know who has one, now regret's it.

 

[Tipsy Giant]

I'm a SDTV guy who is waiting for everyone else to go 3d so I can get a HDTV2nd hand on the cheap, first adopters are suckers

 

[Sonic Doctor]

Never liked the idea of HDTV and I think 3DTV will never pass on. Sky are doing a 3D package for some reason, apart from football in 3D what else will be given the treatment? Do you need football in 3D? I can understand "some" films. I feel sorry for the people who got a HDTV when it first started, only to find out that they had to upgrade because the first ones weren't up to it. Reminds me of DVD players, you can get one today for £20 that is miles ahead of one that first cane out and cost £200. You must never get the tech when it's new (PS3, XBOX and so on). Upgrades will be made on things that don't need it, people will waste money to get it and the world will keep turning. Oh well, to them who have a HDTV and get what they need out of it, good for you. Everyone I know who has one, now regret's it.

Party pooper.....no, actually -> What do the people you know regret about it? Everybody I know under the sun has one, from me to family and friends, which equals at least 12 HDtvs, and even more from people I am just acquainted with. Every single one praises their purchase and loves their HDtvs. I would say that buying mine was the best purchase I have ever made, I love having a 32 inch computer screen and my tv shows not looking fuzzy. I don't have to buy junction boxes for special devices. My HDtv makes my life simpler.

 

[Celtic_Kerr]

I still have my old faithful tube TV. It's a decent size (about 40" I think) but when I play videogames on it, all the text is tiny because everyone loves their HD widescreens

 

[Sonic Doctor]

I'm a SDTV guy who is waiting for everyone else to go 3d so I can get a HDTV2nd hand on the cheap, first adopters are suckers

You could look at refurbished tvs if you know a place that does that. One of my friends got his 32 inch Vizio 1080p LCD HDtv from a store that refurbishes them. He paid 320 for it, I doubt that even when prices go down you will get a better price than that. Besides I got my 32 Insignia 1080p for 460 with 2 year warranty, I would say if prices went down, it would only go down to about 360 or so. It would only go down lower if you wait ten years, I doubt that you want to wait that long. By that time I bet we will be using virtual reality entertaino visors for all of our visual media.

 

[Plazmatic]

in the next few weeks im getting a 1080p led tv so i can finally play my ps3 the way it was meant to be played. i considered going 3-D but then i remembered, i fucking hate 3-D. so i decided to pass on the 3-D and go for a bigger screen instead of shelling out a lot of extra $$$ for a technology that irritates me. if hell freezes over and beyond good and evil 2 is actually released, and they decide to make it 3-D only, well then my hands will be tied. until then, however....

anyway, sorry for that long drawn out introduction. my question is, am i like the last gamer on earth to finally upgrade to HD? i feel like all my friends and every gamer on youtube has a massive flat screen for gaming and watching blue rays.

no, I still have a giant ass 44 inch electron gun TV, but I usually play pc games any way, and the screen resolution there is a lot better then the max on tvs, 1650 by 1080 compared to your wimpy 1080 by 720, and I can hook it up to my 360 any way

 

[Sonic Doctor]

I still have my old faithful tube TV. It's a decent size (about 40" I think) but when I play videogames on it, all the text is tiny because everyone loves their HD widescreens

That is actually one of the reasons I got mine a few months ago. Back last October when I pre-ordered Halo 3: ODST, I got a ten dollar credit, I used it to buy a three pack of XBox 360 games, on of the games was Dead Rising, I couldn't play the game because the instructional text was just too small, I didn't know what the game was telling me to do. Though I don't like the game anyway, I hate games that are basically one big timed mission. It was fine back in the days of Super Mario Bros, because I didn't have to think or plan while playing it, I usually beat it in 24 minutes these days. But the new games of today just don't mix with timers. Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask isn't that new, but that was the major fault I saw in that game as well, let me actually play the game instead of making me worry and rush through it. Sorry, on tangents again.

 

[Celtic_Kerr]

I still have my old faithful tube TV. It's a decent size (about 40" I think) but when I play videogames on it, all the text is tiny because everyone loves their HD widescreens

That is actually one of the reasons I got mine a few months ago. Back last October when I pre-ordered Halo 3: ODST, I got a ten dollar credit, I used it to buy a three pack of XBox 360 games, on of the games was Dead Rising, I couldn't play the game because the instructional text was just too small, I didn't know what the game was telling me to do. Though I don't like the game anyway, I hate games that are basically one big timed mission. It was fine back in the days of Super Mario Bros, because I didn't have to think or plan while playing it, I usually beat it in 24 minutes these days. But the new games of today just don't mix with timers. Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask isn't that new, but that was the major fault I saw in that game as well, let me actually play the game instead of making me worry and rush through it. Sorry, on tangents again.

Try going through a conversation with Mass effect two. I'm glad they hve the basic rule of "Upper left and upper right option are generally paragon. Lower left and lower right and generally Renegade" thing because I can't see that the option to say is.