Poll: Does anyone still own a standard definition tv?

[Hateren47]

I have a relatively new CRT (Philips 32PW9551) with a single HDMI port. It has a "HD Prepared"-sticker and does 720p and 1080i but the native resolution (in relative CRT-terms) is 1360 x 768. So it's higher than SD and HD but lower than FullHD. I'm not giving it up until it breaks though as everything on it looks better than on flat panels. CRT FTW.

 

[Deadlock Radium]

We don't have any Full HD resolution TV's in out home, but we've got two 540i (!) TV's and my 1080p monitor (Which doesn't count as a TV).

 

[biGBum333]

yes its incredibly obsolete and my dad is too much of a stingy **** to get a new one, even though i offered to pay for half for it

 

[Hoplon]

Don't even own a TV at all...

When I win the lottery, I will send you one. Seriously, I would be that giving if I did win the lottery. What's the point of being rich, if you don't use the money to make other people happy. I mean, if I was rich, there is only so much stuff I could buy for myself to make me happy. My actual material wants, would probably only set me back less than 100,000 dollars. So if I did win the lottery, I truly would be set for life. I seriously don't see how lottery winners go through like 100 million in a few years and go broke, that is really horrible money management.

they don't actually get the 100 mill do they though, they only get a yearly dividend on the lump sum or can take a much smaller amount straight away (or something)

anyway, I don't really want a TV, i have my nice 24inch monitor with HDMI if i need to hook up the 360 for a bit of SFIV action.

 

[Gypc]

I do, and it makes me feel really bad about myself... thanks for bringing that up.

Okay, in all seriousness, yes. Unless you're a total graphics freak, I wouldn't bother.

 

[Argtee]

My family has one in the basement, but the rest are HD.

 

[MikhailGH]

If I can still count, we have 3 old tv's. No HD ones. No 3d ones. Never been a fan of that new HD stuff.

 

[gl1koz3]

What's the point of upgrading anyway. Until they blow up in my face or a cat pisses on the chips I don't see the point in wasting the money.

 

[Vault101]

Yes and its tiny so small that when I played devil may cry 1 he was tiny , though I don't watch much TV hardly much on

 

[MySoxSmell]

Sure do. I'm poor as hell, and my disposable income goes to my gaming PC.

basically this

also welcome to the escapist

 

[Owlslayer]

One HDtv for the family, and several normal ones. I don't really watch TV after i got my new PC.

 

[Mordwyl]

Yes, two of them. I couldn't give a toss if the latest game has smaller pixels on a more expensive piece of hardware.

 

[ilikepie59]

Had the same old crappy 19 inch CRT for decades, finally upgraded about a month ago to a 55 inch Samsung 3D LED.
(also, I know not many people have them, but seriously, I'm the only one in the poll so far who has a 3D TV?)

 

[Aleate]

I have one, but I don't actually use it. I use my new LCD TV as both a TV and a computer monitor... so yeah.

 

[HeySeansOnline]

Yeah, I don't feel the real need to upgrade, games look good enough already for me.

 

[TheLefty]

My mom claims our TV is older than I am (I'm be 16 next month) so yes, my main tv is standard definition. Reading to Codex in Mass Effect 2 was a pain, and I still have no idea what that scrolling text as the bottom of the Bad Company Two main page means.

 

[Sonic Doctor]

Don't even own a TV at all...

When I win the lottery, I will send you one. Seriously, I would be that giving if I did win the lottery. What's the point of being rich, if you don't use the money to make other people happy. I mean, if I was rich, there is only so much stuff I could buy for myself to make me happy. My actual material wants, would probably only set me back less than 100,000 dollars. So if I did win the lottery, I truly would be set for life. I seriously don't see how lottery winners go through like 100 million in a few years and go broke, that is really horrible money management.

they don't actually get the 100 mill do they though, they only get a yearly dividend on the lump sum or can take a much smaller amount straight away (or something)

anyway, I don't really want a TV, i have my nice 24inch monitor with HDMI if i need to hook up the 360 for a bit of SFIV action.

Oh, from the way your first post looked, I thought you were depressed that you didn't have a tv.

On the lottery thing, there are two ways of pay out. The yearly dividend, most likely for the rest of the person's life, or the lump sum taken straight way. There is some kind of program about this on one of the learning type cable channels. And from watching it, I personally would choose the lump sum.

There was one couple that won little over 200 million, they took the lump sum option and got something like 69 million dollars straight away.

Another reason I think a lump sum would be better is that you may get a check every year for the rest of your life with the yearly dividend, but I think in the long run you get less money, at least family wise, because, if you have family, and then you die, I don't think the lottery checks keep coming afterward.

Also, the yearly dividend is usually only a couple 100 thousand a year. And for some people, especially if they have bills to pay, my college loans for example, they wouldn't be able to live off that for a year.

Personally, if I was able to get a lump of millions of dollars, I wouldn't have to work, and I would get to concentrate on what I consider the most important goals in my life: Finding a nice girl to love and get married to, become a novelist/short story writer/poet, and continue my love of gaming and computers without monetary restrictions.