Poll: Does anyone still own a standard definition tv?

[Assassin Xaero]

Umm... yeah, I'm too poor to buy a hi-def one... it's called college student...

 

[zehydra]

It's hard to want to spend a lot of money on an HD tv when it's going to be obsolete in a few years, the way this market is rapidly expanding.

"Does anyone still own an HD-TV? I thought everyone moved on to 3D-Super Plasma FX 3000 by now!"

 

[Riddle78]

Why yes,I do own an SD TV. And,it's a CRT-TV,to boot! I never really understood why people jumped for HD. I saw HD television on an HD TV before,and I saw and heard no difference. And 3D is never gonna take off until they can cheaply project a hologram in the room.

 

[TheRundownRabbit]

I have one in my room and in the closet

 

[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.

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.

Will you go with blurry line #1 or #2? Well, blurry line #2's blurriness look's more threatening, so #1.

 

[Kris015]

Yeah, i have both.

 

[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.

Will you go with blurry line #1 or #2? Well, blurry line #2's blurriness look's more threatening, so #1.

pretty much "I see help in there! I'll pick that one! Oh shit, he just told them to go to hell... Damnit"

 

[thenumberthirteen]

I got a HDTV a couple years back for my PS3 that was in my room, but last year my parents bought a 42" HDTV as the main TV. The old one is in another room.

I remember when I first plugged my PS3 into a HDTV at my friends house after I bought it, and I just knew I had to get one of those I've still yet to try 3D TV. Maybe it'll be cool.

 

[dex-dex]

I do!
it is the only television in my house that is not owned by a douchebag brother.

 

[-Samurai-]

My TV is SD and I see no point in making the switch now. It's only 3 years old, so it has a long life ahead of it.

 

[Hap2]

Yes, I have an old 20" Sony CRT TV in my room, I use it to play older games since the newer TVs tend to smudge and blur things.

 

[gregitaly]

Still got a SDTV, which is why I bought a 250 DSi instead of an equally priced 360, because I would've also needed an hdtv to play games like Mass Effect and Dragon Age.

 

[Susan Arendt]

Well, I have three TVs in my house: two widescreen HD and one standard that's about the size of a Buick. If you can afford to get an HD, I find it's completely and utterly worth it, especially if you're a gamer.

 

[Dogstile]

Yup I have 3 SDtv's and for the most part I don't mind using them, but really someone should tell video game makers that everybody doesn't have an HDtv yet so stop making the dang writing so impossible to read when played on an SDTV

yea thats pretty much the only reason ive been saving for an hdtv. i mean better resolution would be nice but i think the graphics look just fine on standard definition. its the text that kills me. if i need to read a mission objective or look at a map on the pause screen or navigate a blue ray menu, its a complete guessing game. when i played the darkness, i couldnt read any of my missions or where to go next, so i would spend hours and hours wandering around, hoping i would bump into my next mission objective. at least its comforting to know that im not alone

Its even worse in dead rising. Dear god that game had bad text.

HD tv is overrated. You know those adverts that show you something that looks really good on the screen of a high def tv? It's still showing on my TV, so obviously it's not that special

 

[CroutonsOfDeath]

Yep. I don't watch a ton of TV and I've got a 1080p monitor, so I don't see the point in trading up to a HD TV. Besides I like the feel of an old TV for my older systems.

 

[ssgt splatter]

Nope. Every TV in my house is a HD TV.
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Oh and for the 3 of you who said you have a 3D TV at the time I posted this, I hate you. I want a 3D TV too.

 

[Serenegoose]

I don't have an HDTV, and if it wasn't for the fact that I can't read the text on my games on an SDTV, I'd not upgrade. As it is, it's still a low priority purchase on account of televisions being ridiculously expensive. I cannot afford one at present. Still, might get a PC monitor and just use it instead - that sounds like a pretty good idea. I'd use my current one, but generally my 360 is used by my girlfriend to play some shit like Fifa whilst I'm gaming on my PC, so it's not like that's a great solution.