Poll: Does anyone still own a standard definition tv?

[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.

 

[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.