It really does make a noticable different. It's more drastic than you would think.voorhees123 said:Also before i forget, when they sold the X360 and PS3 they kept going on about HD gaming blah blah blah. I wonder how many idiots rushed out and bought a brand new HDTV because of this?
I think this is the case of me not thinking I might be talking to someone not in the US. So our currency numbers aren't going to match up I don't think. I take it that you are in the UK, I'm not knowledgeable in currency types these days.Tipsy Giant said:You'd be surprised, I have seen HDTVs in the 40+ inch range going for 250 squid and that drops each time I have a goose, so I think I should be able to pick up a 32 for about 150 after new years 2011, pretty easilySonic Doctor said: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.Tipsy Giant said: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
i dont mean to give the impression that standard definition isnt good or that people are obligated to upgrade. if it werent for the fact that i cant read any text when i play ps3 games, i would never even consider buying an hd tv. ive actually found it refreshing to see that so many people still use standard definition. it seemed like everyone and their mom has an hd tv now and i was just curiousTenmar said:Sorry man your average consumer actually still owns a SD television even if we are talking about gamers. The cost despite the massive decrease and the ability to use monitors is still too high for a good deal of families.00slash00 said: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.
Think of it this way. In the United States there is still a third of the entire US population that does not have a home internet connection. So forcing an entire community to buy new expensive televisions is still too high of an entry just for a video game console.
Even I still use an SD television. If I had a 360 I could use a VGA port connector for my monitor but even that still technically isn't an HD monitor(5:4 ratio 1280x1024). So for now long live the CRT television!
EDIT: Besides how the heck am I supposed to play Duck Hunt?
Most definitely. A couple years ago, before I got my HDtv, I got my XBox 360 Elite with the Halo 3/Fable 2 bundle. I remember how people always were like oh wow Halo 3's graphics are great. I played it on my 27 inch tube tv and I was like, "Meh, yeah it has better graphics than I have played before but it doesn't look cutting edge." Then, my dad went on vacation and asked me to watch his house for the week, and he had just got a 32 inch 1080p Sony HDtv. I hooked up my 360, popped in Halo 3, and I was floored by how much a difference it is. Worlds apart difference. The graphics were so shiny and sleek, instead of seeing globs of green that I took as grass, I could see individual blades of grass. I was thinking, "I wonder if my dad will mind if I steal his tv." Then a year later I got mine.JUMBO PALACE said:It really does make a noticable different. It's more drastic than you would think.voorhees123 said:Also before i forget, when they sold the X360 and PS3 they kept going on about HD gaming blah blah blah. I wonder how many idiots rushed out and bought a brand new HDTV because of this?
There is some difference when it comes to watching tv, I don't get a fuzzy picture anymore. You really see the difference if you compare the two with a gaming console. I won't repeat my story about that, see the post I made before this one.omega 616 said:Nope still SD, the thing is I want to keep up with every other person on the planet but I can never see the difference.
I have never been able to tell the difference between SD and HD, it doesn't look any clearer or sharper to me ... I think I just want it as a space saving thing.
I was living in a homeless shelter thing and decided to LAN my SD tv with a friends HD tv, we put the TV next to each other and I had to look closely to see any difference.Sonic Doctor said:There is some difference when it comes to watching tv, I don't get a fuzzy picture anymore. You really see the difference if you compare the two with a gaming console. I won't repeat my story about that, see the post I made before this one.omega 616 said:Nope still SD, the thing is I want to keep up with every other person on the planet but I can never see the difference.
I have never been able to tell the difference between SD and HD, it doesn't look any clearer or sharper to me ... I think I just want it as a space saving thing.