Poll: HD or SD?

[krychek57]

I Love HD. Though I'm a cheap man with only a 34" Tube style it does the trick and looks great.
It only cost me $40 used so it was well worth the price.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

I remember taking the SDTV I had for years to university with me.

When I cam home for the holidays and used my parent's HDTV, I couldn't really see that much of a difference.

That all change when I went back to uni and started using my shitty old TV.

It was like I had eye cancer.

 

[EMFCRACKSHOT]

I could never go back to SD. I have my 47" HD 3D tv in the front room for all my film watching needs, and my 32" tv and 24" moniter (both HD as well =P) in my bedroom for all my gaming purposes. I would have the 47" in the bedroom instead or the games consoles in the front room, but there isn't enough room for it and i like to play games in bed xD

 

[Malyc]

Was playing on a standard def TV until christmas... I think it was probably about 15 years old as well... I hooked up to the HD tv i got for christmas, and there was a slight drop in picture quality until i went out and got an HDMI cable for it. Now it's so clear I don't know that I could ever go back.

 

[Smertnik]

It's such a huge difference, it's not even funny. You can hardly read any text on SD most of the time and the HD picture is so much clearer and sharper. I don't see any reason not to use a HDTV when your hardware supports it.

 

[Frybird]

HD, due to the 360.

First i switched to my CRT Monitor, and even though it was technically smaller, i knew i couldn't go back.

I switched to a larger LCD Monitor until i finally bought a HDTV some years ago.

Since then, i had to play Rockband on an SDTV twice and it. is. HORRIBLE.

EDIT: Funny, just two hours ago i heard a work colleague of mine complaining that Skyrim on an SDTV is unplayable due to text size. Gonna borrow her my old 360=>VGA cable, probably with a cryptic message about how "there will be no going back"

 

[Buzz Killington_v1legacy]

I bought my first (and current) HDTV after squinting my eyes out of my skull trying to make out the symbols in the security bypass minigame in Mass Effect 2 on an SDTV.

 

[iTwitch]

I've never owned an HD tv, we should be getting one soon which is about dang time! I recently went round to my mates who's parents just brought a lovely 3d tv. Playing Gears of War 3, in 3d, in awe.

 

[Iwata]

It's such a huge difference, it's not even funny. You can hardly read any text on SD most of the time and the HD picture is so much clearer and sharper. I don't see any reason not to use a HDTV when your hardware supports it.

That is very much true. I'm holding off playing a couple of games until I can get my sister's TV back for a bit, or get a new HD tv, simply because, as you mention, the text is all but unreadable.

It is interesting to note, however, that some older games DO look better on an SD TV, for some reason that eludes me.

 

[SpaceBat]

Even if those big old TV CRT's provide better visuals than HDTV's, most games have stopped supporting them a long time ago. I've been using a HDTV for a couple of years now.

 

[Total LOLige]

I always game in HD. SD just doesn't do it for me nowadays everything looks so shit.

 

[twistedheat15]

my HD died on me (circuitboard) and im using a 32' sanyo SD. please kill me.

Youre already dead, and in hell for that matter. Didnt the tv give that away?