I Am NOT Buying an HDTV! Are You? (Blu-ray, Samsung, DVD)

[KevK]

Originally Posted by Fat Freddy

I'll bet your phonograph records sound fine on your wind up Victrola.
No need to buy CDs.

That is not true. CDs and MP3s are better sounding and take up much less physical space. Records cannot be played in a portable player or a vehicle. And I have a satellite radio too! I am not opposed to new things. I just do not see what I will gain from HDTV that I am not enjoying now.

[ara^bess]

Originally Posted by KevK

I just do not see what I will gain from HDTV that I am not enjoying now.

I feel pretty much the same way. My 15 year old got a 32" HDTV for Christmas and it does have a great picture, but I'm still just as happy with the regular TV I have in my bedroom.

[WeeMadArthur]

Originally Posted by ara^bess

I feel pretty much the same way. My 15 year old got a 32" HDTV for Christmas and it does have a great picture, but I'm still just as happy with the regular TV I have in my bedroom.

Maybe you and KevK need glasses.

[Fat Freddy]

When I got my HDTV I could actually read the credits at the end of movies.

[LexusNexus]

Originally Posted by KevK

Yes, they look good and I won't say never ever will I not buy one but I am not chomping at the bit to buy one. I have been looking at the same NTSC TV picture for almost 50 years now- even before it was in colour or cable was ever heard of. And it looks fine to me. I don't need it to look any better. I keep hearing about these converters that will allow me to keep my regular TV sets after the regular TV transmitters are shut off in a year but I have yet to see any in a store.

We don't watch enough TV to justify it.

[Tjukken]

Originally Posted by RayinAK

The free over the air TV channels will transmit digital video signals beginning in 2009. One can have paid TV (cable), most of which are digital,

Her acctuly evrything is digital i dident think about that. coz i have sattelite for a long time.

but just readed that we got just about ful digital cover here now.

And air chanels is also full digital. i now read.

And apperantly they gona start on free air 720P and 1080i Mpeg-4 HD in 1 or two years.

And i also notice that cabels and satelite channels offer full HD sendings.
So that meens i am closer to need a t full HD tv than i was aware of.

TJ..

[dfrench8456]

i just got a hdtv a few months ago and i dont know how i ever went without it

[ak_47_00]

I'll keep my 1980s Magnavox until it croaks. I have other priorities as of now.

[goldenmom7500]

Originally Posted by KevK

Yes, they look good and I won't say never ever will I not buy one but I am not chomping at the bit to buy one. I have been looking at the same NTSC TV picture for almost 50 years now- even before it was in colour or cable was ever heard of. And it looks fine to me. I don't need it to look any better. I keep hearing about these converters that will allow me to keep my regular TV sets after the regular TV transmitters are shut off in a year but I have yet to see any in a store.

I've never been one to go for big, new tv's. However, I recently moved and had to leave behind the tv, so I bought a 19 inch hdtv with a coupon, so it wasn't *that* expensive: around $350 with a built in dvd player. (The prices seem to pop beyond 19 inch). I have nothing good or bad to say - I did have to send one back because it broke and was sent a replacement very quickly. Sometimes, new optimized technologies can break more quickly and that is the sense I'm getting here.

[BrianH]

I have 0 plans to buy a HDTV. They are way too expensive. And the cheaper ones, even ones ive seen for $1500 have too much pixelation around the edges of things on the screen so its no way worth it IMO for me. Ill buy a beer instead.