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Topic: HDTV

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Yeah, but whats the point if I feel no need to get one?

Just like I could go buy a couple thousand dollar desk and it will kick ass, but whats the point if I'm happy with what I have?

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Epifols posted:
Do not want

1)Don't even have room
2)Wayy to expensive
3)Hell, this house does not have a single hooked up TV, instead it has 6 computers hooked up.



1) mine is 22" would fit well even in a jail cell
2) total cost $279

I run my computer and 360 on it, it could handle the cable and dvd player but I don't have HD cable or a HD dvd player. But the joys of using my computer on a wide screen and playing the 360 is well worth the couple of hundred I spent on it.

 

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I don't think Epifols even owns any consoles though. Although I agree with what's being said about playing PC games on a widescreen HDTV/monitor.

 

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When I was forced to get a new monitor last month I set myself up for later to an extent by getting a 20" Samsung HD ready TV/PC monitor for £180. It's nice.

http://www.froogle.richersounds.com/showproduct.php?cda=showproduct&pid=SAMS-SM2032MW

It has got to the stage where I think HD TV's are resonably priced, but it's the stuff you need to buy or subscribe to to use it that is the problem. I can't afford a next gen console, blue ray drive and movies, or a digital TV subscription.

So in answer to your question, yes I have one but can't afford to use it for HD. I've seen sunsets on these screens it amazes me how good it looks.

 


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I don't have an HDTV, a next gen console, or a Blue Ray player. During the school year, I live in a Fraternity house (at a Technical school), so there are plenty of high-end TVs, in fact, our chef who lives in the house has a 60" HDTV with surround sound and Blue Ray player. He's a movie buff, so he has a few HD movies that look amazing. Even older movies look great on it, but that may be a placebo effect.

I'm at home for the summer and we have a 30' or so TV with an antenna (see 'dremmy's description). DVDs look fine on it, but television is fuzzy and blurry, not enough to ruin the show, but enough for me to notice.

When the next semester starts I'm going to pick up a TV (non-HD) off craigslist, now that people are upgrading to HD, I can get another monitor for my computer to watch movies on.

 

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Fetts_Vette posted:

Only downside I've found from owning an HDTV: you become spoiled, and all your old SD content really starts to look like crap once you've watched stuff in HD.


Tell me about it. I struggle to watch our 20-year-old General Electric TV inside anymore due to its standard definition unwidescreeniness.

Even the semi-standard def Wii games look decent on our Samsung telly when the component cables are used. Though the aliasing is much more noticeable of course.

I also love how our Samsung has its own VGA port so we can hook up our PC to it. Sure a DVI port would have been better so we could avoid adapters but the picture still looks fantastic. I'm planning to modify an old Pentium 4 PC we have lying around for use as an HTPC.

 


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Samsung 40" HDTV, it was in many high-end magazines as the best choice.
We got it 1800Eu. I also have my PS3 for movie playback(games also ofc) and I love the picture so far.

 

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It seems more and more people are going the HTPC route, or running gaming PCs on HDTVs.

I was doing some pricing on monoprice.com and found I could get a 6-foot DVI-to-HDMI cable and a 6-foot optical audio cable for under $20 delivered. A USB wireless NIC would cost me a little over $20 from Newegg.

That'd be all I needed if I wanted to move my PC out into the front room and hook it up to my HDTV and home theater.

I become more tempted every day, I just don't know where I would put the dang computer. There's really no convenient or esthetically pleasing place for it in the front room atm.

The idea of playing World of Warcraft from my recliner in front of that setup is pretty damn appealing though. WoW supports the 1080p resolution natively too.

 

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Our old-school low-res TV at home is on its last legs, so I guess we will be making the jump to high def there soon. It's just a matter of when I get around to buying one, or if my mother beats me to it, or if the TV we have dies first and my father beats me to it. Who knows? I sure as hell don't.

 

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Wow. I'm watching nu-Doctor Who episodes on my HDTV that won't appear in the States for awhile thanks to the internet. I could never seriously watch things besides games and youtube type nonsense on my monitor before. A whole new world has opened to me. Oh, and P.S. much kudos to (well, I guess I won't give away spoilers) the villains in the final two episodes, I haven't seen this level of villainy since Thanos during the comic book Infinity Gauntlet series.

 


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I hafta say, the jump to HD has been worth it. And the things are damn versatile; I can hook up the Wii, the PS3, and the PC onto the TV and still get cable. Who cares if it's materialistic? Materialism is the engine that drives the economy, and the economy is the engine that drives humanity's empire over the planet, and the force behind it's continued evolution and advancement! So if you DON'T buy an HDTV, you're essentially helping our civilization fall to ruin! So I hope you're happy!

 

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The first internet site I looked at after I connected the PC to the HDTV was YouPorn, so, now you know.

 


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YouPorn and Redtube are always grainy. It seems a waste of HDTV use, to me...

 

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I found PornKolt worked okay. The video quality varies greatly from clip to clip though.

They just need to make it so that Netflix's streaming capability works through the PS3 web browser and I would be happy as hell. Right now it only works through Windows and IE. It annoys me so much that they don't support even Firefox that I haven't installed the streaming software yet, but I've watched stuff on my girlfriend's comp.

I also found a few websites that offer 1080p photos to use as wallpapers. I usually save them on my PC and stream them to the PS3. Nature photos tend to look gorgeous at that resolution. I've found some really eye-catching pics to use as wallpaper on my PS3.

 

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Don't need one, don't even want one. The only thing I would use it for is to watch TV (I'm not hooking up my PC to one and I don't have a game console) and I rarely watch TV anyway. Even with that, the quality isn't noticeably different for me given the size of the TVs I watch. So why should I bother?

Most of the people I talk to are excited about it because they can hook up their game consoles to it or because they want to upgrade from some shitty projector TV you need to sit 40 feet away from to watch. Neither of those are me.

 

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