Why bother going TFT HD?

[dannyjo22]

I'm just curious as to why so many who try to get the next 1% performance from gfx cards and cpu's can put up with such poor pictures with a standard signal on tft's?

The reason i ask is my wife is bugging me to change our perfectly good 28 inch panny CRT Tv for a Tft in the 32-40 inch bracket. The TV will sit in the same place.

Now ive seen HD signals played through TV's and they are stunning but how are so many early adopters putting up with the poor standard signal. After all 90% of our tv watching or using is standard video, so why adopt and HD tft so early?

I just cannot bear the signal that you get watching Standard source, why pay £1200 or more for something that clearly doesnt beat my panny.

What am I missing, to me it's like launching the xbox 360 3 years before there are any games for it.

 

[dannyjo22]

Your wife is telling you to upgrade your TV?

Where can i get one of these women that activly encourage the upgrading of equipment?
Getting things to pass the WAF (wife acceptance factor) is one of the hardest things in AV. "I can't see/hear the difference", "But eastenders looks fine on this TV"

Yeah she wants a 40 inch Sammy, I want to keep the Crt or 32 inch max sammy. I watch about 2 hours of TV per week and thats all SD. She has sky plus which she records what seems like everything. I'm trying to tell her that until there is more HD content its not worth it.

So when HD sky comes out that will mean the sky plus boxes will need changing too?

XD 3 I play my 360 off the main tv, so there are clashes of interest shall we say I play it upstairs on my dell 2405. Which isnt as good as a HD tv but its not bad. I know its a glimpse of how good the 360 picture would be on a HD TV but I dont see why people rushed out to buy when we dont havve the signal yet.

One of my mates rushed out and brought the new 32 inch panasonic XD500 or something like that. About £1700 worth. He only watches normal TV, has the 5 channels only and rarely watches a DVD. Doesnt play games. I really didnt see the point.

So when are the HD sky plus systems out?