SDTV? Where'd they go?!

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Kwaad said:

I was at wal-mart the other day, and spent about 2 hours looking at their TVs. I was amazed I saw HDTVs from 200$ Up to 1500$. What amazed me more, was I saw a 42inch LCD HDTV for 950$. As I was leaving I noticed something major. The smallest TVs were HDTVS. The biggest were HDTVs. The cheapest were HDTVs. And the most expensive were HDTVs. Wait. Where's the SDTVs?!?!

My local wal-mart no-longer sells SDTVs. HDTV is here, HDTV is today. It is no longer the future.

EDIT: HDTV is still the future as well, but it is also the present.

C'mon Kwaad, lets be a little more specific than that ;)

For instance - most sets now sold in Australia would count as "HDTV" in some form.

BUT - and its a big BUT - essentially NONE OF THEM are full 1080p sets. None. Zero. Zilch. Last time I checked out a major TV retailer, I counted two 1080p sets in the entire store - and they started at about $5,500. The other 100+ sets were either 480p or 720p.

People are pretty happy with either solution, and the average person wouldn't have any idea what the difference was anyway - besides the price.

I'll probably be getting a new display soon - and I'll be aiming for a 720p plasma 42'' display (preferably Panasonic or Phillips, and preferably with NaturalMotion/100hz interpolation tech).

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So yes - HDTV is the future. But this isn't the HDTV that is PS3 friendly (if that was the point you were trying to make?).