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your mother on 25 July 2007
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twesterm said:
TheSource said:

I hope they're not basing them on the so-called high-def revolution, because many people who have HDTVs are buying them because they're bigger and flatter, not because of picture quality, as evidenced by the fact that a lot of people have HDTVs without any HD content or signals.


To tell you the truth, that's why I bought my HDTV. Sure, a nicer picture is good, but I just wanted the bigger screen and something flat. The best thing I watch are DVD's and my cable/Tivo are all standard quality with a general fuzzy picture.


Same here. Actually, I wanted to replace my 29" CRT with another CRT when it conked out on me because I knew that without HD content LCDs tend to make images look crappy, but finding a CRT is becoming increasingly harder here in Hong Kong.

Why then are LCDs and plasmas selling like proverbial hotcakes over here? Being the most densely-populated country on Earth, the apartment sizes are small - I live in a 750-ish sq ft apartment and it's the largest size you can rent on the island where I live. Understandably, flat panels are a godsend in such space-resticted living areas.

It's only now (as in last week) that HD content has been officially announced by one provider, but I can guarantee that a good percentage of the HDTVs that sold before the advent of HD content in Hong Kong was due to form factor rather than picture quality (which again, if you project SD content on an HD screen it looks far far worse than CD or HD content on a CRT).