HDTV's

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I've watched segments of videos on a few HDTVs at the local Fry's Electronics, and watched a decently sized plasma display on a recent company trip. The picture's sharp with HDTV content to be sure, although sometimes they obviate compression artifacts that wouldn't be noticeable on a screen with lesser resolution. The plasma I played with had a horrible scaler for regular content through one of its ports, although the thing was so non-obvious to configure that we spent a good 20 minutes trying to get the super bowl on it. When we did finally get the game on the set, the grass had this sparkle effect that was rather distracting throughout the game. To be honest, the resolution difference on ideal content is just not enough to make me want to part with a grand or two for a display at least as large as the regular SDTV that I have. I'm not buying a smaller TV just for the higher resolution, and I'll not buy one of the relatively inexpensive projection televisions based on the less than stellar images they produce in the stores. My next TV will probably be a flat screen, mostly because my current TV takes two people to move and I nearly put my back out moving it last time. It will also probably be HDTV capable since everything likely will be by that time, I'm guessing about 2 years from now, but I'll be sure to purchase a model that plays my current SDTV content with reasonable quality. If it doesn't, I'll just return it for a better model since that's likely to still be a lot of the content I have.