HDTV's

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EDIT: When I run my TV as my monitor I drop the resolution down to 720p I see none of the artifacts your talking about, and it makes the text bigger. (I know there is an option to make the stuff bigger, but I dual-screen it... and i dont want to change it on my monitor)

In that case, you don't really need such a high resolution then. The moderate boost from 480 to 720 lines of resolution is apparently sufficient for your purposes, and you should be fine with 1024x768 (or 1366x768 with a 16:9 aspect ratio display) on your PC. I'm curious as to what you would have thought of PAL video, which has about 576 lines of resolution albeit at 50hz per field (25fps). For most people, even 480 lines is sufficient.

And at 5feet. I just choke on nonHD content. Not being able to see each eyelash, each wrinkle, each speck of facial hair... You just dont know what your missing untill you have one and spend time watching it.

I'll live I'm still using S-Video connections, and am more than happy with the results.