Ok, I may be completely wrong with this, but, all you need to do are some simple calculations and you will see that on the calculation end of it, there is clearly a difference. A 720p tv has 921,600 total pixels. To counter that, a 1080p tv has 2,073,600 pixels. That is over twice as many pixels. On a smaller tv, you probably won't notice the difference, but when you have a tv that is 32 inches or bigger, you are telling me that people won't notice the difference between 921k pixels and 2 m pixels. I'm pretty sure I could tell that somebody with 2 million hairs on their head has more hair than somebody with 921k hairs on their head from a distance of 15 feet.

If you sit at the right distance. You can see the difference between the resolutions. I've done this to my friends. I sat 4 feet from their TV's and they went threw stations. I pointed which ones where 720 and 1080. I got two stations wrong out of 10. Res is pointless, if you sit really far away. DVD would look great from far away. And 1080 isn't really Full HD. It won't be for long. Film has a resolution equivalent to 2160p. 3840X2160. So in 5-10 years, we will all be doing this nonsense over again.

To me the most important thing about HD sets is the much better colour tones and the lighting in games looks much more vibrant. The res is noce, but the least important of overall quality IMO. SD just has piss poor colour in comparison.

Looks like my 720p decision was spot on according to hsrob's graph.

I do think too much HD can be detrimental to suspension of disbelief in many instances, not just in porn.

I made a thread a while back noting that the fakeness of the fake sets in Saving Private Ryan become glaringly obvious in glorious full HD, thus pulling you out of the immersion into the world of the movie.

I had the same sort of experience watching Avatar when I went for my semi-regular lunchtime electronic gadgets perv session at the nearest electronics store to my work. It was Avatar on blu-ray playing on a full HD LED TV. The image was incredibly crisp and detailed, Soooooo much more than my 720p TV. But what it ended up doing was accentuating the fakeness of the CGI world created in Avatar, especially around the things that CGI struggles with (hair, and contact between 2 surfaces). At the glorious full HD resolution the CGI-ness of the hair of the Na'avi creatures was made more obvious than it is at lower resolutions, and the unnaturalness of 2 surfaces coming into contact with one another (i.e. it still looks like one surface is floating ever so slightly above the other when seen from the side) is also more obvious.

So in some respects I think I prefer a lower res image because it helps to keep me immersed in the fantasy by fakeness being less obvious.

Too much of a good thing and all that.

Gaming wise, though, I think you can never have too much HDness, given we are coming from a world of having to pretend boxy images on a screen are people and creatures and scenery.

I didn't read it. I read the first couple sentences.

However, there is a huge difference between 720p and 1080p. Wii sackfans such as myself said that because we are jealous of the technological advancements of the HD consoles.

EDIT: I read it. And it makes sense. Glad I got a 720p set.

I have 3 tv sets a 32''480p EDtv, 42''720p and a 46''1080i and the best picture of all is the 1080i when I watch HD movies on them.

It also comes down to brand quality,  you cant compare a low end brand like VIZIO or OLEVIA 720p/1080p hdtv with a Toshiba or Sony 720p/1080p hd

A 45'' screen @1080p give you the benefit to sit closer to it and enjoy a pixel perfect image,  unlike the same 45''screen @720p you have to sit farther away in order for you not notice some pixel imperfectiones.

I agree with most games you would get 720p across all HDTV even on a 1080p.

I would say any game or movie sub 720p is consider 480p... I've compared "SUB" 720p games on a 720p hdtv with a 480p EDTV and there is hardly to non of a difference there.

Now i can see a huge difference when I see a 1080p display in movies, tv shows broadcast in 1080p ect.

You watch a blu-ray movie on a 1080p display and it looks live, it looks like you looking through a window, it looks like it was filmed live without the grayish movie filter and grainy effect, is like watching it in soap opra format but its a movie.  (hard to explain)

I said that cus my friend just bought the lastest Samsung 55'' LED 1080p HDTV, is as thin as a laptop monitor alone, the picture quality looks unreal, unbelievable, breath-taking.

He wanted to buy the Samsung 3D HDTV instead and I told him not too, I think is not worth it .

I want to upgrade to this TV so bad but I have to stretch my old investment that I already have.