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HDTV
Author:  Mazer [ Fri Jun 02, 2006 8:12 pm ]
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Yes or no. Also (just for conversation), are you planning to get one?
Author:  Dan [ Fri Jun 02, 2006 8:47 pm ]
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Nope, for noraml t.v. use HDTV is pointless and a wast of moeny. I keep seeing cable comapnys advertsiing HD chanels and HD cable boxs but why??

Most of the stuff i watch on t.v. dose not bordcast in HD and even if it did it whould not look any better. Your average t.v. show dose not have masive spesial effects or anything that realy needs to be high deftion. For example talk shows, news, sitcoms, reality t.v., and almost anything that is not using spesial effects is not going to take adavagte of this.

Where i dose come in how ever is gaming and some movies that have lots of cool CGI. But hostly for the price tag right now i could live with slightly less cool CGI in movies, i mean if you whont great looking movies go to the movies Razz.

So buying an HDTV combiatal tv for just gaming? I don't know if it is going to be worth it or even efordable to buy a HD combaital tv + a new gneration gaming console + games.
Author:  [Gandalf] [ Fri Jun 02, 2006 9:38 pm ]
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Nope, I'm just fine with my 27" CRT TV, I don't see the difference much for TV, and I don't do a lot of console gaming... Maybe if more things take advantage of it in the future... Though I doubt it'll be any time soon.

Basically, I agree with Dan.
Author:  rizzix [ Sat Jun 03, 2006 10:17 am ]
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HDTV? Well, the gamming experience is pretty good, provided you have the graphics card to support it.
Author:  Andy [ Sun Jun 04, 2006 8:10 pm ]
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i had the exact same mindset as dan and gandalf.. until i saw the sony bravia.. now i'm saving every penny just to get one
Author:  codemage [ Mon Jun 05, 2006 1:57 pm ]
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I have a CRT-style widescreen HDTV that I got for a sweet price on stock clearance.

It's very nice for movies and occasional console gaming - although I don't watch enough TV to justify paying more for HD programming.
Author:  Martin [ Mon Jun 05, 2006 8:41 pm ]
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I take the roundabout HDTV test. I call up my buddy John and ask him, "Hey, do you know anyone with HDTV? No? Good, because you know me."
Author:  s3arkay [ Wed Jun 21, 2006 3:21 pm ]
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I don't have one but I am wishing to get one sometime soon
Author:  Andy [ Wed Jun 21, 2006 10:05 pm ]
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Martin wrote:
I take the roundabout HDTV test. I call up my buddy John and ask him, "Hey, do you know anyone with HDTV? No? Good, because you know me."


would that be john sun? Laughing
Author:  bugzpodder [ Tue Sep 26, 2006 1:54 pm ]
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well im getting a new TV, so might as well get a LCD HDTV... maybe i can plug my laptop in it!
Author:  ZeroPaladn [ Wed Sep 27, 2006 12:59 pm ]
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No HDTV here, and frankly i dont mind the absence of that all new surround sound for the few hours i do play my console games. Not worth the money, IMO.
Author:  War_Caymore [ Wed Sep 27, 2006 1:35 pm ]
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HDTV, in my house... HA! My stepdad won't even buy a bloody new computer. what makes you think that i would ahve one in my hosue...

Shocked Embarassed Rolling Eyes

sorry i got a little angry there.

ya my house is set back in 1991, the most up-to-date thing we got is windows XP home.
Author:  Silent Avenger [ Wed Sep 27, 2006 3:17 pm ]
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Yes there is an HDTV in my house in which I had to fork over $3000 for half of it and my parents covered the other half. It's an LCD widescreen which saved about 50% more energy than our old CRT TV. I find it great for gaming but not much else. I suggest if you have the money and have a use for it then get one but otherwise I think a normal TV would do.
Author:  BenLi [ Thu Sep 28, 2006 6:42 pm ]
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I have a HDTV widescreen...not that I actually use the HDTV...
but concerning gaming, I find a good sound system more influencial on the experience than a huge tv
Author:  ZeroPaladn [ Fri Sep 29, 2006 12:29 pm ]
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BenLi wrote:
I have a HDTV widescreen...not that I actually use the HDTV...
but concerning gaming, I find a good sound system more influencial on the experience than a huge tv

To each his own, I still prefer gameplay over sound/graphics anyday, but they still add to the experience. (go FF1!)
Author:  War_Caymore [ Wed Oct 04, 2006 11:40 am ]
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ZeroPaladn wrote:

To each his own, I still prefer gameplay over sound/graphics anyday, but they still add to the experience. (go FF1!)


Yeah! Go final fantasy III. anyways, on the specks of HDTV, i'm getting a HD projector for my room, and one of my walls are going to be pained white jsut for the occasion. Dont' know when i'm getting it though.
Author:  Clayton [ Thu Oct 05, 2006 10:45 pm ]
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wow, you have enough room in your room (no pun intended) for a projector?!?!? i wish i had that kind of space in mine

and just so this post has some meaning, no i dont own an HDTV, although i do want one, as i do quite a bit of console gaming
Author:  Mazer [ Fri Oct 06, 2006 9:21 am ]
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Projectors aren't all that big. Hugely expensive... but physically, smaller than a couple of shoeboxes side by side.
Author:  Dan_ [ Fri Oct 06, 2006 12:11 pm ]
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I'm a college student, I can't afford the 75 cents to wash a load of clothes, or the 50 cents to dry them!!
Author:  md [ Fri Oct 06, 2006 2:28 pm ]
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Oh how I wish I could get an old 12"-15" LCD with a broken backlight... how quickly I'd have a projector...
Author:  Clayton [ Sat Oct 07, 2006 8:58 pm ]
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Mazer wrote:
Projectors aren't all that big. Hugely expensive... but physically, smaller than a couple of shoeboxes side by side.


i meant he had enough room to make it worthwhile to have a projector in his room, i know how big (or small) they are, i just meant its pretty cool to have a big enough room to make a projector worthwhile Very Happy
Author:  War_Caymore [ Wed Oct 11, 2006 2:02 pm ]
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i got about 15ft form wall to wall, so that would make about a 60" tv in my room. mount it on the celing form one end of my room and make it project to the other end of my room and voila! Pretty big screen of which i can hook up my PC, and cable to. not to mention feed the sound through my amp and play Quake1 and keep a bedpan ready jsut in case i scare myself too much...

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