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Originally Posted by oldtvman
Understand I,m not disputing the natural progression to Digital television, my point of the thread was that I have lived through the introduction of both, and in my mind there is little comparison between the excitment of seeing color tv for the first time vs seeing digital television,
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What did you first view HDTV on? (I mean HDTV, not just 'digital television', which could just be plain old standard definition). I don't think you can really see the full effect of HDTV unless it is on a newer plasma or other recent screens and on a BIG one, the bigger the better (50 inches and bigger), and something in 1080i.
I remember when I first started thinking about HDTV, the sets were a lot smaller and not nearly as good as they are now and I didn't bite. Would have been same with color for me probably too. I wouldn't have bought HDTV when I first saw it any more than I would have bought a CT-100 with that dinky little screen roundish screen compared to the much biger rectangular b/w 'big' screens.
The bigger the set, the better and better HDTV looks than standard def, and the more standard def starts to look very cheesy looking, akin to a kinescope.
Again I point out comparing to HDTV to standard def on a big screen, if you watch hdtv for an hour and then put it back on regular tv, you will squint and say "eeeewwwww!" I guarantee it, if you have good eyes. You will NOT do that switching between color and b/w no matter how much you look at color. That indicates HDTV is not some minor improvement in TV compared to color introduction.