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<<<So if your only goal is to only watch at 27" then I agree with you that the difference would not be worth a massive premium. But then again, HDTV is probably going to come down in price a great deal before it is all over with>>
Too me it was only worth it because I don't have cable and finally wanted a big screen tv. I didn't see any huge price premium for HDTV, it just seemed like a price premium for a big set capable of much sharper pictures. To me, buying a cheaper 50 inch tv that doesn't do HD and only does standard def is just blowing a OK picture up to look rotten and would be flushing the money down the toilet. If that's what I wanted to see I would have just stuck with my 27" Sylvania. So I went with an HD bigscreen with built-in HD tuner, and I love the thing to death. I will agree that some tv stations are REALLY good at broadcasting their standard def content and it looks pretty damn good on 50 inches., i.e. as good as you could possibly get standard def to look... but standard cable shows? Yuck, too low quality, pixelization, compression artifacts, etc.
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