HDTV vs color television

Well as a younger man 36 I don't appreciate the value of old tv's. I remember when if as a kid you had a tv in your room it was black and white. I also remember wrapping tin foil on the antennas and forcing my brother with threats of a beating if he didn't stand there holding them in a certain direction so the picture would come in. I remember how cool it was in the early 90's when I could finally afford a 27" TV I thought I was big pimping!

To me I don't find anything more thrilling than watching HDTV on my 51" HDTV. I even watch awful movies like "White Chicks" just so I can see it in HD

[uofmtiger]

THOR,
Your situation is similar to mine. I remember putting a hanger into the broken antenna on my B&W TV to be able to pick up local stations. I also remember that I would go sit down and the picture would be out of whack again. I apparently worked better as an antenna than the hanger.
I do not have any romantic feeling for watching poor quality TV. I prefer watching the older movies on HDnet in HD.

MPEG2 HDTV can be very good but have fast motion in sports or a fast dissolve and it looks noisy

The TV you watched was not setup properly (sharpness was probably too high) or you were watching an interlaced HDTV of a very, very fast moving sport. Many of the newer TVs use a progressive signal (720P) and this does not have the one half screen refresh issues that you see on 1080i. Progressive is used by Fox and Espn because of this issue. All of that being said, I still think the picture on 1080i is better than 480i regardless of the fast motion.