[quote name='jkam'] It basically gives people the chance to fill the void in their life by spending a ridiculous amount of money on a TV. They can show all their friends how cool they are and tell them how much money they spent on their latest technological wonder. I'm paying no interest at Best Buy for a year! In reality what you have is a nice TV with a sharper image. Yes I have seen and even played games on a HDTV and it looks nice but that is about it. For those of you who own one and say its so amazing I can never go back then I feel bad for you because you would have to throw away all your non-HD games which include some amazing games. Yes I can afford to buy a HDTV but I will wait until they cost about what TVs do now. Remember if a game looks good but sucks it still sucks.[/QUOTE]
Okay, first of all, tell me how spending $140 on a Philips/Magnavox/RCA 20 inch SD set, or spending $250 on a 24 inch Toshiba or Sony SD set, is in anyway frugal or intelligent, when there are several 30 inch plus HDTV's avaialble for as low as $400.
And now, for facts, HD is not just "sharper", HD is actually more than twice the amount of information on screen. When you are viewing true HD, you are viewing a widescreen image that gives you many more advantages. For example, in a sporting event, you can see more of the field, more of the movement, as much as possible that can fit in a 16:9 space. The views are panoramic, everything is on a grand scale. And when you're watching movies, you are viewing what the director intended, as much as 33 percent more image, and the whole shot [what the camera was actually seeing]
Not only that, HD is showing not only more color, more detail, more "sharpness", but is plain showing more lines of resolution, more actual information on screen, therefore it's not just "more sharp", but you're actually seeing more details and more aspects of the image viewable on the screen.
Millions of consumers buy shit $90 sets at Wal-Mart, they replace them every year or use them until they're completely out of service, they spend more money on cables and adapters so that they can watch DVD's, digital cable, and play new consoles, because their TV's are bare minimum and can't accept a standard signal. What business do you have playing an Xbox 360 or a PS3 if you need to buy a $20 RF adapter so you can hook it up via the coax antenna input?
So yeah, your post is almost to the point of being threadcrapping, trolling, because having an HDTV doesn't make a person scum of the Earth, it doesn't make them any less intelligent, and it doesn't mean their lives are empty: it just means they have discerning taste and expect the best from everything they own.
I'd be glad to hear your argument about how all these "new" cars with air conditioning, air bags, CD players, anti lock breaks, and on board computers are useless pieces of shit that only make people feel better about their pointless existence.