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And I stand by that HD tv's only have slightly better picture quality. When you try to play non-HD channels or movies on an HDTV, it looks terrible. When you play them on a normal TV, they look fine. Perhaps because the image is projected differently. I don't know. Justin?
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Yeah, as a general rule of thumb standard def pictures look CRAP on an HDTV, while they perfectly acceptable if not damn good on an "old" standard def set.
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Not to mention that once you're ten minutes into a movie, it's not like you are really going to notice that superior picture quality anyway. Watching dramas in HD really adds nothing, and watching special effects movies, all it does is highlight flaws.
Now a piece of eighties tech that has turned out to be crap is my NES. But then again, I'll blame that on the terrible North American design that has too many moving parts. My Atari 2600 still works like a charm though, and those carts are tough.
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Good point! I also think the desired effect of HD is to 'pull you' into another reality, and this I am wary of. We're already a bunch of disconnected boobs as it is.
Don't know if you know but FYI you can change the cartridge slot in your NES to solve the problems inherent with it. The little contact fingers get weak and make bad or intermittent connection which causes the blinking/gray screen problem. Part is under $10.