Right on target. Both the comic and the Boing Boing commentary on it.
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It’s boring and unnecessary for TV, though nearly impossible to get standard-def TVs now anyway now that standard-def needs an adaptor in the US to work, so you might as well get an HDTV, albeit not a huge one unless you’re a movie fanatic or something.
HDTV though is very useful for an Xbox 360 or PS3 gaming console, which is why I got the cheapest decent one at the time (something marketed as a computer monitor with a TV tuner) for use with my 360. Resolution matters with computers and things like computers a lot more than video taken of live actors.
When I have to buy a new TV, I’ll buy a high-definition one. But I’m not planning to buy one until I’m either ridiculously wealthy, or our current (standard-definition, standard-width) TV dies a natural death. The only gaming systems we have are a Wii and a PS2… I know that the Wii can use a wide-screen TV, but that’s the only advantage I see.
I just don’t see any point to replacing a perfectly good, if older, TV.
Makes sense, HG. Only get what you need. 🙂 Besides, I didn’t even own my own TV when I got one, I was using my roommmates’ one, and about to move anyway, it was the first TV I’d purchased in over a decade. A wii doesn’t really utilize HDTV, so it doesn’t make sense for it…
It’s boring and unnecessary for TV, though nearly impossible to get standard-def TVs now anyway now that standard-def needs an adaptor in the US to work, so you might as well get an HDTV, albeit not a huge one unless you’re a movie fanatic or something.
HDTV though is very useful for an Xbox 360 or PS3 gaming console, which is why I got the cheapest decent one at the time (something marketed as a computer monitor with a TV tuner) for use with my 360. Resolution matters with computers and things like computers a lot more than video taken of live actors.
When I have to buy a new TV, I’ll buy a high-definition one. But I’m not planning to buy one until I’m either ridiculously wealthy, or our current (standard-definition, standard-width) TV dies a natural death. The only gaming systems we have are a Wii and a PS2… I know that the Wii can use a wide-screen TV, but that’s the only advantage I see.
I just don’t see any point to replacing a perfectly good, if older, TV.
Makes sense, HG. Only get what you need. 🙂 Besides, I didn’t even own my own TV when I got one, I was using my roommmates’ one, and about to move anyway, it was the first TV I’d purchased in over a decade. A wii doesn’t really utilize HDTV, so it doesn’t make sense for it…