Shimmyhill said:
I now know 2 Lcd buyers who have gone to SD plasmas and both have 360's aswell as Sky etc.
Yep, add me to that list. I think SD plasma is the best all-round buy at the moment. Tried HD LCD but hated the performance on SD material, even DVDs. Pixelation, smearing, unnatural colours.
SD plasma looks great through an SD plasma screen, and I also agree that feeding it a 720P signal and letting the TV scale it gives the best results - its like free AA.
I'm very much on the fence when it comes to HD. I dont currently have a sky sub - I just pay a tenner a month for the plus facility, so I'd have to pay an extra 40 a month, and the material is very limited to start with. Sky sports doesnt really interest me that much (I prefer watching football at a stadium) and the movies have all been out on DVD/newsgroups well before they hit Sky. I know you can download ts streams etc, but I just cant be bothered - even with 8MB broadband the wait, coupled with the storage requirements is too long lol! When HD is broadasts on every channel, including freeview then I'll upgrade, but I reckon thats a couple of years away at least, and until then SD material will look better on an SD panel than a HD panel.
As I posted yesterday I feel a bit short changed by the broadcasters as it is. Planet earth showed how good an SD signal via satellite can be, and its 10x better than the standard material.