I haven't seen or actively looked for SD televisions with those features, but I can attest to the fact that downconverted HD looks wonderful on an SD set. Last week I recorded both the cropped, SD version of the Lost recap ep as well as the HD feed and my parents I all agreed that it was a stunning difference for us.
It makes you wonder how much trouble networks would have to go through to broadcast a better feed that wasnt HD, but was at least optimized for viewing on SD sets. I'm sure part of it is banwidth, but that a larger reason would be the general decrease in interest for HD networks if average customers didnt see a big enough difference in image quality to get an HDTV.
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James @ May 1st 2006 10:24PM
I haven't seen or actively looked for SD televisions with those features, but I can attest to the fact that downconverted HD looks wonderful on an SD set. Last week I recorded both the cropped, SD version of the Lost recap ep as well as the HD feed and my parents I all agreed that it was a stunning difference for us.
It makes you wonder how much trouble networks would have to go through to broadcast a better feed that wasnt HD, but was at least optimized for viewing on SD sets. I'm sure part of it is banwidth, but that a larger reason would be the general decrease in interest for HD networks if average customers didnt see a big enough difference in image quality to get an HDTV.