Alright, now this thread may just show off my ignorance, but I just wanted to comment on what I noticed this weekend. First off, when I got my 360 last year, I had a 27", flat screen SDTV. Yeah, it was a really nice TV I had bought about 6 months prior to replace my old 23" tube TV. I hooked up my 360 using composite cables and everything looked nice. A month or two went by and I read about how everyone said HD makes the games look amazing, how great everything looks so I said 'Well, then I gotta have it!' I read up online about all of the different things and what they meant concerning 720p, 1080i and such, and I decided that I'd look for a cheap one. I didn't need a 56" flat panel, as it was just for my bedroom, so I checked out Best Buy and was almost set to buy a 30" Flat Screen HDTV for about $500, which seemed to be a good deal. I held off, and later that day we went to Wal-Mart, where, there on the shelf sat a floor model Sanyo 28" Flat/Widescreen HDTV with a built-in HD tuner marked down for about $330 bucks. I was luck 'Friggin Sweet!!!' My mom needed a TV, which was really why we went to Wal-Mart, so I struck a deal with her to buy my 27" TV for $100 bucks. I didn't care that the HDTV was floor model, because I would have needed to take it out of the box for it to fit in my car anyways, plus since it was out of the box I was able to make sure that there were no marks or damage and such. When I went to cash out, the cashier was like "I'll give it to you for an even $300" so my HDTV cost me $315 including tax. Mind you it was still a CRT, so it was heavy as fuck to carry upstairs, but we got it home, I hooked it up and brought my old TV Downstairs for my mom. I connected my 360 to it and, all excited proceeded to play in HD. Now, to me there really wasn't much of a difference, though to be fair the only game I played on the old TV and on the new TV was Oblivion, every other game I played only in HD. But anyways, it was a great deal for a really nice HDTV and I was happy. Believe me, I'm going somewhere with this story...maybe...
Anyways, fast forward to last weekend. I was checking out what was On-Demand, and checked out the G4 section where there was a review of GoW. I decided to check it out and see what X-Play had to say, but I was horrified! They gave the game a great review, talked about how much fun it was and all that, and the whole time they were showing the game on screen...in Standard Definition and it looked absolutley HORRIBLE!!! I just couldn't believe how big of a difference it really made. Now, I've seen a 360 on a 32' flat panel too and that looks absolutley gorgeous, but since I've only seen it once I can't compare it to mine. Anyways, I just wanted to say that HD really does make a big difference, though I'm pretty sure almost everyone here already has one anyways.
Anyways, fast forward to last weekend. I was checking out what was On-Demand, and checked out the G4 section where there was a review of GoW. I decided to check it out and see what X-Play had to say, but I was horrified! They gave the game a great review, talked about how much fun it was and all that, and the whole time they were showing the game on screen...in Standard Definition and it looked absolutley HORRIBLE!!! I just couldn't believe how big of a difference it really made. Now, I've seen a 360 on a 32' flat panel too and that looks absolutley gorgeous, but since I've only seen it once I can't compare it to mine. Anyways, I just wanted to say that HD really does make a big difference, though I'm pretty sure almost everyone here already has one anyways.
