Am I being a little girl regarding HD?

[PeruvianSkies]

There is absolutely nothing wrong with wanting to protect your purchases, especially if you are ready to drop some serious cash like you are. So to answer your first question...no you are not being a little girl.

My best advice since you are up against a wall at this point would be to wait until the water breaks a bit. I would wait (and I am waiting) to see what develops early in 2007, which is right around the corner. I think that by then you will have an even better idea as far as the future for the HD formats and HD hardware. You are right now on the brink of something big and making a decision now would probably not be the wisest thing, just yet. It's great that you are really thinking through alot of these decisions and educating yourself on the market. I can tell you one thing for sure though...watching movies in HD through Comcast or anything that they broadcast in HD is really making it hard to watch movies on regular DVD because they don't look nearly as good, which is a shame when you have 1200 DVD's like I do. I am hardly going to upgrade all of my movies to HD formats because it would take another 6 years or so to get to that point and not to mention about another $15K-$20K. Yikes.

So I am waiting to see what happens....you are welcome to join me in the observatory!

[markw]

Granted, I hope to avail myself of OTA programming as much as possible but I do realize that a lot of my TV watching will be in 4:3.

My main goal in getting a 16:9 set is to hopefully be able to watch wide screen novies with a better presentation than I currently get on my 32: Proscan CRT dinosaur. It's great for 4:3 stuff, and I'm sure I'll keep it in the main room for along, long time, but I'm sure I can do better with the wid screen movies.

Now, I'm keeping my eyes open for the Athena Micra 6 systems to go on sale again. A few months ago they were < $250 and now they're up to over $400? What gives?

P.S,.. now I'm looking at a Toshiba 32HC66. Decisions, decisions...

Hang in there, Slump, and keep me posted.

[topspeed]

My main goal in getting a 16:9 set is to hopefully be able to watch wide screen novies with a better presentation than I currently get on my 32: Proscan CRT dinosaur. It's great for 4:3 stuff, and I'm sure I'll keep it in the main room for along, long time, but I'm sure I can do better with the wid screen movies.

You should get a projector, Mark. If you main goal is better movie presentation and you can control ambient light, I see no reason why you shouldn't avail yourself of the dropping prices on projectors. They are very cost effective provided you do it right.