Am I being a little girl regarding HD?

[topspeed]

Sooner or later, Slump, you're just going to have bite the bullet and do it.

I jumped in with a 720p a while back knowing full well that 1080p was right around the corner. What I also knew was that there wouldn't be any worthwhile 1080p content right around the corner...and there still isn't. In the meantime, I've thoroughly enjoyed HD content not only from DirecTV but more often then not, from OTA. All of the majors offer OTA HD, which means Lost, 24, Boston Legal, and most importantly, 'SC FOOTBALL in all of its 16:9 HD glory. I haven't regretted it for a second and often can't believe I waited for so long.

HD content is going to increase, just give it time. DirecTV launched a satellite early last year specifically to add 100+ HD channels to their existing portfolio. When will it happen? Who knows? I do know that considering most of what is on the tube is crap anyway, do I really care if that crap is in HD or SD? Probably not.

If I were buying today, I'd get a 1080p set just to future proof against the BluRay/HDDVD war. I'd get as many HDMI inputs as possible, although I doubt I'd care if it were 1.3 or not, as I'll be running my audio feed through an AVR/PrePro. I'd do this merely because HDMI is much more convenient than three massive component cables. If you can detect a visible difference between HD content via HDMI vs. Component, your eyes are far better than most.

As for which technology, it really comes down to what compromises are you will to make? Plasma has awesome colors and blacks, but won't go to 1080p and consumes energy faster than Kobyashi does hot dogs. LCD's are bright and you can hang <42" on the wall, but they suffer from SDE and mediocre blacks. DLP's, LCoS, etc. will all have problems. What is important to you?

Personally, as far as rear projection sets go, my list would start and stop at either Sony's 1080p SXRD set or JVC's 1080p HDiLA, both LCoS based sets. TPV considers the JVC as Best on the Planet and I don't disagree. LCoS simply offers the fewest compromises with excellent off-axis viewing, IMO. That said, I'd wait until either of those sets adopts a LED based projection system as the price you pay for the unrivaled brightness of LCoS is bulb life measured in months, not years. Mine went Casper in 8 months. AVMaster's did the same. It's not a big deal as I have a 5 year warranty on the bulb and changing it requres all of 5 minutes. You should be aware of the deficiency however.

Get off the sidelines and get into the game! You have no idea what you are missing until you have it...and then you'll wonder why you waited so long (just like I did).