1 In 5 Viewers See No Difference Between HD & SD TV

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I don't think moron is too strong a word. When you have an HDTV and an HD Cable Box and you still watch the standard def channel that is also broadcasting in HD you are a moron. When you have an HD cable box and continue to still watch TV with the RF/Coax cable even though you have component cable connected you are a moron. We all do moronic things in our lives and those sure are some of them. The other one is not having a free HD cable box when you have an HDTV. That makes me scratch my head and wonder what might be in the drinking water. I sit silently thinking but that is a SD box and that is an HDTV. OMG.....

No, its not too strong a word at all.
If these folks can see no diff between HD and SD, then they ought to save a ton of money
by not buying HD. Thats possible, you know.
SOME ARE CONTANKEROUS. They absolutely hate having "HD" "shoved"
down their throats, don't like the expense.
SOME DON'T CARE. I have seen so many purple and green people at various houses
that I have stopped preaching. If that doesn't bother them...
So the more things change the more they stay the same."NOBODY ever went broke
underestimating the intelligence of the American public, or any public, for that matter.
But tons have gone broke trying to sell quality.

[Smokey]

I have seen so many purple and green people at various houses that I have stopped preaching.

This why some of the blame have to fall on HDTV manufactures also. I mean just look at variety of default picture settings on your TV. If different factory settings don't blind you first, as you said you will go from purple to green poeple or something in between.

Couple that with the fact that not all HDTVs are created equal. I just received March issue of ConsumerReports and cheap HD picture's quality brands like Magnovox, Sylvania, Philips, Westinghouse were rated much inferior to brands like Sony or Samsung.