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BR, you specifically mentioned Panny in your comments. I have had two Sony CRT's that I had owned for a number of years. Both the 768p and now the 1080p Panny (I have only had it on now for about 5 hours) are better than both of the Sony's. This has been in the same 7 year old condo with high quality cable feed. I have read the same comment in reviews of quality plasma's. These comments are directed mainly to quality brand plasma's and is another reason not to buy el cheapo sets which specifically usually have very disappointing PQ on SDTV. I suspect perhaps you have not seen a quality plasma hooked up properly to a incoming quality SDTV signal. I don't trust any PQ I see in any store unless I know for sure that they have an excellent TV signal. This is very seldom the case in my experience. In my area there is a Video Only that has a TV signal lead from a rooftop antenna that produces some excellent program quality. The actual PQ at our local Costco which is an in house digital feed is rather unimpressive. I bought these sets specifically based on pro reviews and owner reviews on the comparable Panny retail models. I have watched some SDTV broadcasts from about 10-15 feet in our room that sometimes I would swear are HDTV, the signal and PQ is that good. I am not exagerating here. I emphasize this here because we still have lots of SDTV to go for some years. This is a big selling point to me for these Panny plasma's.

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NO, its not.
How long have you had HDTV?
Ihave had it when the only thing you could watch on it was 480p DVD.
And trust me, SD performance is of no consequence whatsoever.
Because, next to HD, SD is gonna look like crap no matter what
you do to it.
TV has, for the most part, been filmed in HD since forever.
Thats because film was what was used, which is naturally HD.
so IF a channel is "hd" you will get a better pic, even with 480p
material than you would with 480i.
Most stations now are HD,I disagree with your notion that there is a lot of SD material out there, because SD material isnt worth watching
after you have watched hd for any lenght of time.
I tried to watch Back to the future III in SD the other day, couldnt do it,
it looked like crap, even with my sets very good upconversion.
The emphasis should be getting all channels converted over to HD,
sdtv is dead.
I remember when we went over to a neighbors and I got to watch a color TV set for the first good lenght of time, it was heaven.
Going back to our B&W set was really bad.
No one talked about how good a color set handled B&W, no need because they knew that B&W was crap(except for a few classics)
I hear this on discussions of Blu ray, how well do they upconvert?
How good does a DVD look on one?
WHO CARES? The best DVD or SDTV looks like crap, pale,
washed out uninteresting crap.
Is your favorite station still in SD?
Dont worry, market forces will soon take care of that.

Back on topic, do you think you could live with a 32" set for 389$
if it had the name Emerson on the front?