Well, as long as you plan to keep enjoying SD gaming, then SD displays will always be a necessity.
Tell you what though, next HDTV I'm buying will be a Sony Bravia with the Bravia 3 engine.
My Sony Blu-Ray player has smoother upscaling than my upscaling Toshiba dvd player. The toshiba is sharper but the Sony, even though it has a softer picture, it's also a smoother, less noisy picture too. You can especially tell with animation where character that are drawn with clean lines appear jagged with the toshiba and far smoother with the Sony.
I think this will translate into less jagged SDTV games played in a BE3 TV.
Miyamoto once said that he envisioned a display-less future for gaming. I hope I can see that realized before I pass away. I also hope that wasn't a brain fart from him.
When I get my HDTV (probably around the time Hell freezes over), I'm going to ditch SD consoles altogether. Not much reason for me to live in the past anymore.
Ravenprose said:When I get my HDTV (probably around the time Hell freezes over), I'm going to ditch SD consoles altogether. Not much reason for me to live in the past anymore.
I never imagined I would read that in one of your posts. So you either do not intend to get an HDTV ever, or will probably drop off gaming altogether.
SteelAttack said:I never imagined I would read that in one of your posts. So you either do not intend to get an HDTV ever, or will probably drop off gaming altogether.
The latter is more likely.
I have been thinking about this the last few years. I have one 17" SDTV in storage, but I'm not confident it will last that long (I guess there is always repair shops -- though I took one of my NTSC TV's in for repair here in PAL-land and they fucked it up worse than it was).
But anyway, back to my point, I'm equally concerned that over time they will stop putting RF/ Coax adapters on the back of these sets.
I'm sure there will be some super-specialist adapter that will be in production at least until I die, but it is something I think about as I look at all my old consoles that rely on RF-in.
I have three 21" SDTV sets. Over here they're still everywhere. Not the big ones, but the small 21" and less ones. The only one I use for gaming is the one in my bedroom, and that's because I have the PS2 there. Then again, I haven't turned the PS2 on in months, so I don't think I'll miss SDTVs altogether.
Would it not be possible for a TV to have lower resolutions as an option? Then again, that seems to have gone out somewhat with LCD monitors.
Bring back CRT! 
I've finally had it.
Up.
To.
Here.
Had it with HDTVs making all my standard definition consoles look like crap. Today, I finally sorted it out. I came, I saw, I scoured Ebay and I conquered.
But firstly, my father is getting a new HDTV so I can claim his old Mitsubishi. Sure it's not a great set, it has no vivid quality to the picture. The colours are dulled there isn't much sharpness. But at least, unlike an HDTV, it doesn't create false pixellation and jaggies where none existed before.
Screw
That
Shit.
And I also scored a 16" SDTV which I can use in another room, it should come this week. No more bullshit. No more remembering how good games used to look.
In fact there are a whole bunch of games I have bought post HDTV, that I have never even seen in SD. So I'm in for treat with a lot of my games suddenly looking a lot better. And the cost of scoring an old SDTV is less that the price of buying these HDTV external scalers, for instance the 16" I scored cost half the price of the 720p scaler I got.
Sure it's a pain is the ass having 5 tvs in one house, but I've had it.
This.
Is.
The.
Solution.
The only foolproof solution that actually works. I'm stepping back in time, to step into a future of better visuals.
How fucked up is that statement?