any good at having 1080P on a 32"?

I've just bought a Samsung LE32R86 which does not support full HD, i was told that as long is i aint going above 42" it aint worth it (ofcourse this was the salesman telling me..)

But now my older brother says that it actually does matter because the picture will be much better, smoother and what not.

My question is: was my brother right, and was i just victim of a salesman trying wanting sell me this tv as he realized i couldn't afford anything super expensive?

Or was the salesman actually right about it's fine with just having 720P for an 32" and 1080P for an 42" and my brother therefor wrong.

I couldn't afford anything more expensive then this, and from what i've read and from my personal experience is a great tv however does having Full HD on a 32" any advantage a regular/no tv expert would be able to see?

The tv is mostly used for my xbox 360 (without HDMI, but using the VGA cable)

It is also used for wathing tv and a normal DVD every once in a while.

I've gotten a laptop which i dont play computer games on so i dont want to use it as a monitor for my computer ;)

Considering that most Xbox 360s can't do 1080p (except for Elite, maybe? ... I don't have an Xbox) I don't think it's a big deal. HD TV programs usually broadcast in 720p anyway. At that size of TV, you'd have to be pretty anal to see any difference at all between 720p and 1080p. I have a PS3 and a 52" 1080p HDTV hooked up via HDMI and still have a hard time seeing a drastic improvement of Blu-Ray over HD programming on TV.mrimbaugh4

The only things doing native 1080P right now are maybe a dozen games out of the hundreds out there, HD-DVD/BD movies, and PC's in general. Most console games run at 720P at best, sometimes lower like 640P or 600P upscaled. When it's that small of a screen, you'd have to be sitting pretty close to be able to really notice/care about the difference though. I don't think it's really worth it unless you want to use it as a PC monitor.Makari

i thought the only console game that ran in 720p was oblivion for ps3, which games actually run in 1080??

Take a PS3 to best buy and put in a BR, ask the salesman to hook it up to a 1080p 50' then a 720p 50' and you will see that you really have to look to see the difference. Sure I would rather have a 1080p, but at the prices, and lack of things actually supporting 1080p there is nothing wrong with still going 720p.skingus

well of course it will with blu-ray since it's 1080 native. if you have a 720 tv then it has to downscale the image.