Ya know...Is HD really worth it?

I'm only 16 years old, and I just had wrist surgery about 3-4 weeks ago. My job won't let me work again until my doctor clears me, and that may take a few months. I'm also going to be living with my parents for another year and a half, then finally I'm off to college. Which then I'll get a new hi tech TV. So I'm just going sometihng to last a year.

My 13 yr old Sony is dying. It takes 16 minutes to start up ( I timed it ) and picture is basically crap.

I was just wondering if a 23-27 inch really sweet SDTV would be a good choice? I have heard that HDTV is really only noticeable when it's a large set. 

I would save almost 300-400 dollars. And as you know I can't make money, and only have like 250-300 in the bank right now.

Also would a better choice be an EDTV? And would someone explain to me what that is? lol.

Thanks anyone for the help.

In this era when buying a tv, its either Hd or no tv. Because if you get a sd tv now, later on your gonna want to buy an hdtv. Edtv is basically a flat panel sdtv. Its just a stupid gimmick to trick lest informed people looking for a flatpanel hdtv into buying a piece of sh*t edtv because its cheaper.

For consoles, unless your rich, HD isn't worth the money, if your on a tight budget, just dont bother, its not worth it.

For PC's however, it's arguably more worth it, but thats not what your enquiring about.

I have a little Samsung LCDTV/Monitor Syncmaster 710MP that i received as a present a while back, now, until i got my Xbox 360, i had no idea it was technicly HD, well, it's not true HD as it's not widescreen, but it's higher res than a regular TV due to being a PC monitor at the same time.

This explained why my normal games looked so bad, being stretched to the monitor wasnt good for image quality (on a lot of PS2 games i cant even read the text, and dont even ask about PS1, SNES/NES games) Same for my 360.

But, once i got VGA cables, it smoothed it out so much and looks very crisp and nice running at 1024x768, however, i don't really notice any difference while playing it on my normal TV downstairs except screen tearing on Dead Rising, their is less of it on lower resolution SDTV.

My advice, buy whatever you can afford, but unless you have the money to throw around, buy a normal tv, or something that will fulfill more than the use of just being HD for your xbox (Like mine for example which was my PC monitor for 2 years, even though i no longer have a PC, just a laptop) as buying an HDTV just for that purpose, considering my own personal experience, would seem to me like a waste of money.

Feel free to disregard, like i said, just my personal opinion/experience.
diablobasher

[QUOTE="diablobasher"]For consoles, unless your rich, HD isn't worth the money, if your on a tight budget, just dont bother, its not worth it.

For PC's however, it's arguably more worth it, but thats not what your enquiring about.

I have a little Samsung LCDTV/Monitor Syncmaster 710MP that i received as a present a while back, now, until i got my Xbox 360, i had no idea it was technicly HD, well, it's not true HD as it's not widescreen, but it's higher res than a regular TV due to being a PC monitor at the same time.

This explained why my normal games looked so bad, being stretched to the monitor wasnt good for image quality (on a lot of PS2 games i cant even read the text, and dont even ask about PS1, SNES/NES games) Same for my 360.

But, once i got VGA cables, it smoothed it out so much and looks very crisp and nice running at 1024x768, however, i don't really notice any difference while playing it on my normal TV downstairs except screen tearing on Dead Rising, their is less of it on lower resolution SDTV.

My advice, buy whatever you can afford, but unless you have the money to throw around, buy a normal tv, or something that will fulfill more than the use of just being HD for your xbox (Like mine for example which was my PC monitor for 2 years, even though i no longer have a PC, just a laptop) as buying an HDTV just for that purpose, considering my own personal experience, would seem to me like a waste of money.

Feel free to disregard, like i said, just my personal opinion/experience.
deathmirage87

[QUOTE="deathmirage87"][QUOTE="diablobasher"]For consoles, unless your rich, HD isn't worth the money, if your on a tight budget, just dont bother, its not worth it.

For PC's however, it's arguably more worth it, but thats not what your enquiring about.

I have a little Samsung LCDTV/Monitor Syncmaster 710MP that i received as a present a while back, now, until i got my Xbox 360, i had no idea it was technicly HD, well, it's not true HD as it's not widescreen, but it's higher res than a regular TV due to being a PC monitor at the same time.

This explained why my normal games looked so bad, being stretched to the monitor wasnt good for image quality (on a lot of PS2 games i cant even read the text, and dont even ask about PS1, SNES/NES games) Same for my 360.

But, once i got VGA cables, it smoothed it out so much and looks very crisp and nice running at 1024x768, however, i don't really notice any difference while playing it on my normal TV downstairs except screen tearing on Dead Rising, their is less of it on lower resolution SDTV.

My advice, buy whatever you can afford, but unless you have the money to throw around, buy a normal tv, or something that will fulfill more than the use of just being HD for your xbox (Like mine for example which was my PC monitor for 2 years, even though i no longer have a PC, just a laptop) as buying an HDTV just for that purpose, considering my own personal experience, would seem to me like a waste of money.

Feel free to disregard, like i said, just my personal opinion/experience.
diablobasher