Regular TV and PS3

I have an HDTV but cant play on it most of the time (because my fat ass mother and father hog it 24/7). Will it still look decent on a normal TV? I understand it wont be HD quality but will the games be playable (no blurry text, able to discern one object from another, other general graphical inconviences)?

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Yeah, sorry to tell you this, but I play on an SDTV, and the graphics are definitely better than last gen (PS2, Xbox, Gamecube), but I wasn't as impressed as I thought I would be either. Some games have obnoxiously small text which is a by-product of the low resolution. I have the disc version of Warhawk ... I literally couldn't read half of the words on the menu, regardless of how close I got to the TV. When I took it over to my friend's house with an HDTV, I could read everything, no problem, even though we were sitting about 20ft away (it was a 60" TV, I think). In fact, I laughed at what the menu actually said compared to what I thought it said on my crappy SDTV; for example, what I though was "color" actually said "hue" ... it was that bad.

However, the text in all the other games I have is legible on my SDTV, and the actual in game graphics aren't much worse than HDTV graphics. I've never had problems differentiating between objects, but things like blurriness depend on the game and your specific TV. HDTVs definitely make the graphics look better, but they also show smaller imperfections. One of the only major problems I have with my TV compared to a good HDTV (other than the occasional game w/ small unreadable text) is that darker games are nearly unplayable because of the low contrast ratio on my TV ... but I usually just turn up the brightness all the way to make the game playable - I don't mind the fact that the colors don't look as good.

Anyway, try component cables or HDMI cables, (HDMI is better than component), if your TV has the inputs for them. In order to change the resolution, you have to keep both sets of cables plugged in to your PS3 and TV at the same time, then go to the settings and change the resolution, then take out the composite (red/yellow/white cables that came with the PS3), and you should be good to go. I'm not sure why you have to do it that way... in fact, I haven't done this myself, but I have read in another thread that you have to do it this way for some strange reason.

Maybe some blurry text. But i recommend u move that ps3 to your room and get a 32in vizio for like 300 dollars great hdtv, (read my sig for an easy way to earn money!)

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$300, get me a link ... 32" LCD HDTVis $650-$700 on Vizio.com

I got quite a lot of money for christmas (5k), so I might go out to Best Buy or Circuit City and buy a cheap HDTV. Since I'm kind of a novice at the whole HDTV thing, anybody have any links or suggestions on a good HDTV? I don't really buy things off the internet so any links to TVs I can buy in-store would be great.

Thanks in advance!