thats becasue the sourse wasn't HD. --------------- i have a samsung 32" HDTV for my xbox 360, as soon as i switched from my old set i could instantly tell the difference, no jaggys, crystal clear picture, it's so easy on the eyes yet it looks amazing. same with DVDs too, if you have a HDMI output dvd player, picture looks awesome. Its deffinatly worth the upgrade, if it wasn't then people would just be sticking with standard pictures. the only way i can descibe it is if you switch your monitor to 800x600 with 16bit colour, then step it up to say, 1280x1024 with high 32 bit colour. as for price, yeh, they are more expensive than the equivilant size standard tvs, but its deffinatly worth the extra moolah. My tv was £822 from waratah, i could easily have got 2 top of the range sony CRTs for that money but i recon it was worth every penny. If i'm going to sit and watch TV, i might as-well do it properly, and just looking at the thing makes me feel happy. However, imo you might as-well wait for the time being until SKY HD comes out, then give it a couple of months for the prices to drop, and the hiccups to be ironed out, then go shopping. I only bought my TV in January becasue i'm an inpatient b*****d and i wanted to play my xbox to the best of it's abilities before i got bored of it. Oh, and mine also has a built in digital reciever and the picture is sweet. heres a picture i took of project gotham, straight off the screen and only photoshopped the border in: