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You are a bold and courageous person, afraid of nothing. High on a hill top near your home, there stands a dilapidated old mansion. Some say the place is haunted, but you don't believe in such myths. One dark and stormy night, a light appears in the topmost window in the tower of the old house. You decide to investigate... and you never return... -
Agree 100%. I have a 1080p television too, and upconverted standard DVDs can look very good (depending on the transfer, etc) and sometimes almost hi def like, but a properly done BD or HD DVD looks much better. I've done A/B comparisions going back and forth for the same film, and honestly, after watching a segment of a film in 1080p on BD or HD DVD, watching the same segment in 480i/p on standard DVD can look almost like VHS in comparison. Some scenes can look literally three dimensional in 1080p.
True, it's the newer movies that really benefit from the format, but I've heard some older films like THE SEARCHERS and 2001 look equally stunning in hidef (the latter because it was shot in 70mm, so the transfer has much more detail that BD or HD DVD can display).Still, there is an expense issue. I wouldn't buy old westerns or many older movies if they were released in an HC format at this point, but modern fx movies are just SO COOL on these new formats.
Anyway, I fully understand that to many people, DVD is good enough, and there is nothing wrong with that. I guess things like that are more important to movie nuts or home theatre tech heads. Everyone has priorities on what they want to spend their spare cash on (like I have to tell anyone reading this forum that
). I like spending money on the latest electronics for my home theatre (and the movies to play on them), but I drive a completely plain, cheaper, ordinary car with no bells and whistles. It's all what's important to you. 
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