i guy i work with recently bought an HDTV. he watches HD quality programmes on it and also bought a denon DVD player that somehow upgrades the picture for HDTVs. He says it's like looking through a hole in the wall, it's so clear.
I know sky run their little HDTV ad things every now and then with swirling colours and lines... I think it looks pretty hypnotic on a normal TV... I'd love to see it in HDTV.
I downloded some HDTV clips for trial which you can play on the pc. I know that no GPU cards can currently display true HDTV, but even those clips looked awesome. even more so because I played a dvd on the pc, then immediately compared it to watching a couple of clips. when I went back to the DVD, i ended up switching it off because it looked so poor!!!
time to save the money for a new tele methinks!!!
if you're interested... files are fairly large, but hey....
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...tshowcase.aspx