HDTV : To buy or not to buy?

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I don't see the point, particularly for Brits. Sky have the most HD content, as Amon says, but have you seen how much bandwidth some of these satellite channels use? Bugger all, that's how much. There's a website somewhere which shows it, but I forget the URL at the moment. I don't see the point ( for me personally, anyway ) in pissing away a grand for a new TV and a couple hundred more for the HD box, and ( presumably ) an increased subscription every month for the same horrible quality we get on many of the channels anyway. I'm sure Sky One HD and the movie channels are better, but as soon as they start adding new channels, the quality is gonna be horrible anyway.

So yeah, I'm waiting. Having said that, they have some nice 1366x768 TV's now from companies like Daewoo in 32" for about £400 which includes PC inputs, so I could see myself buying one of those as a fancy PC monitor and using it for TV as well, but I can't see me getting the Sky HD Box for a while yet, and certainly not one of the huge screens. Too much investment to want to replace it as soon as some proper HD ( 1080P ) screens come around.