This guide notes that HDTVs have much higher resolution, which allows you to get a good, immersive experience at a much closer viewing range than on SDTVs. In other words, you can probably get a bigger HDTV in your room than you’d want an SDTV. This is true. However, Michelle and I learned the hard way when we moved to Seattle that this little rule of thumb totally ignores one key point: most of us HDTV owners still watch a lot of standard-definition TV, too. And standard definition TV, quite frankly, looks like complete hell on a nice, high-res HDTV. The only way to make that experience more tolerable is to back away from the TV. We rearranged our living room to sit farther away and found that our SD channels magically didn’t look like shit anymore.
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