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the HD picture is beautiful, if somewhat wasted on the norma viewing distance

My father's 45" Sharp Aquos (1080p native) LCD showed me that you don't necessarily want to get any closer. You can see all the damn MPEG blocking artifacts on that set, even at a reasonable distance, while my older, fuzzier CRT rear projector set tends to hide the blocking artifacts, which I had previously convinced myself was just film grain. A little distance can be a good thing.

(And, for anybody looking to purchase one of these high-resolution panels, it's important to look for how good their post-processing is at smoothing/filtering out these sorts of artifacts. I imagine that newer sets will be better at this than older ones because Moore's Law allows them a lot more image processing horsepower.)