[Scotty]

This is the ILO LCD TV I just bought and the picture is fabulous. DirecTV only has a few HD channels right now and it's hard to tell the difference between the regular and HD broadcast. Even with HDMI cable. I took this picture about five minutes ago with my Sony Cyber Shot with 7.2 Megapixels. The actual TV is even clearer than it appears in the picture. I'm totally satisfied with what I got ~ especially for less than a thousand dollars (which included the new HD satellite receiver.

[marajade]

" ... it's hard to tell the difference between the regular and HD broadcast."

If you are having a difficult time telling the difference between standard definition and high definition in picture quality then there is something wrong with your setup.

[Doohickey]

If you can't see much difference between ESPN (Ch. 206) and ESPN HD (Ch. 73), take your TV back to the store. Your image looks like a standard picture stretched to fit the screen.

[BurbankKarl]

There was an article in the Wall Street Journal a few weeks ago about DirecTV, HDTV, and the NFL....from what I gathered, you will be waiting a very long time for all the NFL games to be in HDTV, and even the ones that are stretch the DirecTV signal bandwidth as it is (apparently they turn off some other channels to make it work) DirecTv is launching two more satellites with 150 HDTV channel capacity in 2007.