Originally Posted by BarracksSi

I got a high-def TV a little over a week ago. It's actually the first TV I've ever bought for myself, too, after one hand-me-down, a few years of using roommates' TVs, and a birthday gift back when I entered college. Digital tuner, yadda yadda etc.

I plugged the coax cable from the wall into the TV and had it auto-program whatever channels it could find. Imagine my surprise when, beyond the 70-odd standard cable channels, it found another couple hundred digital channels.

Now, not all of them are actual HD -- just the big networks, PBS, Versus, and maybe a couple others. There are also a buttload of music channels. And, I can't find any TV listings that have the same channel list and numbers (none list NBC at 117.777, as an example), so I went through the new channels and wrote down a list of what they are and which are HD.

But I'll be damned if I'm going to willingly buy a cable upgrade package that, fundamentally, doesn't give me content that's any more desirable apart from a prettier picture that I can already see.

I have to admit, though -- HDTV (and Blu-Ray, and high-def gaming) is at least as awesome of an upgrade as 5-channel+ surround sound.