[Vampyr]

So the subtitle for this forum is "life beyond the range of your controller". This is beyond the range of my controller, but only by a couple of feet.

I bought a new LCD HD TV yesterday! It's a Samsung LN37A450, at 720p. I know what some of you are thinking "Wut, all that money for a TV, and you didn't go 1080?!"

The reasoning for this is that at 50" and below, you can't even tell a difference unless you're a few feet away, and the one I bought is 37".

I havn't really gotten to test it on an HD source yet (I'm upgrading to HD cable soon), but I have a few questions for people here who may already have one.

Regular cable looks pretty bad. I expected this; HD shows you how things really are, for better or for worse, so something filmed 20 years ago is going to really show the poor quality of the film used to film it. I don't really mind this so much, but there still seems to be a little too much noise on the screen. Does anyone know any settings that can be adjusted to make it more suitable for regular TV viewing?

Another question I have has to do with cables. I understand that HDMI cables are the end-all-be-all to HD viewing, and I'm going to get one when I upgrade to HD cable. Does anyone know if that kind of cable will reduce the noise from regular non-HD channels as well?

Another gripe I have is that Gamecube and PS2 games look pretty crappy. I've been reading about it, and it seems that using a component cable with progressive scan is ideal. Anyone have any experiance with using their GCN/PS2 on an HDLCD TV?