Elle wrote:

Yesterday at Best Buy a clerk there said buying any of the
flat screen TVs meant I would have HDTV. Without cable or
satellite with HD, the display would have black vertical
bars covering something like three inches on both sides. If
I wanted to continue using an ordinary antenna, I'd have to
go to a conventional TV with a 4:3 aspect ratio.

Can someone please confirm or deny what the clerk said and
maybe elaborate? Meanwhile I am googling on the subject.


I think it depends on the screen size. I was in Best Buy last night. In
the 19-20" screen size, you can still find an LCD SDTV in the 4:3
aspect ratio. They had one on sale for something like $220. We're
looking for something to put on the wall of a very small bedroom in our
cabin - complicating factor is that we want it with built-in DVD
player, those things are still kind of rare and expensive.

Jerry