Get an HDTV ready system. All HDTV capable sets are progressive scan, meaning that the entire screen is displayed at one time.

Today's analog signals are made up of two interlaced fields. Interlacing was necessary in the 1950s to make it possible for the television sets of the day to refresh the screen 30 times per second without there being a noticeable strobing or flicker on the monitors. Breaking the image into an odd and even field, drawing one field first, then drawing the other, was the solution to this strobing. Because of backward compatibility, broadcast images are to this day still limited by these interlaced signals.

All HDTVs use "Line Doubling" dechnology. Line Doubling is a term that describes a television image that has had each field converted to a complete frame. That is, the television is showing you 60 frames per second instead of 30 frames. This increase in picture information causes the image to look more film-like, with richer colors, lower video "noise" and less graininess.

Analog televisions are designed to show only 30 frames/second, so line-doubling an image on a standard television is impossible. The television cannot display the image at this increased speed.

The improvement in picture quality is tremendous. Get the good TV.