"I cant see the movie I want because Netflix removed it"
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I usually watch on a 30 inch monitor. The difference is pretty significant IMHO. If I were to spend time and storage space on something it would have to be at least 1080p.
That said, I can't really be arsed to torrent high quality rips anymore, so I just watch 720p or 1080 with shitty compression on "totally legit" streaming sites.
On the other hand, I archive video games that I've played and they tend to make movies look tiny im comparison. Although I'm starting to question that too. Am I really ever going to replay them? Probably going to weed out everything but the most memorable ones.
I'm from that era, too. Computer CRTs were already pretty high res. The limiting factor was mostly the terrible TV signal and crappy DVD rips in Divx compression.
Like old games it's nostalgia that's best left unrevisited because it doesn't stand the test of time IMHO. These days even uncompressed DVDs look kinda sad and I wonder if I should upgrade the few DVDs I have to Blurays or high quality rips, assuming they've remastered that stuff in a higher resolution.
I guess YMMV. I still watch DVDs and they look fine on my 110" 1080p projection setup.
Do HD sources look better? Yes. Is it a distraction when things are 480p? No.