I think that I have become a bit of a HD “snob” (joking).
SD pictures look okay on my television, but I enjoy marvelling at the detail of a decent HD transmission. A similar thing happened when I upgraded my hi-fi over time and I ended up only istening to stuff that was produced well.
It’s just one of my quirks I guess.
If you watch everything through SKY then SD will look crap, do you really think they don’t dumb down the picture so they can charge more for HD?
I mean look at old programs shown in HD, why would say ‘dads army’ look any better in HD? but on SKY it does.
I have a Virgin HD bow & they upscale everything, I can hardly tell the difference when switching from say BBC1 to BBC HD.
HTH.