Please help

[spooky]

I have been doing alot of searching and reading about hdtv and am more confused now than before. I looked at alot of tvs and finally settled on the pioneer 53 hdtv wide screen. I then talked to salesman about what improvement would be had if i bought a $700 hdtv to go with it. He said a major improvent would be seen, although nothing is being broadcast over dss that is hdtv yet.
So i decided to ask one more guy that acutally worked in the dept that sold the hdtv recievers. Its a toshiba by the way. He said that no improvemt would be seen now untill dtv starts broadcasting in hdtv. So now im really confused.
Also i read reviews on the digital pioneer i bought and it said that unless you use a hgtv reciever, dss looks crappy.
Sorry about the long post , but im really confused. Any help on these matters would be greatly appreicated.
thanks

[DiscoMan38]

some hdtv ird's can up scan regluar NTSC to 480i and 1080i and decode OTA(over the air) digital boradcast ..
i have the Sony SAT-HD100 reciver and pioneer PRO710 mon.up scaning to 480i is better then the NTSC standerd(in 16x9 format)1080i is way better but its not all in 16x9(wide screen)but the hi-def stuff is just badass(HBO on 509 and some ppv's on 199)

[spooky]

How does your tv look , disco. That pioneer you have is top of the line. And BB has that toshiba hgtv receiver, can you emulate with it and will it get 900's?
thanks

[DiscoMan38]

tv in HD is life like..
yes the emu. works with sony sat-hd100 (with a HUzkt cam)
no 900's locals in the 1-99 range
i useing sle3.1