stupid question but my dad keeps asking me so I need help

[phatrat1982]

Ok he is not real old only barely 53 but he is old fashion type guy. He loves his HDTV's and like the picture quality but he swears VHS still looks good enough for him. My question is kinda simple. Well maybe not so simple people just say no and move on but anyways. Keep in mind HE thinks VHS still looks good, so my question is, if we hooked up his VCR to his HDTV, it's a 42" set, would the picture be as good as it is on his CRT SDTV? Or would it look so much worse he would not like it? Most of his tapes are all Full Screen anyways and the ones he has are mostly movies he does not think are worth upgrading to DVD and he has yet to buy a single Blu Ray for himself, mostly lack of movies that interest him.


So um I want to know is there a way to make the VHS look at least as 'good' as it foes on the normal tv or will the HDTV upscale it or do something to it to make it look worse? Will it make it look better? He has a really high quality VCR, it was an $800 VCR in the 90's so it's top of the line in quality and puts out an impressive picture for VHS, looks like garbage to me but he says it's no different than DVD to him. He currently has it in the spare bedroom hooked up to an old tv but wants it in the living room so he can enjoy his old movies on his TV, but he wants to know if it will look really bad before he does it. Truthfully he is scared since it is old school stuff it might somehow hurt his TV, anyways he won't hook it up until someone can assure him it will not hurt his TV and it will not look worse than what he is used to.

I can not test out TV on SD OTA channels because where we live we are too far away, but our old tv we just replaced even the SD channels looked watchable on the TV but this is a larger set and I don't know if that makes a big difference or not. it's a 1080p set will that make it better or worse? I did notice that on Directv SD channels look better now on the new tv than they did on the old one but DVD's look worse.