Buying a TV takes some education, especially with so many different types, models, and brand names as we have out now. Various sizes, shapes, and features can cause you to cringe and wish you'd never left the house. But in reality, it's just a matter of understanding the basics that you need, the rest is purely personal choice.
It helps if you have an idea about if you need S-video inputs or not. Also if you may want or need RCA jacks in front. What about a digital comb filter? And will any of these things influence the quality of my viewing a movie or sports event? Questions like this will indeed pop up when you start shopping for your TV. So it's best to be prepared with some knowledge about such things.
Do you buy into the notion that 'bigger is better' when owning a TV? It depends on your situation and of course, the TV. I've seen smaller TVs that make you squint to see them, while huge TVs made everything a blur unless you sat a mile away. You need to keep in mind where you'll place your TV and what size TV that space calls for.
TV sizes are obtained by measuring diagonally across the screen. Remember that a flat-panel TV is not going to take up as much space as a regular TV. You can even hang a flat-panel on the wall and not even consider your furniture layout except for looks.
With a screen that's over 40 inches, it's worth looking into a rear-projection CRT. This takes the concept of a projector and adds it to a screen for a one-two punch of a picture. The image gets projected onto the screen, which is then viewed from in front by you.
The CRT type TV utilizes three cathode ray tubes for combining it's main hues of red, green, and blue. These types of TVs have been the mainstay of home theaters for many years. They present you with a better investment per dollar, and they always have a great picture with good black level quality.
If there are any drawbacks to the rear-projector CRTs, it's that they're heavy and deep in the back. They also don't perform well under bright lighting. They're hard in the maintenance department and their viewing angle can be quite narrow. But the quality as far as color and picture go is hard to compete with.
Now take your flat panel plasma TVs on the other hand. They're rolling out of the stores like wildfire. They're slim and have large screens, which makes them ever popular with consumers. You have your choice of either 'LCD' or 'Plasma'. The LCDs function much like a laptop computer. And the Plasma TVs operate by lighting up thousands of little small fluorescent lights.
Buying a TV like the Panasonic TX-L37S10 can be overwhelming, unless you educate yourself a bit and learn about the basic differences in them. Remember this about the plasma TV. It has a higher resolution than the CRTs through the use of digital signals. But some of them can still fall short of displaying the total resolution of an HDTV. That's why they're called enhanced-definition rather than high definition. It pays to do a little research before you shop.
It helps if you have an idea about if you need S-video inputs or not. Also if you may want or need RCA jacks in front. What about a digital comb filter? And will any of these things influence the quality of my viewing a movie or sports event? Questions like this will indeed pop up when you start shopping for your TV. So it's best to be prepared with some knowledge about such things.
Do you buy into the notion that 'bigger is better' when owning a TV? It depends on your situation and of course, the TV. I've seen smaller TVs that make you squint to see them, while huge TVs made everything a blur unless you sat a mile away. You need to keep in mind where you'll place your TV and what size TV that space calls for.
TV sizes are obtained by measuring diagonally across the screen. Remember that a flat-panel TV is not going to take up as much space as a regular TV. You can even hang a flat-panel on the wall and not even consider your furniture layout except for looks.
With a screen that's over 40 inches, it's worth looking into a rear-projection CRT. This takes the concept of a projector and adds it to a screen for a one-two punch of a picture. The image gets projected onto the screen, which is then viewed from in front by you.
The CRT type TV utilizes three cathode ray tubes for combining it's main hues of red, green, and blue. These types of TVs have been the mainstay of home theaters for many years. They present you with a better investment per dollar, and they always have a great picture with good black level quality.
If there are any drawbacks to the rear-projector CRTs, it's that they're heavy and deep in the back. They also don't perform well under bright lighting. They're hard in the maintenance department and their viewing angle can be quite narrow. But the quality as far as color and picture go is hard to compete with.
Now take your flat panel plasma TVs on the other hand. They're rolling out of the stores like wildfire. They're slim and have large screens, which makes them ever popular with consumers. You have your choice of either 'LCD' or 'Plasma'. The LCDs function much like a laptop computer. And the Plasma TVs operate by lighting up thousands of little small fluorescent lights.
Buying a TV like the Panasonic TX-L37S10 can be overwhelming, unless you educate yourself a bit and learn about the basic differences in them. Remember this about the plasma TV. It has a higher resolution than the CRTs through the use of digital signals. But some of them can still fall short of displaying the total resolution of an HDTV. That's why they're called enhanced-definition rather than high definition. It pays to do a little research before you shop.
0 comments:
Post a Comment