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A combination of holiday deals on high definition TVs, surrounding HD television broadcasts of the Super Bowl and Olympics, and the arrival of sets with bigger screens and lower prices will find many consumers pumped up about buying an HDTV.
And the March 2006 issue of Consumer Reports magazine suggests that there’s no reason to hold [...]
The last holiday season were a big hit for flat screen televisions. Than there was the CES 2006 in January. Now we have many games comming up that ‘require’ a large flat screen television.
Superbowl, Winter Olympics, World Championship soccer…these are very big games that will come to on a large screen LCD television.
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Use the chart below to compare some of the benefits and features of LCD tv, Plasma tv, CRT and Rear Projection televisions.
LCDs, are thin and lightweight. Previously plasma was considered the superior technology, but advances in LCD have brought the two closer together. Plasma technology, while providing rapid refresh rates and great contrast ratios requires [...]
New: High Definition Television Blog blogs
0 Comments Published January 6th, 2006 in FAQ, HDTV, basicsBen Fitts has a new weblog; this one is on HDTV. His first article is a warning for you when you are looking for HDTV: HDTV Ready or HD Ready is NOT HDTV!
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“This is one of those important things to know about when you go shopping for an HDTV.
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Below is a list of advantages and disadvantages associated with flat panel displays.
Author: Matthew Torres
ADVANTAGES
Size: The lack of width and weight is a tremendous advantage over direct view and rear projection models. Flat panel televisions can be picked up by one person, carried between the arms like a fence post or school book and hung [...]
Most television sets found in the home use bulky cathode-ray tube (CRT) technology.The slimmer, flat screens that save space feature either plasma technology or liquid crystal displays (LCD).
Plasma screens (above) emit light, providing a bright picture even outdoors, and can [...]
This is a complicated topic: when you’re choosing between plasma and LCD TVs, you’re actually choosing between two competing technologies, both of which achieve similar things (i.e., crystal-clear, color-filled pictures) and come in similar packages (i.e., super-model-thin cases). To complicate the decision-making process further, price is rapidly becoming a non-issue here.Despite all these similarities, these [...]
If you presently have a 29-inch TV with a 4:3 aspect ratio, you’ll be able to fit a 42-inch widescreen flat-panel TV in its place! With the same amount of floor space, you can enjoy a large-screen TV.
Assuming the same floor space or “footprint,” you can replace your present CRT TV with a 4:3 aspect [...]
Both plasma and LCD TVs have a service life of about 60,000 hours.
In plasma TVs the panel has a service life of about 60,000 hours,(*1) and in LCD TVs the backlight has a service life of about 60,000 hours,(*2) so you can enjoy either for a long, long time.
Number of hours until the panel’s brightness [...]
Since they use different methods to display images on the screen, they produce different results. Plasma TVs are best at producing powerful big-screen images with lots of impact, whereas LCD TVs are good at producing subtly modulated images in brightly lit rooms.
With their powerful Large-screen images, plasma TVs are ideal for the whole family to [...]