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Buying Guide TV
This is an indispensable item for almost every family all around the world. It is your company to watch the news in the end of the day, or your favorite soup opera, football match, a movie right after the lunch on Sundays, play video games and etc. Nowadays the television (sorry of I am too exaggerated) is as essential as a refrigerator or a stove at home. If you are thinking of buying a new TV set for your house, be careful because there are a lot of changes going on and the new digital TV is coming and it will change a lot the way we interact with the television. Find some tips below.
What options do I have when I buy a TV?
Nowadays there are many options for the consumer when buying a TV.
- Option 01 – It is the traditional television of CRT tube and conventional screen. These models are getting cheaper and harder to find due to the flat screen TVs technology has dominated the market and every store. Even so the CRT TV’s with conventional screen can be found from 14” to big models higher than 29” and they are not cheap but it is worth to pay that much.
- Option 02 – The flat screen TVs are very popular nowadays. The image is never deformed and that gives you a visual comfort and it seems the screen is bigger than it really is. Actually, the space in the screen is better used. Its technology is CRT tube too but the image quality is so much better. A subcategory inside Tube TVs category is the slim technology and that decreases the space between the tube which forms the image and the screen.
- Option 03 – Flat TVs. The first thing you need to know about flat TVs is that they usually have 42” size and can vary specially in the graphic resolution quality. Instead of a lot of people say the flat TVs don’t “burn” in few years. The truth is after it gets to half of its duration time (about 10 years of uninterrupted use) its light intensity started to fade a little.
- Option 04 – The LCD TVs, just like the flat TVs, gets in the slim products category. Comparing to flat TV its quality is its durability because the flat TVs are better in light and contrast.
- Option 05 – There are a few available retroprojection models in the market. Generally these TVs are known by having a rack with coupled speakers but it is not a characteristic. Instead of the tube TVs that cause you a visual tiredness, the retroprojection TVs cause you less “burning” in your eyes after a long period.
What is the best in Digital TV?
The first thing you need to know about the system of digital television is that, for now, this technology will not change anything in the way you watch your favorite program. This is because there is still no regulations for the supply of digital content for high-definition. What we have today in our homes, which is called "digital" is only a sketch of what will be the new way to consume entertainment.
Let’s start with the quality of the image, which has been compressed in formats that still are very distant from what would be ideal for high-definition TVs. That means a good TV with a bad signal can only result in the enhancement of imperfections.
But when digital TV finally arrives, things will change.
If we make a quite simple comparison, it would be as if you had a computer hidden within your television, and it opened a page of internet generated by its TV per signature carrier, and it even choicer the program you would like to attend.
Some way it already happens nowadays with the pay per view system, but it needs to happen at the time when its operator of TV wants it to happen. In the future, a simple example could be applied regarding that day when you stuck until later in the workplace, and when you arrived at home, noted that had lost half of the soup opera. You only have to enter the operator's menu, choose the chapter of the soup opera, and it will happen again, only for you from the beginning.
It is worth buying a HDTV unit now?
Yes The advantage of buying a television with HDTV is that this is a type of device will not become obsolete as quickly, so if you invest money in this exchange now , be sure you will have full resources of the new technology very soon.
What is the technology of a TV HDTV?
Before go shopping you need to know that technology HDTV can be present in any type of television, from the conventional CRT (tube) to the most modern LCD and flat, just look for registering "HDTV Ready." "In the case of flat TVs, it is a so recent technology that all of them leave the factory ready to receive digital signal decoded," says the specialist of Samsung.
Here lies a very important explanation. The phrase "HDTV Ready" means that the unit is capable of displaying images generated by a digital signal, but no TV has the ability to receive and interpret the digital signal alone . At this point there is a discussion about which system will take as essential to have a device called Set Top Box, which is akin to that cable TV box, to convert the digital signal into image. The Set Top Box can only interpret a single standard signal, so it is important to expect the government to be ready before anticipating and buying the Set Top Box.
How do I choose a HDTV?
In general, the main feature to be evaluated at the time of purchase your HDTV is the resolution ability of the unit. Look for those that have the highest resolution possible, remembering that top-line equipment can reach up to 1.920X1.080 lines, which correspond to more than two million pixels - what is called True High Definition. But do not be alarmed because apparatus with resolution of 1.280X720 lines use to offer excellent image.
Other factors that may determine the image quality of your new TV, LCD or plasma, is the rate of contrast, brightness and the amount of displayed colors. About the rate of contrast, the best appliances have this index in 10.000:1 but specialists ensure from 800:1 it is possible to watch good quality images.
Even on the issue of brightness, you can encounter televisions showing up 1,500 cd/m2. However, note that for domestic use an index of 400 cd/m2 is already enough for family entertainment, especially if you have ways to reduce the intensity of light in your room.
What are the resolutions available for televisions?
In general the TVs follow standards for a resolution in pixels, but that number may even vary depending on the format of the screen.
