ZDNet Offers Thorough Rundown on Numerous HDTV Options
As any casual TV shopper may know, venturing into your local electronics store's HDTV section can be a bit confusing, to say the least. Unless you keep up with the ever changing technology and terminology of the industry, you risk making a mistake, or worse - wasting money, when the time comes to purchase your new set. This article by George Ou should help sort things out. He covers the advantages and disadvantages of:
Projection: Pro: price. Con: viewing angle.
Plasma:Pro: resolution, colour, viewing angle. Con: price.
LCD:Pro: picture quality. Con: expensive large size sets.
George also advises, bluntly, against getting suckered into buying so-called high end cables:
Consumers need to get the concept of "monster cables" out of their minds since they DO NOT apply to the digital world. There is zero difference in quality between the cheapest $12 HDMI to DVI cable versus the $100 gold plated "monster cable".
He also makes available some colour gradient graphics and explains how to use them in testing the colour quality of an HDTV.
This is a great piece for anyone in the market for a new HDTV, and it's especially useful for those of us that may be more than a little confused and/or overwhelmed by variations in HDTV technology.
Also see this previous post on HDTV resolutions.
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1 Posted 2007-10-22 17:14:23 by Kermit Johnson
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