The
Advantages of Buying A LCD HDTV
By
Jim
Johnson
If you are in the market for a new television
set, there just hasn't been a better time to get high quality
equipment that will last for years at low prices. Of course, TV
technology continues to improve and as the new HDTV broadcasting
format becomes more standardized the prices will continue to
fall, but not the precipitous drops that we have seen in the
past few years though.
So what about these LCD HDTVs? What makes
them so special, and what should you look for when buying one?
Well, LCD monitors have been used in
computers for several years now, and they are known for their
bright, exquisite color rendition, so it was a natural leap to
adapt that technology to the HDTV format. LCD screens are much
thinner and lighter than projection TVs and older CRT screens
too, so they can be very useful in smaller rooms that just could
not support a larger screen before LCD or plasma screens came
along. Many people even mount LCD screens to the wall using
special brackets that hold them securely in place, and this is
perhaps the ultimate in space saving design.
If you have such a great, eye-pleasing
monitor you now need to have programming that takes full
advantage of the screen's viewing capability, and that's where
HDTV comes in. It is two technologies that were meant for each
other. HDTV allows television broadcasting to be sent in a
signal that is very dense with digital information about both
the video and sound. It is a huge leap over the older analog TV
broadcasts that most TV stations have been using for years.
In fact, the HDTV signal can carry screen
resolution information up to ten times that of the old analog
signals. So when you marry that much sharper and rich resolution
with a LCD screen that is capable of displaying the signal in
all it's intended glory, you have a combination that is hard to
beat for sheer viewing pleasure.
Just make sure that the LCD TV that you buy
either has a HDTV tuner already in it or is labeled as "HDTV
Ready" which means that it can be hooked up to a HDTV tuner like
those used by satellite and cable companies who feature HDTV
programming.
Once you view television programming with the
combined technologies of HDTV and a LCD monitor, you will wonder
how you managed without it all this time.
Jim Johnson is a successful author and
publisher on consumer related matters. You can find out more
about a
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