Sitting in a dark, unfamiliar room, surrounded by strangers and focusing your attention on a far-distant object while eating food you can’t even see doesn’t sound like a whole bunch of fun…yet millions of apparently intelligent people do it every week without qualm – It’s the movies!
To me, celluloid is like crack…but a lot less expensive and rather less likely to kill you. And for countless people who bravely share such a geeky affliction, being able to create the whole ‘theater experience’ at home has, for years, been the ultimate dream. So you can guess our delight when we knew the impassioned advancement of modern technology had meant our dream was now real.
Within the span of just two generations television engineering has achieved a degree of refinement that would both delight and amaze those who witnessed its birth in the mid-1940′s. Today’s TV’s, with widescreen displays and 5.1 sound produce color and clarity that would be incomprehensible to Philo T. Farnsworth; And probably to our own parents.
If you don’t have one yet, you need to catch up. From June, every channel will be in Hi-Def and a digital tv will not be a choice, but a need. The problem is, making that choice: Some sales clerks will tell you that plasma is best and other types of display are just frail imitations. But that’s largely because the margins on plasma can be 2-3-times those of all other kinds. So part of the problem is finding the truth.
The process of buying tvs might seem like a minefield, but it’s well worth taking your time; This is a choice that, when made correctly, will pay you daily rewards for the next twenty-years. Plasma is great, but they burn out a lot sooner and use far more power than an lcd tv the same size. But it’s really a matter of what appeals to your tastes.
Just do a price comparison and buy the type of TV that fits in with your needs. Then sit back and prepare to be stunned…
