What’s Important in an HDTV
When looking at HDTVs, we think the following are the most important buying criteria for your purchase:
What’s your budget? We don’t mean just for the TV set, but also for any attached home theater surround-sound system, special remote controls, automated drapes, lighting controls, popcorn poppers, and the like. It makes a big difference if you are building a home HDTV theater, or just putting a TV on the bureau in the bedroom.
What size do you need? No, bigger is not always better. You can have a TV that’s too large for your space, or too small for your usage. There is an optimal range based on where you intend to place the TV and where you intend to sit.
These first two items — size and budget — will do a lot to narrow your choices before you get to any of the technical or usage criteria, so they are important to nail down first. If you want to fill an 8-foot wall with an image, unless you have a bank account the size of Bill Gates’s, you’re not going to do that with anything but a front-projection system.
What do you plan to do with it? Are you going to be watching a lot of sports events? Movies? Video games? Believe it or not, certain types of HDTVs are better with certain types of content. Sports fanatics will find a big, bright DLP projection system better for their tastes, everything else being equal, while people who watch CNN all day long will want to avoid plasma-screen displays in a big way, due to the burn-in effects of static images (more on this later).
What will you hook up to it? If you already have a decent investment in A/V gear, then that gear might dictate certain types (and numbers!) of interfaces or ports on your HDTV system, like these:
- If you have an entertainment system designed around centralized video switching — using a receiver to switch among video sources and destinations — then you’re going to need a receiver that can switch HDTV content. That might mean a new receiver, which can be pricey and cut into your budget.
- Do you need a tuner or just an HDTV-ready display — meaning you’ll get your HDTV tuner from your cable or satellite company?
What neat features do you want? It’s easy to be swayed by neat features, but in lots of implementations, you can’t access them for various reasons. For instance, if you set up your system so all your signals come in over one cable connection, you might not be able to use your TV’s dual-channel features — you could rely on your cable or satellite box for that. (We talk about these issues in Chapter 4.) Still, features are important to all of us, and we’ll tell you in this chapter about which ones are the most important.
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