Things To Consider Before You Buy Your HDTV

Buying your HDTV can lead to confusion and most find it an intimidating experience. However you can make the process easier by breaking it down into smaller parts such as checking the budget ranges, size of screen, style and considering special uses and options available.

Budget Range

The very first thing you need to consider is of course the budget range. In regards to this you will need to look for HDTV of a particular screen size, display type, quality of picture and the name of the brand. We recommend you to read various reviews of individual HDTV’s, though for less than five hundred dollars, you should be able to pick up a twenty inch set with HD-ready.

In case you are considering spending somewhere between five hundred and one thousand dollars, you can go for a thirty-two inch set with integrated tuner. A forty-six inch HDTV is available in the range of one thousand to two thousand dollars. For higher budgets beyond two thousand dollars, the market offers a fifty-two inch LCD, sixty inch Plasma and seventy-five inch DLP HDTV.

Though most dealers are ready to offer discounts on the above prices, you may have to settle for the previous year’s model. This is merely because HDTV technology is continuously getting improved and the old sets are available at lower prices. Another important aspect to purchasing your HDTV is the screen size, which is not like what you were used to with CRT TVs and the biggest size was the most desirable.

With so many extra large screen sizes becoming available in HDTV’s today, you risk being too close to the screen. It thus involves you having to move your eyes from one end of the screen to the other. This causes a dizzying effect on the viewer, most often resulting in headaches.

So it is advisable to buy a HDTV which matches well with the size of your room. The thumb rule for selection is to seat at a distance of two to four times the diagonal measurement of your screen. Which means that for a twenty-four inch set, the proper distance to view from would be between four and eight feet.

Another aspect of HDTV sets is that they are available as LCD, Plasma and DLP. A LCD means Liquid Crystal Display which is more or less the same as found on computer monitors. On the other hand, Plasma sets are those with glass screens unlike the plastic which are used in LCDs. Plasma sets are sure to provide better quality of picture, especially when viewed from an angle, though the screen glare is also more