4 Secrets to purchsing a new High-Def TV
#1: What you buy today will be obsolete tomorrow
What can you do about it?
- Don't sweat it. Just read what you can before you buy to educate yourself so you don't make a terrible mistake. If you shop wisely, you can get a tremendous leap over what you have come to know as television.
- The good news is the better stuff coming down the pipe is knocking prices down on the stuff out now. The first run of a product costs a ton of money: research, tooling up, marketing. Then, with volume, the cost per unit plummets. The guys who want to have very latest equipment get to pay the most. Why be that person?
#2. You can't tell what the picture looks like at the store
Make sure to research the different products.
Remeber at a store:- The sets aren't adjusted right. They are turned way up to dazzle you. The dazzle will bother you when you get home. Also who ever looked at the TV before you could have altered the settings themself possibly
- Many of the sets are being fed video poorly. A distribution amp or humungous splitter shares the picture among the displays. That hurts the picture. A store might have 40 sets on one distribution, but the ones they really want to move on a purer source, showing a better picture. You'll never know.
- What you see may or may not be high definition or even good qulity or it might be the other spectrum and extremely high quality that you'll never see again. If it increases the chance of somebody buying the higher marked up television that will get the commissioned sales person a better check you can pretty sure it is possible
#3. There is something wrong with everything
Relax. Don't obsess. It's more a matter of things being done different ways by different designers. For example, on this set, the colors are spot on, but the resolution is a little off. On that set over there, the resolution is incredible, but the red... You are still going to love the setup you buy - and remember - you just might have it for a long time.
Remeber that there are millions of screen dots to go wrong. Not that they will, but the 415th one from the left and 256th from the bottom IS a little shaky. Even though there's something wrong with everything, if you embrace that thought you'll be able to enjoy the big picture.
#4. If you buy a hang on the wall set remember that there will be wires.
Unless you run your power and cable/satelite cable through the wall you will have wires hanging from the television.
That's all for now. Remember no matter what you buy chances are it will be way better than you normal TV that you have today. Enjoy your Home Theatre Experience