How to Buy a Serious TV

Video Transcript

"Rokosz, your digital lifestyle expert here with some information on how to buy a serious television or serious monitor. O.k. first things to take a look at is price. Well we're buying a serious TV so we got some cash to spend. We're going to be spending between five and ten or fifteen thousand dollars to buy a serious television set, o.k. And that's going to put us in to either the LCD display or liquid crystal display, the DLP or digital light projection or in to the plasma which is the fourth state of matter, solid, liquid, gas and plasma, alright. Then we're also going to look at things in the HD TV range because we wouldn't be buying a standard definition TV if we're going to do a serious TV. So, we're going to take a look at the ratings. This seven twenty P, this ten eighty I, this ten eighty P. Well the P and the I, the P is for progressive stand and that just means if you can see all the little lines that go straight across, the lines of resolution that go straight across your monitor, with progressive it's going to scan all of those lines in each pass. In interlaced, it's going to scan every other line, meaning that it'll scan line one and three and then scan two and four. And it'll do that for all odds and all evens. When it comes right down to it you have to ask yourself, alright so the ten eighty P sounds like it's the very best and if you want to buy a serious television you want to future proof it if that's at all possible. That may be a way to do it. But in reality there's not a lot of broadcast options out there for the ten eighty P format. The cameras themselves are not even wide commercial production of the filming of this clip. So where you're really going to see that extra oomph come out is as if you're buying a BlueRay player, a BlueRay DVD player for your new serious television. The other thing is size. How big is the room? If your room is only shallow, about ten feet, you're not going to want to buy a hundred inch monitor. You'll just go blind looking at it. Your mother was right! No, but you want to have something that you can reasonably look at in it and to buy a serious set up, you're going to want look for a BlueRay to go along with it. You want to see that your cable company has some real options in HD. You may even want and HD antenna to get your local channels and uncompressed. You want to make sure that it's mounted to the wall. You want to make sure it's just that awesome. So for a serious television, it's gotta be HD, it's gotta be big and I gotta be Rokosz, your digital lifestyle expert saying, stream you latter."