How to Buy an HDTV

Video Transcript

"Rokosz, your digital lifestyle expert here with some information on how to take that step and buy an HDTV. Well let's start off with HDTV, HD High Definition Television. Now be careful, you don't want to an HD compatible TV, you don't want an HD ready TV, you want an HDTV. Those other ones that I mentioned compatible and ready, you can buy some boxes, some converters and things like that and bring it up. You want to get it HD right out of the box, OK? Now what kind of HD? ROKOSZ, I'm hearing all sorts of things, I'm heard 1080i, I'm hearing 720p, I'm hearing 1080p, what do I get? Well, you're budget is going to dictate that. Basically the difference between progressive or P or interlaced I, is well, how many times it scans it to create the one picture. In P, one pass, one scan, one picture. Interlaced two scans, odds and evens to create the picture. Now it says, now you may say to yourself OK well P just sounds that much better, well it is if you're on 1080 OK? And 1080 refers to how many pixels across and down that it is and that creates the resolutions so a 1080i is going to be a better picture than a 720p, progressive interlaced, OK? Now the other thing is that it what type of HDTV? Well you're major flavors are your rear projection going to give you your best bang for your pocket, in fact I've got a 62 inch rear projection, didn't cost a lot of money and its a massive screen. All the way up through DLP, Digital Light Projection. LCD like we're standing in front of here, Liquid Crystal Display and then up to the Plasma or the forth state of matter, solid liquid gas in plasma. That overall a plasma TV in 1080p is going to be a monster, monster television no matter what size that you buy it in and its going to have that price tag. So make sure that its a full rate HDTV, make sure it has all the modern connections like you're seeing here with the component, composite and HDMI and enjoy it. Plug your Blu-Ray or your favorite game box into it and have a good time. I'm ROKOSZ, your digital lifestyle expert saying stream you later."