How to Buy an LCD TV

Video Transcript

"Rokosz, your Digital Lifestyle Expert, here, with some information on how to buy an LCD TV. Awesome. I'm glad you're considering doing so. I'm actually standing in front of our LCD or liquid crystal display monitor. Right now, what you're looking at is forty two inches, and here's how you, here's how you measure a television. It's not forty two inches up or forty two inches down. Televisions, throughout time, for some reason, are measured on the diagonal, okay. So, if we had a tape measure here, it should be forty two inches from corner to opposing corner. That just gives you an idea of how deciding of what size TV you want to buy. Now, most of the screens nowadays have very little, as far as, framing and borders on it. But as you get down to the true decision-making process, you're going to want to know what the over run of the screen is or how big the physical unit is because one of the first things you want to do when buying any kind of television or TV monitor is to decide how much space you have. You may want that hundred inch bad boy, but if you don't have the space, you've gotta get one that, you know, fits into your area, and honestly, if you've got a wall that takes up most of it, then it's probably the biggest TV you'd want for that room anyways. What's a little few words about an LCD monitor like this one. Liquid crystal display, LCD; and that basically means that sandwiched behind the protective glass are two other pieces of glass in there. And well, electricity flows through that at different ways and creates the LCD's, excites them, and creates a little different colors and things like that. So, it's a very, it's a very stable picture. It's also a picture that's very good in high light situations. So, if your wall is opposing a, is opposing a window and you get some direct sunlight in there, this is a good choice to do that. Also, when choosing it, you're going to decide what kind of, what kind of orientation. Well, I highly recommend, this is what they call by the nine by sixteen orientation or what a movie screen looks like as opposed to the four by three which is what the old TV's used to look like. Almost like boxes, but not quite a perfect square. LCD TV's, you want to make sure that you're going to get it from a major manufacturer, both distributor, and manufacturer wise. Your Phillips, your Sony's, you know, Bob's LCD company from China, you may be leery about. The price may be right, but, you know, what's the warranty? How are they going to stand behind their product? How easy is it get; how easy is it to get it back to Bob's place? So, keep these things into consideration. Have some fun because it will be with you a long time. Enjoy your LCD, HDTV. I'm ROKOSZ, your digital lifestyle expert, saying, "Stream you later.""