How to Compare HDTV Models Before You Buy

Video Transcript

"Hey, Rokosz, your Digital Lifestyle Expert here with some information on how to compare HDTV models before you go ahead and buy one. Let me tell you, I understand, I feel your pain as your Digital Lifestyle Expert, it is hard to keep up on a different models and be able to compare them. So as a lay person or church trying to make a decision on what to buy for your house or help your parents buy a television, I'm here to help. I do the research so you don't have to. Here's some things to keep in mind. Make sure that it is truly an HDTV, not HD compatible or HD ready. It is a full high definition television. And that it, now we won't look into, okay, so now got an HDTV, now we have to decide how big it is; very important. Measure the size of your room and just because you have sixty two inches space doesn't necessarily mean you need a sixty two-inch television. And keep in mind too, TV is, throughout the history of time, they have been measured at a diagonal. So if you do have a forty inches, it's not about forty inches across or forty inches up and down. The other thing is what is the HDTV as far as its resolution. Well it's mark in numbers like, 720p, 1080i. 1080p. Now, progressive or interlace, p and i; 1080p, progressive; that means that when the laser, if you lock them in the better term in the back, scans it in one time, then you get one scan, one picture. Interlace is two scans for one picture. This happens in a fraction of a second. So your single kp, sounds better and overall it is. But you're going to pay. Alright. But now when you look at something like 720p or 1080i, the 1080 or how many lines of vertical resolution are happening to make up that. So, it may scan twice in a fraction of a second, but there's a lot more in 1080 than the recent 720. I recommend at this time too, unless you're spending a real boat time of money to lie into the 1080i. That's it, it's becoming somewhat of a standard even though there's no such thing when it comes to electronics and production, believe me. So, those are some of the thing to keep in mind; how big the TV is going to be, where it's going to be placed, make sure you understand and can compare between 720, 1080, interlace, progressive and then there's also the difference between LCD, like we're standing in front of here, a plasma which is really going to be at the high end or something like a DLP or Digital Light Projection, that's somewhere in the middle. These real tools, have fun with it, have fun with it like me Rokosz, your Digital Lifestyle Expert saying, "stream you later"."