Black Friday Television Buying Guide Part 1
Other than laptops, one of the other most sought after items this Black Friday will be HD televisions. Purchasing the center-piece of your living room is not, and should not, be a quick and easy decision. There are many details to consider when thinking about purchasing a HDTV and our goal is to bring you up to speed on how to get the best deal on HDTVs this Black Friday.
Our main focus with this guide is value is to bring you up to speed on the best HDTV offers on the best performance relative to the price they will cost you.
PLASMA VS LCD….THE BIG QUESTION.
We won’t get into all the nitty gritty technical differences between LCD and plasma tv’s, the differences and similarities have already been addressed many times including in the following two articles: Plasma vs LCD: Which is right for you? and LCD vs. Plasma.
When flat panel televisions first started gaining popularity there were many differences between the two technologies which made the choice much easier. These days however, the two HDTV camps are very similar in performance and price and in reality you can’t go wrong with either choice unless you are purchasing your TV from the back of a van on skid row.
Important to note is that although burn-in is not even close to the problem it use to be with earlier generations of Plasma TV’s, the fact of the matter is there still is an outside chance that it will occur. The way to prevent this from happening or at least limit the chance of this happening is to really limit the amount of time static images are present on the screen, essentially this means if you are a gamer or plan to hook your computer up to your TV then do not get a Plasma. One good thing though is that burn-in most likely occurs in the first 100 hours of use.