Guide in Buying HDTV

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Guide in Buying HDTV
You have been hearing about HDTV and decided to start looking for one. A friend of yours reminds you that the general knowledge about buying regular TVs from the CRT analog era is not sufficient to select a digital product today, so you quickly review what you read about widescreen, black bars, digital tuners and resolution, and hope things would clear out at the store.

You get into the typical nationwide consumer electronic store most people go to, and suddenly see several dozens of HDTV demo sets staring back again at you. A salesperson is approaching you, the person's face is acquainted the salesperson is the one that sold you the new dishwasher two weeks in the past now the person is selling HDTVs with authority. At that point you start feeling worried, but you hang in there.

Obviously this store is not a quality dedicated A/V retail place. Many consumers make their purchases based on the uninformed advice of untrained staff from typical nationwide consumer electronic chains.

In the near previous, a typical store could only have one of those HDTVs actually displaying Hd, the only one that had an Hd tuner the rest were showing the same image from a video distribution loop not suitable for Hd quality.

Today perhaps the whole store feed is all Hd, and the sets that are staring at you show the same picture, but with different colors, contrast, image enhancements, blacks, whites, etc. because no one bothered to set them correctly. So you start wondering why HDTV is not consistently perfect as is being preached, is that what HDTV is about?

The sales person turns toward you and, in the middle of your consumer stress attack, tells you: "trust me, buy this Tv, it would look much better at home once linked to an Hd tuner". Would you buy a car without test-driving it?

Millions of people went through similar experiences since HDTV was launched in November 1998. Fortunately, some enhancement is gradually seen in the stores, especially in dedicated A/V retail stores, which should take more time to help consumers understand the ideas behind each display technology, and not just quickly sell the HDTV inventory with the red tags, as most nationwide consumer electronic chains do.

Most consumers love red tag savings, and many depart the stores wallet-happy with a product they do not understand. Perhaps many of those do not actually want to understand because the HDTV technology has been launched with a complexity level they refuse to deal with to just get a Tv.