How Do You Compare HDTV/Digital TV Monitors?
Your HDTV experience hinges, for a large part, on the type of HDTV monitor that you buy. Different monitors offer different picture quality. Understand flat panel TV. They are available as flat panel plasma and flat panel LCD. Plasma TV is extremely thin at around 3 inches and provides an incredible image quality. It is susceptible to burn-in problems in the first 100 hours of viewing, which can be avoided by keeping the contrast lower than 50 percent. New models even have features, which help avoid burn-ins. A plasma TV’s lifespan can stretch up 60,000 hours of clear viewing, which is long considering normal TV viewing habits. On the other hand, LCDs offer great variety in screen sizes, ranging up to 65 inches in diagonal size. Though the picture quality is inferior to plasma, newer advances have improved it to a great extent. Besides, when viewed from the sides, the picture quality suffers. The prices of both plasma TV and LCD have come down in recent times making them affordable, wi