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What to look for when Buying a New TV
What to look for When Buying a New TV
Well iv been in the trade for 45 years
now and it has changed beyond
recognition to when I came into the trade in 1972
But I still get a lot of people say to me
I can,t keep up with it all
Can you tell me what TV to Buy
So I'm going to try to give you some
Idea's on buying a TV
The first thing I will say
is use your Ears and your Eyes
What I mean by that
is always go and look at a Television
and also listen to the Television
There are so many deals on the internet
and in shops you could spend a lot of
Money and Regret
Try to look and listen to a TV
IN A SHOW ROOM
Before you ORDER THAT MAKE AND
MODEL ON LINE
Lets start with the Picture on a TV
I expect every one has got there own idea
of a good picture on a TV
But if you follow these few steps
They will help you in selecting the Right
Television for You
- First of all as I said at the beginning you need to look at the picture
Your find that a lot of show rooms for TV,s
work on a DVD being feed to all of
them so you get the perfect Picture
and you can tell this because they are all
Showing the same Picture
So Ask if you can have the TV you like plugged into an aerial
So this would be the picture you would be watching at home
The next thing is
while it is on the Aerial
change the channel on the TV from channel 1
to channel 101
You will find they are both BBC 1 channels
but what you are doing is changing the
TV between Standard viewing to HD
So when you change between channels
1 and 101 you should see a great difference in
the picture quality
You would not see this difference unless its on an aerial signal
Step 2
Yes look at the picture head on
but also look at the picture from different angles
Your be surprised
Your also be bombarded with information about
4K Television
which is the step up
From HD
But when you start asking qwestions
about the format your find you
will have to subscribe to BT Sport at the moment
to watch 4 K Television
When you take your TV home you will
NOT get this service on normal Terrestrial
Television Signal
Well I could go down the road of pixel drop out
and different grades of panels
but at the end of the day its what you like
Lets talk about the sound on a Television
As we said at the beginning of this page
you need to listed to the sound as well
WHY
Because you will find the sound
on a modern day television is
very tinny
The problem with the modern day television
is they have made the televisions
so thin
The Speakers in a modern day television
are about the size of an old fashioned
transistor radio
So the size of the speaker has been reduced
so no resonance in the sound so no base
But don't worry because the trade
has come up with the sound bar
The sound Bar is a separate system of speakers
that you add to your television
This means larger speakers are used and
are located in chambers to give you a better sound
But there again they all sound different
so its best to listen to a few
before you add one to your TV purchase
One of the biggest problems we get is
when we go out to set up a new TV Only to
the new TV only has 1
Scart connection or NO Scart
Connections on the back
of your new Television
On your old TV there would have been multi
Scart Connections
But on the new TV you will find
they have been replaced by multi
HDMI Connections
Now you might think why would this
worry me
Ok the problem is that the DVD Player you
have only has a scart connection
That old sky Box that you use for Freesat
only has a Scart connection
and that old Video that you use to play
old video tapes has a Scart Connection
So you can see you have brought a new TV but
opened a can of worms
So the best way to get around this problem
is make sure you have 1 Scart socket on
your new TV then you can plug your
old video in plus old freesat box
With the DVD Problem you will
have to upgrade your DVD
to a blue Ray Payer that works
on a HDMI Lead
Don't worry Blue Ray DVD,s will
Play all your old DVD,s plus your
New one,s