| HDTV: Why its hot and why its not
Those high definition TV pictures in the stores look awesome, with every little leaf on a Discovery Channel tree crystal clear, including tiny drops of dew on porous surfaces.
Grains of dirt smudged along a couple of inches of white material on a football uniform helps put viewers on the field.
But watching sweat bead on Rolling Stone's guitarist Keith Richard's craggy forehead might be a little too much digital information. There's no arguing that high definition images on TVs these days are amazing, whatever the programming. But before you shell out $1,000 to $2,000 for a plasma or liquid crystal display (LCD) television, be sure to check with your TV signal provider to find out what kind of special equipment you need to get HD reception.
When TV shopping, you'll still find some of those standard cathode-ray tube (CRT) screens, updated for digital reception.
Big HDTV for the big game?
An estimated 2.5 million Americans plan to buy a new HDTV set to watch this Sunday's Super Bowl, according to the National Retail Federation. But which one should you get? TODAY Tech Editor Paul Hochman helps you make the right play by analyzing three different HDTVs representing the three major technologies: plasma, LCD (liquid crystal display) and DLP (digital light processor). All three of the sets highlighted below show the same image but have different attributes that make them attractive. First things first Before you pick your new TV, you need to look at the room it's going in. What room features are important? .
35 mln color TV sets sold in China in 2006
Thirty-five million color TV sets were sold for a total of 93.5 billion yuan (12 billion U.S. dollars) in China last year, the China Securities Journal reported Monday. Cheap traditional cathode ray tube (CRT) sets still account for more than fifty percent of the market in yuan terms with sales of 52 billion yuan in 2006, but sleek, fashionable flat-screen models continue to make inroads despite the stiffer price tag. Sales of flat screen sets shot up by 151 percent year-on-year to 4.8 million units last year, worth 41 billion yuan, and are expected to hit 8.1 million units in 2007 and 12 million units in 2008. Of the flat-screen total, 3.9 million were liquid crystal display (LCD) sets worth 34 billion yuan, and the other 900,000 were plasma screen sets which sold for 7 billion yuan.
Frequently Asked HDTV Questions
"High definition" or HD is the highest form of the new kind of television called digital television. Digital HDTV is a whole new viewing experience, like a movie theater in your home, even on smaller HDTV sets. HDTV means a widescreen TV picture with 5 times more information on the screen than conventional analog TV. What's more, HDTV offers 5.1-channel digital surround sound, like a movie theater. You can enjoy FREE over-the-air HDTV on Channel 9 (and other local stations). Virtually all local TV stations are now broadcasting digitally and there's lots of programming to watch, like ABC's popular Desperate Housewives and Monday Night Football as well as NFL on CBS and Fox on Sundays and most primetime programming on all of the major networks. Please visit http://www.wftv.com/tvlistings/index.html and click on the WFTV-DT tab to view the complete HD program listing for WFTV.
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