TV Screen Sizes (slightly OT) 2004-02-16 - By Dave Angelini
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I recently decided to venture into the world of shopping for a new TV. In
short, it gave me a headache. But along the way, as I was drowned in a
bunch of new acronyms (HDTV, DVI, 720P, 1080i, XBR, Wega, Component video,
aspect ration, widescreen, NTSC), I decided to boil it all down to a few
simple questions:
1) How big is the screen?
2) How sharp is the picture?
3) How much am I paying?
4) What am I getting over my current 27 inch, 12 year old TV?
What I found interesting is that there was really no comparisons done on
screen sizes between Widescreen (16:9 aspect ratio) and NTSC or normal
screens (4:3 aspect ratios) for any given diagonal measurement. Given that
TV manufacturers only quote screen sizes in terms of their diagonal
measurement, this was rather frustrating. Exactly what am I paying $1000 of
dollars for in the big tube TV's and how much bigger will it be over what I
have now?
And this is where tS came in rather handy. Thus I made the following render
for my own purposes, but I thought it might be handy to others:
http://home.comcast.net/~dianeangelini/Stills/TV_Screen_Sizes.jpg
Some other simple tips for the interested consumer can be found here:
http://home.comcast.net/~dianeangelini/tv_tips.doc
A good source of information is also here:
http://www.hdtvinfoport.com/hdtv-buyers-guide.html
So what did I decide? Well, after my headache cleared, I got so disgusted
with the whole experience I decided to wait one more year.
I hope this is of help to others.
Thanks,
Dave Angelini
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