aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South

Thursday, August 25, 2005

Buying a flat-panel TV

While we did our floors, we left the TV out on the porch. Now we need a new one. I want a flat one:

With prices dropping on plasmas and LCDs, now is as good a time as any to finally upgrade your big old CRT and mount something sleek on the wall but of course, the longer you wait the more TV you’ll get for a cheaper price. Also worth noting is that HDTV content still feels like it is lagging behind the adoption of HDTV sets—you’ll have a few over-the-air options if you are near a major city, but otherwise cable and satellite HD offerings are still somewhat new and expanding.

PCWorld has a How To Buy Guide. My complications: no Hi Def in my area, my TiVo is not HD equipped, a general sense that it’s just a skooch too early to buy and there’s no real interim step.