Your in Depth Guide to HD & Plasma or LCD TVs.
Site last updated: Saturday, 17th January, 2009 11:30 a.m.
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Best Deals here at Plasma or LCD.
***Many of our visitors are missing out on these deals we are posting. Quick example, the other week the Samsung UE40B8000 would have cost you £1129.99 from Comet and you would have got a Free Samsung Blu-ray Player. Now it would cost you £1224.99 and no free blu-ray player. Remember these offers don't last long so hurry before they disappear.
***OFFER OF THE WEEK***
***>>>Sony KDL40W5500 40" Full HD LCD TV (with Motionflow100Hz) - £799.99!!!<<<***
Plus get £40 off the price with this 5% Comet Discount Code AWJAN5 (can also be used on any product at Comet).
The Ulimate Samsung Series 8 TV - £1399.99 - £70 (5% off code) = £1329.99 - £200 = £1129.99 + Free Blu-ray Player
Although this offer has gone it is still the best LED TV (in our opinion) with £200 cashback, plus use our 5% Comet Discount Code AWJAN5. You can't ask for much more...well maybe a 5.1 Home Cinema System would be nice too but you can't get everything. That said, with the 5% discount of everything at Comet, you could always buy one of these too at a good price.
In addition John Lewis has this Toshiba 32AV633D TV on sale for Clearance - at only £379! This is not a Full HD tv but is perfect for those who are going to be mainly watching standard definition Freeview or DVDs, plus is HD ready for when you do upgrade to HD...and at £329 this is a rare bargain for a Plasma or LCD tv - oh and you get a free 5 year guarantee!
They also have the Samsung LE40B530-P7 LCD HD 40" 1080p Digital TV, £499! This is Full HD and a great price for a Samsung 40" TV and again with the 5 year guarantee included.
Talking of HD - if you do want to upgrade this could be a good time - at the moment Sky are offering a FREE SKY HD Box, plus FREE BROADBAND & CALLS and to top it off £50 worth of M&S Vouchers when you join online.
That's right, we are launching a new site that will be solely based around reviews and providing a price comparison tool for all our visitors to find the best prices on the best plasma and LCD tvs. Right now we have price comparisons only on:
Lots of people have been asking questions about the latest LED LCD TVs. A full review of these latest LCD tvs will appear on our sister site LCD or Plasma - Where to buy? in the next few days. In the meantime, for those who already know about them, then you will be pleased to hear that the Samsung and Sony LED tvs are now on sale at John Lewis, Comet and 1st Audio Visual to name a few.
...and finally don't forget for peace of mind, John Lewis offer a FREE 5 YEAR Guarantee on all their plasma or LCD tvs. Well worth it if you are going to be spending several hundreds on a new flatscreen tv.
High Definition (HD) has now made it's mark in the UK. Every day more and more programme content is filmed in HD and whether we want it or not, HD is here to stay. So what exactly is HD?
As the name suggests high definition basically impoves your viewing experience. This is done by increasing the image resolution i.e. the number of pixels on your screen. In the UK, the resolution we have been use to over the years on Pal TVs is 720 x 576 (SD). This basically means that there are 720 columns of pixels and 576 rows of pixels. Now it's difficult to use pixels when understanding the human eye but basically our eye is amazing in the amount of detail it can see (far more than a few megapixels). Ever wondered why in the past, watching your holiday videos on TV was never quite the same as being back there - well apart from the obvious reasons, the old video cameras were just not doing justice to the images captured on tape. High definition is now beginning to do it justice.
In the UK, the only way of watching HD is via Sky, Virginmedia, Blu-ray Discs or HD-DVD (although this format will be slowly dying out like Betamax did in the consumer world of VHS versus Betamax). However, it is now possible to receive free HD via FreeSat - a satellite version of Freeview where you pay a one off installation fee for the dish and digibox but there is no contract. (You can buy a Freesat digibox and dish from the following stores: Comet, Argos, or Currys). There is one tv in the UK with a built-in HD tuner - the Panasonic PZ81B series that is available in 42", 46" & 50".
Unfortunately, it seems that HD will not be available via aerial - at least not until everyone has turned digital. In addition to this as you are probably aware you need to have a flat screen plasma or LCD TV to watch HD. In the television industry, HD Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) TVs/monitors are used but these never caught on in the commercial world. Flat screens just look a lot sleaker and better in people's living room.