With Respect to the Quality of the Image, Plasma Technology is the Best TV
It’s really hard to say what the best TV is these days. With plasma and LCD TVs coming out left and right, capable of HDTV and EDTV, its dizzying trying to keep up with the advances. Every company claims that they have the best TV, and I’m finding it pretty hard to tell the difference. Since I’m in the market for a new television, I’ve been looking into it, and here’s what I think so far.
Plasma technology is in my opinion the most advanced technology on the market as of today. However, I’m not really sure plasma TVs are the best TVs. First of all, they are riddled with all sorts of technical issues from what I’ve been able to determine. Of course, the people who make them don’t really want you to know that, but from everything I’ve been reading and hearing, they have a maximum life expectancy of maybe 5 years tops. Sure, they are probably the best TVs out there when it comes to picture quality, but you have to weigh it against their still exuberant price tag, and low lifespan. They are pretty sweet though, and when I see one in a store I can’t help but drool just a little!
LCD screen televisions are almost as good with respect to quality, in my opinion. Maybe not the best TVs available, but they may just be the best combination of luxury and affordability. Of course, they are still fairly expensive, especially when you start getting into the 30+ inch sizes, but their price tags are dropping. It looks to me that LCD technology in general is going to be a sort of standard in the near future, both with televisions and monitors. For this reason, I suspect that many of the best TVs will in fact be made with LCD technology, even if its not the most state of the art concept we have available to us.
Then of course there’s the good old CRT TV. These are clearly not the best TVs with respect to the quality of the image, but they work great, are tried and tested, and always very affordable compared to their more advanced cousins. The money you save on going with CRT TV may allow you to get a much larger TV. Sure, it’ll be clunky and a pain in the ass to move, but bigger is better, right?
After all is said and done, it’s impossible to say what the best TV is. The best TV is the one that meets yours needs better than any other, so it really depends on what your needs are.
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Tasteland: Featuring the 100 Best TV Shows To Buy, Rent Or Download
Television is a lot like coffee: stimulating, addictive and much better than it used to be. In TASTELAND, Aaron Barnhart — television sage of the Kansas City Star and longtime TV Barn blogger — dips into his first-hand reporting and commentary for a fast and fearless journey through a turbulent decade and a half: from the Leno-Letterman “war” to 9/11 and actual wars … from reality TV to quality dramas like 24 and Mad Men … from the rise of DVRs to the fall of Conan O’Brien.
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Review by Donna L. Halper for Tasteland: Featuring the 100 Best TV Shows To Buy, Rent Or Download
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I’ve never met Aaron Barnhart (‘m a media historian, and I know a number of radio/TV critics), but I had read his columns online, and when I heard he had a new book, Tasteland, I was eager to buy a copy. I’m glad that I did. Like his TVBarn columns, Barnhart’s book is very readable, as if he were sitting in your living room chatting with you about television, popular culture, and current events. The majority of the book revisits some of the biggest stories from 1994-2009, as they were seen on TV, and as Barnhart wrote about them (he revised and updated these essays for publication in Tasteland). Some of the essays are about entertainment– a number of pages are devoted to the combatants in the Late Night TV wars– Jay Leno, David Letterman, Conan O’Brien. But the book covers a wide range of topics– he reminisces about Andy Kaufman, critiques Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, ponders what Edward R. Murrow would think of Jon Stewart, and discusses what’s right and what’s wrong with reality shows.
Some of the essays are serious– he evaluates the network and cable news reporting on 9/11; talks about what was missing from coverage of the Invasion of Iraq; and offers an interesting critique of Al-Jazeera. Barnhart is more than capable of being an objective observer, even-handedly offering his views on both left-wing and right-wing political commentators or assessing the state of TV news; but some of his best pieces are those where he acknowledges an emotional connection with the subject of an essay, such as the one about his friendship with the late TV critic Gene Siskel, or his tribute to Steve Harvey.
Some readers may be more interested in Barnhart’s 100 Best TV shows than I was — such lists are always subjective, and I find myself agreeing with some choices and disagreeing with others. But for me, what made this book so valuable was the Television History– re-living the past 15 years through Barnhart’s eyes. Although he is not a polemicist, he does not shy away from difficult issues, including the incompetence of FEMA, conversations about racism on C-Span, and why then-FCC chair Michael Powell suddenly became so focused on broadcast indecency. But since this is also a book about popular culture, Barnhart offers fascinating insights about such shows as 24, American Idol and Mad Men. Given the wealth of information, I wish the book had an index at the end, but that’s a minor quibble. Anyone who wants to be reminded of where we’ve been and how much has changed (as well as how much has not) ought to get a copy of Tasteland.
Review by Michael Mellon for Tasteland: Featuring the 100 Best TV Shows To Buy, Rent Or Download
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Aaron Barnhart has put together a wonderful overview of the crazy and amazing world of television. Tasteland is a look back at the past 15 years of the tv business, and it is filled with insight and humor and some actual real opinions. The final chapter, I, CRITICUS, The 100 Best, is worth the price of the the book alone. Anyone who is interested in reading the evolution of television should buy this book.