 Have you ever wondered what you need to look for when purchasing a TV? Let me give you an example back in the day and we drove around the city Every house had a antenna on top of the roof when you went inside the house. There was one TV When you wanted to watch TV you got up off the sofa you turn the TV on you change the channel adjust the volume Sat down that show is over you got back up off the sofa sofa Change the channel adjust the volume again sat back down etc. Well nowadays things a little bit more complicated For example back then all TVs were picture-tube TVs and since they don't make those anymore You have to decide to want plasma or I want LCD or LED which is basically an LCD TV with LED backlighting Also, do I want 2d or 3d and 3d is the future of Television yet you need to have 3d glasses plus you need to have 3d content And what I mean by that is if you want to watch a 3d movie for example on your 3d TV You've got to have first a 3d TV. You've got to have a blu-ray a DVD player capable of playing a 3d disc and you need to have a 3d disc itself to play So if you have all those great picture, however There's not much 3d content out there though. It's growing every day You might liken it to when you first bought your high definition TV say four or five years ago There wasn't much high definition content on there in the picture. They're pretty bad now more Programming is available in high definition and it looks pretty good One of the way of looking at it is say you bought a high-performance sports car And it took premium gas, but the city living doesn't offer premium gas Just regular well the car will run but won't run at its peak in the same as with a 3d TV You need 3d content in order for it to get the most Out of your purchase another thing too in the future proof your TV or make it So it doesn't go off sleep as you walk out the door is you want to make sure it's internet capable in other words You all have wireless Laptops you sit down you go anywhere in the house and log on the internet while TVs now pretty much become Computers and they have internet capabilities built in which means you can surf the internet If you want you can watch TV or you can watch streaming audio and video say Netflix for example over the TV also You want to make sure that if you do want to do this see what applications or apps come with your TV Skype is my personal favorite For those of you who aren't familiar with Skype if you remember the Jane and George Jetson back on the TV show the Jetsons They sat down in front of a TV and they could see each other as well as talk to each other That's pretty much what Skype does This is a pretty handy if you're a grandfather you happen to have sons and daughters and grandsons in other cities You can sit down in front of your TV and review your children And the only thing you need to do to make it happen It's got to be internet capable plus you need to put a webcam on the TV So that's something to consider and finally what brand of TV do you buy there's so many of them out there today We live in a global economy. Well, the majority of TVs come from Japan Korea and China And so again, whichever one gives you the best picture quality is the one you probably want to choose However, the price is something else again You get what you paid for the more you pay for TV normally the more features and the better picture you get and Finally you want to consider service after the sale since most retail stores today that sell TVs Do not have service departments You need to find out in the unfortunate event that my TV does break down either during the warranty or after the warranty Who is going to service it? So again, you might want to ask the salesperson that and either just some of the things that you want to look for when purchasing a TV