Showing posts with label Television. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Television. Show all posts

Monday, November 19, 2012

Amazon's Cyber Monday Deals

 Cyber Monday is the monday after the black friday.
Just to sell their stuff the online retailers wanted to have their share of SALE.

Amazon also joined and below is the link for Amazon's cyber monday sale.

This is the link:


Shop Amazon - Cyber Monday Deals Week


Wednesday, September 14, 2011

America's got talent 2011 - Finals

Last night four acts performed.

 1.Landau Eugene Murphy Jr
 2.Team iLuminate
 3.Poplyfe
 4.Silhouettes.

 Landau was wonderful last night as was Team iLuminate.Right from the begning I am not a great fan of Poplyfe.And she missed few notes in her song.

 I need to say something about Silhouettes.All the judges were telling that this is a unique act.As far as I recollect it is not.Remember the Oscars where Ellen hosted.They had the real professional dance troupe doing the same act much better.And I am not sure why the judges were saying that they have never seen it before.

 So my pick here is Landau Eugene Murphy Jr.He is a singer and he does it good.Based on the data for the past few years its the singers who are winning it.So he is the one who is going to win.

Wednesday, September 07, 2011

My picks for the final four of America's Got Talent 2011

 Most of the semi final acts last night did their act very good.But some of them didn't meet the expectations.To point out one "Miami All Stars".

 They were so awsome from the begning of the series.But they didn't do as good as the last time.I am really disappointed.But if they proceed to the finals I will be happy.Just want to see what they have up their sleeve for the finals.

 I am not going to be explaining what happened last night for each and every act.You can watch them in you tube.

 Here are my picks for the final 4 from last night.Lets see whats going to happen tonight.

  1. Landon Swank.
  2. Smage Bros.
  3. Landau Eugene Murphy Jr
  4. Team iLuminate.
 Lets wait for the results tonight.

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Finally it happened in america's got talent 2011

 Yes finally it happened!!!

Whatever Howie wished for happened finally!!!

And I wrote about it last week that it would definitely satisfy him.

It happened finally.

Finally a guy caught on fire on america's got talent.

See the clip...

Are you happy now Howie?????


Wednesday, August 24, 2011

My picks on America's got talent 2011 Semi finals

 Last night at the semi finals on america's got talent 2011 every act stepped up from the previous rounds.Every one did their best.Now the question is who will win this round.

 I liked Sandou Trio Russian bar.They were ok when the girl jumped on the bar balanced on the shoulders of the two men.Then they kept some nails on the ground and then she jumped again and the judges especially Howie liked it a lot since that was "DANGEROUS" to him.

 Last night they took off the Russian Bar from the title and became just Sandou Trio.The didn't jump instead sang a song playing a piano.Did I mention that she and the piano was hanging from the ceiling and while she played they piano and her were turned upside down? The background was nice but the singing is not that great,but you have to remember that she is singing upside down.And as usual Howie mentioned that the dangerous part was missing.

 Someone should light themselves on fire and should run around the stage.So that he will be satisfied with danger part.

 Coming to my picks on the two teams.

 1.I liked the dancing of Miami All Stars.It was a feast to the eyes to watch.They kind of remade the dance scene from the movie "The Mask".All the guys are dressed in various shades of Jim Carrey dress and all the girls as Cameron Diaz.But no one uttered the word "The Mask".Sharon carefully said that the dance is like a movie.
 I liked the dance.I really enjoyed it.

Here is the clip.

2.Team iLuminate:

 Team iLuminate was also wonderful.They have designed the dance moves as a video game.Everything computer controlled and completely like a video game.
I liked it too.

Here is the clip.



  I wish the above two acts gets through for the finals.

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Top 10 Streaming Digital Media Players

Top 10 Streaming Digital Media Players

Kiss good bye to your cable company.No not yet.But the time is coming soon.If you are not interested in the current episodes and if you are ok with watching older tv episodes and If you are ok watching old movies,then you will be really interested in these streaming devices.

Basically you will be paying only for the internet and everything else is free is you are ok for the above said.

Still you are not completely thrown in to the old age.If you pay a small monthly subscription you will be able to watch streaming movies without advertisements.
Also you can watch the newer released movies as pay per view.And there won't be any subscription costs.

Streaming Players

What do Streaming Players do?

Most of the streaming players connect to internet via your home network and stream the videos from the video sources like netflix,hulu,google videos ,youtube etc.

What are the benefits of this kind or Digital Streaming Devices?

1.You can watch the program that you like at anytime.This basically gives you the flexibility of living your way of life and not depending on the broadcast time.

2.Most of the programs are free.

3.Not only you are able to watch the programs provided by the broadcast television you can also watch interesting videos posted by common people like us.Sometimes these videos are more interesting than the ones that we get on broadcast television.

4.Some of the streaming media players allow you to browse the internet from your television.Which means you don't need to have a PC(personal computer) to browse the internet.

5.Some of the streaming media players allow you to connect to social networking sites like facebook , twitter etc. This should be very helpful for older people who are not tech savvy.They don't need to worry about something going wrong like in a PC.

As far as disadvantages :

You don't get to watch the newest episodes or some of the live tv.


List of top 10 Digital Media Players and Streaming Devices:


2. Roku 2 XS Streaming Player 1080


4. Western Digital WD TV Live Plus

5. Roku 2 XD Streaming Player 1080p

6. Boxee Box

7. Western Digital WD TV Live Hub

8. Sony SMP-N100 Streaming Player with Wi-Fi


10. Iomega 35039






Friday, August 19, 2011

Top 10 Streaming Media Players

Top 10 Streaming Media Players

 
Kiss good bye to your cable company.No not yet.But the time is coming soon.If you are not interested in the current episodes and if you are ok with watching older tv episodes and If you are ok watching old movies,then you will be really interested in these streaming devices.

Basically you will be paying only for the internet and everything else is free is you are ok for the above said.

Still you are not completely thrown in to the old age.If you pay a small monthly subscription you will be able to watch streaming movies without advertisements.
Also you can watch the newer released movies as pay per view.And there won't be any subscription costs.

Streaming Players

What do Streaming Players do?

Most of the streaming players connect to internet via your home network and stream the videos from the video sources like netflix,hulu,google videos ,youtube etc.

What are the benefits of this kind or Digital Streaming Devices?

1.You can watch the program that you like at anytime.This basically gives you the flexibility of living your way of life and not depending on the broadcast time.

2.Most of the programs are free.

3.Not only you are able to watch the programs provided by the broadcast television you can also watch interesting videos posted by common people like us.Sometimes these videos are more interesting than the ones that we get on broadcast television.

4.Some of the streaming media players allow you to browse the internet from your television.Which means you don't need to have a PC(personal computer) to browse the internet.

5.Some of the streaming media players allow you to connect to social networking sites like facebook , twitter etc. This should be very helpful for older people who are not tech savvy.They don't need to worry about something going wrong like in a PC.

As far as disadvantages :

You don't get to watch the newest episodes or some of the live tv.

List of top 10 Digital Media Players and Streaming Devices:


2. Roku 2 XS Streaming Player 1080


4. Western Digital WD TV Live Plus 1080p HD Media Player

5. Roku 2 XD Streaming Player 1080p

6. Boxee Box by D-Link

7. Western Digital WD TV Live Hub 1 TB Media Center

8. Sony SMP-N100 Streaming Player with Wi-Fi

9. Patriot Box Office 1080p High-Definition Media Player PCMPBO25 (Black)

10. Iomega 35039 1 TB ScreenPlay DX HD Media Player






Thursday, August 18, 2011

Streaming movies to TV

Streaming movies to TV :

            This post discuss about the streaming of movies from internet to TV via Roku player.

 What is Roku?

            Roku is a media player which connects to your television either wired or wireless.
It also comes in different versions. It’s a HD player.

            For Roku player to function you should be having a good router. It should atleast be a G router or N is better.

            With Roku player you can watch instant movies from a lot of available movie streaming services. One great example being Netflix.The other is Amazon instant video.

 I connected the roku player wirelessly to the router and started streaming netflix videos to my HDTV.

I was suspecting the picture quality before I bought the player but the picture quality was very good.It is not like a HD channel but you get a very good picture quality similar to the one from an upconverting DVD player.At that time netflix is the major channel that was available in the ROKU player.There were few other documentary channels like the NASA tv etc.


Then amazon added its channel to ROKU, which I mentioned already. It is called Amazon instant video, where you can rent movies, watch trailers etc. That’s where the channel lineup started building up.


Now if you see the channel line up in ROKU player there are a lot of paid channels and free channels available for ROKU.


One doesn’t have to have a cable or any other TV sources except the ROKU player. Most of the tv shows you can watch from HULU plus.


There is a whole free movie channel available in ROKU called as CRACKLE which has a lot of movies to watch with very few advertisements.


For the Indian population they have a huge line up of the channels.


As for as the indian community are concerned they get dish tv or the direct tv to watch their favorite language channel.Even if they don't watch indian channels when their parents visit from India they install dish or direct tv with or without contracts.


But if you have a ROKU player you can have most of the channels without the need for any equipment installation.


Here are a few channel lineups in ROKU:


Channellive - offers Tamil channels(Sun TV, Kalaignar TV, Jaya TV, Mega TV, Isai Aruvi, Jaya Max, Angel TV Free*: Chutti TV, Podhigai),Telugu channels,Kannada channels and is in testing phase of malayalam channels.
BOMTV - offers over 15 Malayalam channels(Asianet news,Asianet ,Asianet Plus,Asianet USA,india vision,Kairali news,MCN,Jeevan TV ,Powervision ,Shalom,Yes Channel ).
ReliableIPTV - offers lot of Telugu channels(ETV,MAATV,GeminiTV,LocalTV,TV1,Vanitha TV,ATV) and news channels. 
Bollywood - This is a free channel that offers Bollywood movies and shows.

The above said are only a small fraction of what ROKU offers.If interested go to http://www.roku.com/ to see the channel line up.


 Now the newly introduced ROKU player has a famous built in game”Angry Birds”.

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Wooo Hooo Kinetic King is back

 And so is Charles Peachock.

 If you were reading my blog I have posted last week that the judges decision of sending Charles Peachock is not right.And Kinetic King is one of my favorites in the game.

 So I think the judges also felt that sending Charles Peachock is wrong and brought him back.Don't tell me its just Piers who brought him back.We all know that a team works on that.

 Peachock did good but not that great.He was entertaining last week.Since this guy Howie wanted danger he started doing some boring fire tricks.If Howie wants danger and fire then every participant is going to pour gasoline on themselves and lit them on fire and run around the stage.

 You know what Howie??

 Danger is Boring.You can watch is for a minute or 2.But not for 90 minutes. Remember the execution scene from Green mile? :)

So as they said he didn't screw up majorly.But it was also not so entertaining as the previous round.

 As far as Kinetic King is concerned he played it very safe.

 Instead of the sticks which may stick togather he used cans.And it went well.

Its upto America to decide who forwards.

Here is the clip of Kinetic King from last night.

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Google acquiring Motorola Mobility Inc. What does that mean to us?

 A couple of years back Apple and Google were hand in hand friendlier companies.Then Google CEO Eric Schmidt was on the board of Apple.

 Then apple decided to enter into the cellphone market and introduced iphone in 2007.Even then google and apple were in friendlier terms.But when google introduced android 1.0 in september 2008 the relationship kinda broke.

 But in an important note google acquired android even before iphone was released.Android was acquired in the year 2005.

 What is android?

 Before being acquired by google android is a small company which was in development of a unix based operating system for the cell phones.It is the name of the company as well as the name of the operating system.

Within 2 years of introduction of android it over took iphone in sales.

 Then all the patent fights started.

 Apple sued Samsung.Samsung sued apple.Nokia sued apple and won.Apple sued HTC.

 Mostly apple sued Samsung and HTC for the UI(User Interface) and the design of the phone.I am not sure why samsung didn't sue Apple for its iphone 4 resembling Samsung Instinct.Here is the link where I discuss the resemblance of iphone 4 and samsung instinct.

 Basically android is a linux based mobile OS(Operating System).And it is an open source system,meaning anyone can download the OS and customize it according to their needs.

 Thats what Samsung and HTC did for their phones.And apple sued.

 So it is time for Google to step in.But how?

 Google is not an electronics manufacturer nor does it have the mobile patents.

  When Google tried to acquire Nortel networks patents few months ago apple and microsoft together out bid google to acquire them.Apple and Microsoft together. :).

 So by buying out motorola mobility Inc google is acquiring a lot of patents that Motorola holds.Which puts google in a very good position for not only defending the phone manufacturers who use android as their OS but also for improving android based phone's hardware.

Here is the excerpt from the Google press release:

The acquisition of Motorola Mobility, a dedicated Android partner, will enable Google to supercharge the Android ecosystem and will enhance competition in mobile computing. Motorola Mobility will remain a licensee of Android and Android will remain open. Google will run Motorola Mobility as a separate business.

Larry Page, CEO of Google, said, “Motorola Mobility’s total commitment to Android has created a natural fit for our two companies. Together, we will create amazing user experiences that supercharge the entire Android ecosystem for the benefit of consumers, partners and developers. I look forward to welcoming Motorolans to our family of Googlers.”

 Now that google has their own hardware they can bring more bells and whistles to android and the phones that they are going to manufacture.

 And Motorola has been manufacturing a series of products.So google will be trying to implement android in all the products.

 Imagine the cable box that we have also delivers google tv without the need for buying a seperate equipment.That would be awesome. 

 Also the android version for the tablets can be improved a lot since motorola has its own tablet.It can be optimized for a dual core machine.

 So in short google acquiring Motorola is a very good news for us.And we can expect a lot of equipments to have android and everything integrated to your gmail account.Send and receive emails from your tv and no need for a computer.Shop through your tv or mobile phone.The possibilities are nearly endless.





Tuesday, August 09, 2011

Final Hollywood Round and You tube round in Americas got Talent 2011 -- How Brett made Marilyn disappear

( I saw how Brett made Marlyn disappear.Read the full post.)

 Today is the final hollywood round.And this is the youtube round where last year runner up Jackie Evancho submitted her audition.(That is a brilliant way of submitting auditions without embarassing yourself in front of millions.But That will not give you your 15 minutes of fame if your act is not extremely good.) 

Here is the excerpt of today's show.Videos tomorrow.

TNC Elite: They are todays first dance troupe to do their act.They are cloggers.Even though they had a not so great start they finished it good.Not great but good.



BRETT DANIELS:He made the Marlyn Monroe picture turn white and a real Marlyn Monroe appear.I was able to see how he made the Marlyn Monroe picture white.The picture was made of 2 pieces and I was able to see the picture going up when he pulled the curtain.Similarly he could have done for the appearance of Marlyn's picture.But his act was nice.But slow.Piers buzzed.


GABE ROCKS:Just doggy tricks.Nothing impressive.Did not rock.Except if you think peeing on Piers' picture.Piers buzzed.


AEON : Bunch of guys doing acrobatics and in a ring.Not that great.Piers buzzed.
 

BREENA BELL:The Contortionist.She is 8 years old.For her age she for performed well.But as the judges said that this is too early for her.I would agree with Piers that she has to prepare for the olympics for gymnastics. Piers buzzed.

KEVIN COLIS:Singer.Sang a song with a guitar.Good voice.

BETH ANN ROBINSON:Ballet style dance.Good.


GYMKANA: Acrobatics team.With the ladder.Another amazing acrobatic group where girls took all their risks and the guys where simply standing. Kidding.


KALANI BASKETBALL FREESTYLE:He is from Honolulu.He did few amazing tricks with basket ball and the judges doesn't seem to like it much.Piers buzzed.

WEST SRINGFIELD DANCE TEAM:Another dance troupe.Dressed as Vampires.And with contacts in their eyes.OK dancing but the judges seemed to like it.


MATT WILHELM:This is nice.This guy did awesome tricks in his cycle in the dark in black light entertainment.

POWERHOUSE: A coir dance group.The costumes and the lighting were nice.But the dance was ok.Howie buzzed.

And thats all for tonight folks. I will update the videos once they are available.

Thursday, August 04, 2011

Thats not right,Sharon and Americas Got Talent 2011


Last night was the results night in Americas got talent 2011. The results were announced.

First the dance group Fatally Unique got selected for the next round.

Then Zuma Zuma - all male pole dancing and Piers Morgan liking group got selected for the next round.(Piers is the one who said who would like to see male pole dancer a few rounds back ,or something in a similar meaning) .

Then the team iLuminate went through for the next round.And Sharon praised this group a lot.

This team iLuminate is an enhanced version of Fighting Gravity last season.I am just saying this to compare those two acts and not in any way to degrade team iLuminate.In fact I love team iLuminate and would be happy if they win.And there was another group called Arc attack last year.They were also awsome last year.

The reason I mentioned Arc attack and Fighting gravity beacuse when one of the acts performed Sharon said that it was too technical for her and she dont understand and it was a no from her.

So if an act was wonderful and everyone likes it and if Sharon don't understand its a NO.Or in the judges round she will vote NO and you are in danger of getting eliminated.


Coming back to last night the host Nick Canon announced that the fouth and the fifth place acts were juggler Charles Peachock and comedian Melissa Villasenor.

Charles Peachock played a piano with his juggling balls.Not just hitting the keys but a meaningful music.

Melissa Villasenor mimiced Sharon and Luke Wilson.

Here are the videos of them performing.

Charles Peachock:


Melissa Villasenor:


The judges are supposed to pick an act between these two.

Sharon said all the nice things about the juggler but voted for the comedian.

Piers voted for the juggler.

Howie voted for the comedian.

So the comedian advanced.And the juggler was sent home.

Here are my questions:

1.If America has voted fouth and fifth place ,shouldn't the person voted in the 4th place advance?If no then why America is voting at all?

2.If two of the judges don't understand an act,but if the rest of america enjoys it ,still the act gets axed.Dosen't it say in your face America we can do whatever we want?

Watch the videos and you decide.

Wednesday, August 03, 2011

Why Kinetic King should move to the next round in Americas Got Talent 2011

Kinetic King .
 He is a geek.He is an artist and he is a lone wolf.He is a little bit of everything.

Even though his chain reaction didn't work last night because of the humidity he has more in him.

Imagine this every other act had a team working for them and this guy alone came to conquer.

If at least he moves to the next round we can judge what he has in him.


See his last night's video below.

Tuesday, August 02, 2011

Biggest Disaster in America's got Talent 2011- THE KINETIC KING gadget didn't work on live TV


I liked the Kinetic King.

He made gadgets using tongue depressors (flat wooden sticks) and then like chain reaction those gadgets would explode.

watch below.



It is very interesting to watch.Its like a chain of dominoes and instead of dominoes he uses tongue depressors.

For the America's got Talent live show today he worked for 36 hours to construct a biggest chain reaction and he was going for Guinness record.

And when the girl started the chain reaction nothing happened.And he was baffled and dumb found.

He was really not able to understand what happened.

And the possible theory was that because of the humidity in Hollywood the sticks stuck together and didn't cause a chain reaction.

I do accept the theory.And I would like to see him in the semifinals to see what he can do.

Please vote for him so that he can come for the semi finals and show us what he can do for the Guinness record.

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Netflix continues......

 As you see from my last post I was thinking about the netflix service.
 Whether to keep it or disconnect it.

 I started with netflix for DVDs by post.But after netflix introduced streaming and after I got the roku player I was able to watch good amount of old movies without waiting for the DVD and I kind of got into that.I have watched a lot of oldies so to speak.

But the DVDs I get totals to 4 DVDs per month.Sometimes I even get 1 DVD a month.(I am so lazy to post).

So I have decided to keep the online streaming service alone.

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Netflix

I thought of posting about netflix last week.I got a little bit lazy and yesterday netflix announced a price increase and most of the users are agitated right now. :)


But let me post it anyway with little modification....


Few years ago I use to rent from hollywood videos.When I moved to a different state hollywood videos said they can't lend me videos because I have a different state's driver's license.


So I went straight to Blockbuster and became a member.The price was per DVD rented.And there was late charges also.Normally I use to pay three or four times the actual rental.At that time I thought of switching to netflix.


But blockbuster came up with a different plan.The same three dvds at a time.The highlight is that you can change for DVDs at the store itself.I don't need to wait for the movies to come in mail.I will be having movies straight from store. That was an awesome offer that no movie lover will refuse. At that time I use to watch 3 movies some days. I was with blockbuster even after two price increases.

The third time blockbuster increased the price for only selected "heavy users". And I was one among the few who got price increase. I decided to leave blockbuster.

I switched to Netflix. The company that introduced DVDs by mail.

The DVDs came in regularly by mail similar to blockbuster. No complaints.But what I was missing was that the ability to watch movie immediately after I returned to blockbuster.Netflix had an answer to that in the next few months.

To fight the competition from blockbuster, Netflix introduced streaming videos directly to your computer.I don’t need to wait for the movies to arrive in the mail.I can watch the movies directly in the computer from Netflix library.

And when Roku player was introduced I bought it (see my post on the roku player) and I was able to watch the Netflix library in TV along with the family.Slowly Netflix increased the library and included search and add functions directly into the player itself.So I don’t need to go into the computer to add movies.


Everyone in the family are hooked.And I was about to say Netflix is the way to watch movies.But this price announcement came in and made everyone furious.So I am not going to say that Netflix is the only way to watch movies.

Wednesday, July 06, 2011

Roku Player

I have netflix account for the past 5 years.When ROKU came out with their player called ROKU player which connects wirelessly(or wired) to your internet router and streams netflix videos to your normal/HD TV .
I was immideately impressed.
I gave it a thought for few months before I jumped in to buy it.

Before that I upgraded my router to a D-Link DIR-655 Extreme N Gigabit Wireless Router.

I connected the roku player wirelessly to the router and started streaming netflix videos to my HDTV.

I was suspecting the picture quality before I bought the player but the picture quality was very good.It is not like a HD channel but you get a very good picture quality similar to the one from an upconverting DVD player.At that time netflix is the major channel that was available in the ROKU player.There were few other documentary channels like the NASA tv etc.

Then amazon added its channel to ROKU where you can rent movies,watch trailers etc.Thats where the channel lineup started building up.

Now if you see the channel line up in ROKU player there are a lot of paid channels and free channels available for ROKU.

One dosent have to have a cable or any other TV sources except the ROKU player.Most of the tv shows you can watch from HULU plus.

There is a whole free movie channel available in ROKU called as CRACKLE which has a lot of movies to watch with very few advertisements.

For the indian population they have a huge line up of the channels.

As for as the indian community are concerned they get dish tv or the direct tv to watch their favorite language channel.Even if they don't watch indian channels when their parents visit from India they install dish or direct tv with or without contracts.

But if you have a ROKU player you can have most of the channels without the need for any equipment installation.

Here are a few channel lineups in ROKU:

  • Channellive - offers Tamil channels(Sun TV, Kalaignar TV, Jaya TV, Mega TV, Isai Aruvi, Jaya Max, Angel TV Free*: Chutti TV, Podhigai),Telugu channels,Kannada channels and is in testing phase of malayalam channels.
  • BOMTV - offers over 15 Malayalam channels(Asianet news,Asianet ,Asianet Plus,Asianet USA,india vision,Kairali news,MCN,Jeevan TV ,Powervision ,Shalom,Yes Channel ).
  • ReliableIPTV - offers lot of Telugu channels(ETV,MAATV,GeminiTV,LocalTV,TV1,Vanitha TV,ATV) and news channels. 
  • Bollywood - This is a free channel that offers Bollywood movies and shows.

The above said are only a small fraction of what ROKU offers.If interested go to http://www.roku.com/ to see the channel line up.

To buy a HD ROKU player from Amazon go here....Roku 2050X XD Streaming Player 1080p

This is how a ROKU to TV setup looks like.



Friday, December 24, 2010

Buying an LCD TV

  I had a small 20 inches philips tube tv for a while.It is a flat screen.The pictures are very clear in that.It has only brightness and color adjustment.But it was enough the only problem is that I was not able to read the rollinthe g credits at the end of the movie.

  Then I bought a flat screen monitor for my computer.It is 22 inches samsung monitor.I felt that my computer monitor is bigger than my tv.

  So I planned to buy a LCD tv for the living room.

  I did a lot of research and got confused a lot.

  When I talked to people the confusion grew more and more.

  "The LCD tv technology is still emerging.It would be foolish to buy a LCD tv".No I don't want to be foolish.
 
  "Do you know the contrast ratio of the tv that you are planning to buy?".Contrast ratio?? what is it?

  "Do you know the refresh rate of the tv?".Refresh rate???

  Don't the TV makers take care of these things for you?

 When I had the tube tv I don't need to worry about these things.The only issue with that is there are no big screens.And even if they have big screens they are way too heavy.3 people were needed to lift the 32 inches tv my friend had.

 I spent almost a year researching the LCD tvs and the terms used.

 Finally I came to a conclusion that nothing matters if you want to enjoy a tv.Just buy anything you like.

 By doing more research and analysis the time you enjoy your tv is getting reduced.

 So finally What did I buy?

 None of the research mattered when I bought the tv.

 I bought a Toshiba regza.

 I saw this in a client's place and liked it and didn't worry about the specifications.

Here is a link for a Cheap LG 42 inches 1080P TV. Explore enjoy.

LG 42LD450 42-Inch 1080p 60 Hz LCD HDTV