FPD TVs
Overview:
The following slide presentation, developed for NIST seminars and courses, provides some tips on selecting HDTVs (high-definition televisions) or FPD TVs (flat-panel display televisions) for your living room. A good way to view the slides is to download (File/Save As) the slide-presentation file (Tips.pdf) to your computer and then view it in full-screen mode (View/Full Screen) in the Adobe Reader®*. You may also put it on a CD-ROM or USB* memory stick and take it with you to view the patterns on various displays provided they can be connected to a computer that is also running Adobe Reader®. Similarly, the pixel-specific patterns referred to in the following slides may also be downloaded and added to the CD-ROM or USB memory stick. Software that can read PNG* image files will be required on the computer used to display the pixel-specific patterns. (Many types of imaging software can read the PNG format; so try it first before worrying about it.)
If
you have already purchased a
FPD TV and are happy with it,
you may not want to view the slides as it may reduce your enjoyment of your TV.
you may not want to view the slides as it may reduce your enjoyment of your TV.
Notes:
Updated 20070403T1150
For *.PDF files an Adobe Acrobat Reader will be required (Portable Document Format®, see http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html ); *.PPT files will require Microsoft PowerPoint®; *.ZIP files will require unzipping (see http://www.pkware.com/ or http://www.winzip.com/ ) to obtain the bitmapped files in *.PNG format (Portable Network Graphics format, see http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/ ), other common formats may be used in addition; the ZIP files may also contain the native format files from the software used in their creation. USB is universal serial bus.