In recent times, transmission of television signals has changed from analog to high definition digital signals, resulting in the people purchasing new high definition flat panel televisions as opposed to the older cathode ray type boxy television. These TVs come in a range of different screens such as PLASMA, LED, and LCD screen. The most popular amongst these high definition screens are the LCD or liquid crystal display television screen. If this Christmas you have decided to bring home a LCD TV then just go on reading this article to know about how to determine the most excellent LCD TV your money can buy.

An educated customer is acquainted with all the common features that are generally associated with a flat screen LCD TV like pixels, refresh rates, screen resolution, contrast ratio, viewing angle, HDMI inputs, USB 2 port and so on. The number of pixels and screen resolution determines the quality of the picture. Each television has some amount of pixels, the more the better. In similar fashion screen, resolution for HD ready TV is 1366 x 768 and that of full HD TV is 1920 x 1080, here the latter gives better and sharper pictures.

Response and refresh rates keep the picture steady by refreshing the number of pictures every second these can range from 8 milliseconds to 2 milliseconds, the lesser the better and refresh rate between 50 HZ to 600 HZ, the more the better, these help in keeping the picture steady while you are enjoying some fast action packed movie. The buyer should be familiar with all these figures for the LCD TV he is considering buying. Further the quality of the picture will be affected by your distance and angle of view, see that you buy a LCD TV with highest viewing angle of 178