After buying and moving into a new house, we started upgrading a lot of our furnishings. Being a guy, and a geeky fan of Movies and TV, I started entertaining the idea of upgrading our TV (currently a heavy analog 27-inch set). I'd briefly seen HDTV displays in stores, and knew there was a bit of a learning curve involved (plug-and-play is a long ways off). So I thought I'd record my journey into the world of HDTV, from the point of view of a non-expert. That idea has become HDTVFocus.

The HDTV resources you can currently find online almost all come from "experts", or those who wish to sell you something. They can be quite helpful - but there are an unbelievable amount of variables, marketing terms, standards, numbers, claims, distortions, equipment out there and a deep lack of simplicity or clarity.

These systems are a substantial financial commitment, and they really seem to defy the urge to "just walk into the store and buy the one that looks best". (Although, one could argue that there is such a thing as over-researching a purchase).

At any rate, if you are interested, please follow along. If you wish to correct my assumptions, please do (comments enabled over there). HDTVFocus is powered by Blogger, and I've really enjoyed the ease of building a custom template (even a silly little resizing trick to keep the window at an HDTV 16:9 aspect). For some reason, this looks fairly bad in Mac IE. I am working on that. It's nice to rely on a good free service like Blogger, rather than my roll-your-own CMS tools I've been using for a long tme now. No offense to TypePad - it was fun to try it out and make this blog work over there, but Blogger as it now stands offers more flexibility (template-wise) for free. Hard to compete with that.

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