Is your viewing experience in need of some enhancement? Are you tired of squinting at your tiny telly? Perhaps you’re thinking it’s time to invest in a large screen TV, but are put off by the huge amount of choice on offer, and not sure how much you want to spend. Below we have put together a few suggestions to help you choose the perfect TV for you, and let you get back to the important job of slobbing out in front of the box.

Sanyo 28DFN 28" PURE FLAT Widescreen TV with built in Digital FREEVIEW

Good: An attractive silver set, with a flat screen and built in Freeview. The Sanyo 28" PURE FLAT Widescreen TV 28DFN with built in Digital FREEVIEW is a great choice for your first foray into big TVs. This CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) TV is an attractive option, as it is good value for money and pretty stylish too. When considering a CRT TV it is worth remembering that CRT TVs are bigger and bulkier than some other types of TV on the market, such as LCD. The Sanyo 28" PURE FLAT Widescreen offers a host of quality and technological features. Quality pure flat tubes in the screen will ensure a crisp clear image, while Sanyo Active 3D Surround Sound and Nicam Stereo offer impressive sound quality. The Sanyo offers a complete viewing package, with a 7 day EPG (Electronic Programming Guide) and a digital tuner for Freeview channels. With a host of digital television channels now available, this set allows you to get the very latest digital programming direct to the screen, with no extra set-top box required. Setting up and getting started is easy with user-friendly plug and play technology, and the multi-colour on-screen display is simple and easy to use.

Philips 26" Widescreen LCD Flat TV 26PF5520D Fully HD READY with built in Digital FREEVIEW

Better: Stylish, super-slim design with stand, impressive flat screen and built in Freeview. The Philips IDTV 26" Widescreen LCD Flat TV 26PF5520D with built in Digital Tuner (Freeview) is perfect for those who want an impressive screen but haven’t got a lot of space to accommodate a big television. Complete with its own stand, the Philips IDTV 26A is a high-spec model with a great quality picture. Digital Crystal Clear technology provides vivid cinema-like images by digitally adjusting picture quality to optimal contrast, colour and sharpness levels. Indeed the screen quality is so high, that the Philips IDTV 26 is fully HD Ready, and can handle the highest quality display of HDTV signals. They’ll be no fuzziness or crackling as interference is neutralized by Philips own technology, the built-in Pulse Killer Chip. Superior sound is also guaranteed as the Philips 26PF5520D incorporates Virtual Dolby Surround for a cinema-like audio experience. Incredible Surround mixes sounds from left to right in such a way that it expands the virtual distance between the two speakers, meaning you experience total surround sound but without additional speakers. The Integrated Digital Tuner for DVB-T lets you receive Digital Terrestrial TV to watch or record. This is a real bonus as not only does it mean you get access to all the Freeview channels currently on offer, but you also have the option of watching a programme on analogue TV while recording a digital programme. The ‘8 day Electronic Programme Guide’, allows you to pre-set recording up to eight days in advance. Another convenient feature of the Philips is that is can double up as PC monitor. Simply plug it into your computer and away you go – great for playing games on.

JVC 42" Plasma PD-42B50BJ with a Free Digital Freeview Box

Best: A huge super-slim plasma TV with serious wow-factor. With own stand and supplied Freeview box. If you want an impressive looking all-singing-all-dancing TV, then the JVC 42" Plasma PD-42B50BJ with a Free Digital Freeview Box is a great buy. Not only do you have the reassurance of a great brand in JVC, but the plasma screen quality and other features on offer here are second to none. Sound quality: with NICAM stereo sound and digital sound processing, the virtual surround mode brings the best out of television shows and movies. Channel choice: with the Digital Freeview Box you'll be able to view up to 30 channels through your TV. Usability: with JVC’s own Dynamic Picture Management and widescreen options, this is an extremely user-friendly television. And with your new choice of channels, the Picture-in-Picture multi-channel preview lets you watch two programmes at the same time on a split screen. Additional features: the JVC PD-42B50BJ 42" Flat Panel Plasma TV also comes with parental lock, sleep timer, auto install and a universal infrared remote control. To top it off, you also get a sleek and stylish stand to support the 42 inch plasma panel, and combined with viewing angles of 170 degrees and amazing picture quality, it makes this offering from JVC not only great to watch it's also great to look at!

CRT: The ‘traditional’ TV screen technology – and still regarded by many as the best screen quality you can get. Technology: The CRT works by heating a cathode which causes electrons to flow. Accelerating and focusing anodes turn the electrons into a fine beam that is directed to the phosphors by magnetic fields that are generated by steering coils. The viewing end of a colour CRT tube is coated with red, green and blue phosphor dots, and separate "electron guns" bombard their respective colors a line at a time in a prescribed sequence (see raster scan). The resulting colour displayed on screen is determined by the intensity of the electron beams as they strike the red, green and blue phosphors at that same pixel location.

LCD: Probably the best flat-panel screen currently on the market, giving the brightest colours and sharpest images. LCD screens have come down in price in the last couple of years, but as yet LCD screens do not always come in very large formats, and over 32" the range can be limited. Technology: Liquid crystal display television, a type of visual display which generally uses a thin film transistor (TFT). TFT is a special kind of transistor made by depositing thin films for the metallic contacts, semiconductor active layer, and dielectric layer. Transistors are embedded within the panel itself and are designed to reduce crosstalk between pixels and improve image stability.

Plasma: For the biggest flat-panels on the market choose a plasma. Often perceived as not the most durable screen, new plasma screens are far more robust than older models. Technology: Also called "gas discharge display”, a flat-screen technology that uses tiny cells lined with phosphor that are full of inert ionized gas (typically a mix of xenon and neon). The plasma technology is similar to the way neon signs work combined with the red, green and blue phosphor technology of a traditional CRT television.

HDTV: High Definition television, or HDTV, gives viewers crystal-clear high-resolution pictures integrated with Dolby Digital 5.1 channel surround sound - a truly superior veiwing experience never before possible on standard analog televisions. HDTV reproduces theatre-quality sights and sound by digitising TV programming, allowing it to be transmitted and received in the same way that a DVD player can reproduce movies with big-screen quality effects. HDTV’s picture boosts the vertical lines (lines the screen is composed of) to an incredible 1080, whereas a normal television picture is only 576 vertical lines - just over half that of HDTV.

I want HDTV! HDTV is only available on TVs that are highlighted as HD ready and have to meet stringent standards. These standards are: An XGA screen with a minimum resolution of 720 horizontal lines. HDMI or DVI connection supporting HDCP (content protection) which disables piracy. Component video input (YPbPr)accepting 720P & 1080i input. When choosing an HDTV look out for TVs which are described as having all these features, as this will ensure that the TV is fully capable of displaying HDTV through Sky from 2006.

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