Basic Essentials To Bear In Mind When Buying Your First Flat Screen TV.

So you are trying (or lest be more positive about this) going to buy your first Flat Screen TV and you aren�t exactly sure where to start first.

Unlike other guides here we believe in giving good old plain common sense and want you to think about the money aspect first.

Now this might sound daft and as if we are trying to talk you out of spending your hard earned (or �ill gotten� just delete or insert where applicable) cash when you should be basking in thoughts of Plasma or LCD, Aspect Ratios, Screen sizes etc but this all matters not one jot if you get your budgeting wrong.

Stop and just consider this for a moment.

The financial expenditure that you are about to embark upon is probably going to be one of the major items of expense that you are likely to encounter (after the House/Flat and Car etc) so it is important to get it right.

Plan well in advance how much you have got to spend and how much of a leeway / margin of error you can play with.

As they say make the wrong decision too soon and it could be along time for you to correct your mistakes.

The thing is that without proper planning you could be left regretting the fact that you could have scored big-time with a �sales bargain� for just a few hundred more at this stage in the proceedings or you allowed yourself into being talked into spending way more that you had budgeted for and now you can�t afford the electricity bills to power it!

The single most important part of the proceedings is plan and get it right now or live to regret at leisure!

So let�s get started with looking around at what is on offer at the moment and let�s start with the Goodmans GTV27W3LCD

The GTV27W3LCD is a 27in LCD TV and currently these TV's can be found for 350 pounds sterling or 700 US dollars. The resolution of the screen is 1260 X 720 and with regards to being HD Ready the answer is no. The Goodmans has 2 (2 RGB) scarts and the type and number of Multimedia interfaces the GTV27W3LCD uses is HDMI and no connections are available. The type of Tuner for this TV is Analogue and the Goodmans is available from limited outlets only.

So how would we rate the Goodmans GTV27W3LCD?

Well to start with our score for the picture quality is 6, and for the sound quality we would rate it at 6. Taking a look at the number of relevant connections and their availability, our score would be 4. If we take a look at the overall "feature ability" our score would be 4 if we then take a look at the ease of use and overall value for money then our scores would be, 8 and 8 respectively.

Taking everything into consideration our overall view of the package would be that this TV is well away from the latest models in terms of bleeding edge technology and performance but the overall package including the price makes this not a bad deal.

With regards to the prices in this article we have tried in all cases to take an average across the industry from a number of well known web sites and so we ask you to bear this in mind and treat these prices as advisory only rather than absolutes.

Scott James writes quite regularly on the Internet about TV and Home Entertainment issues and more on the above can be found at sony flat screen tv and also at http://bestflatscreentv.biz