If you’re hoping to use video on demand and your digital video recorder as a way to avoid advertising in your home theater, don’t.  They’ll find you anyway.

A practice called “advanced TV advertising”, which includes measures to insert ads into DVR and VOD recording, is on track to exceed four billion dollars in revenue by 2014, and also on track to generate a hundred and thirty million by the end of this year alone, making advanced TV advertising an up-and-coming force in the TV ad market.

If you find being forcibly advertised to just a little too intrusive and think you might be able to get some help from the government, then I’m sorry to announce that that too will get you nowhere, as there are actual Congresscritters who agree with the belief that watching television without also watching commercials is full-on theft.

So it looks like, unless you decide to go to an all-DVD entertainment diet, you’ll be stuck watching commercials on TV for some while to come.

We all know that the right way to go when it comes to investing in advanced TV solutions is via the LCD technology but don’t discount some Plasma TVs just yet. In fact, Panasonic may still have something to offer and it comes in the form of the Panasonic 50” TCP50G10 Plasma.

The G10 has some keen attributes in certain categories like HD color accuracy, image brightness, energy efficiency and full 1080 line motion resolution. And at $1800.00, it’s a good buy as any if you want some great visual partners for your usual home theater setup.

(Source) HD Guru via Gizmodo

Today, we are witness to wider screened TVs, mostly of LCD technology. Affordability and price have become a problem for most as these new breed of LCD TVs don’t come cheap. Hence, while the shift towards advanced TV enjoyment is evident, perhaps this 20” LCD TV from Sony, the Sony KDL 20S3000 LCD TV, may be something that may make sense both in demands and financial capacity.

If you are looking for a small LCD TV then you can’t really go wrong with this Sony, but if you’re a little bit baffled by the pretty unhelpful product labelling system employed by Sony then it’s probably worth talking a little bit about the KDL-20S3000’s technical specifications and what kind of things it’s capable of, as well as what kind of environment would best suit it’s use

The only downside to the Sony KDL-20S3000 is its relatively small size that may be unsuitable for medium to large size spaces, and arguably the lack of a second HDMI might be a problem for some but by no means all customers.

(Source) Gadget Heaven