All those confusing labels actually tell you a lot about a television, but you need to decode the marketing spin. Here's a quick primer to digital tv labelling

If you plan down the line to add Blu-Ray, digital, and even pay tv to your TV, it pays to get a screen with the right connections. Here's what you need to know

That 50in screen might seem like a good idea, but here's why you should be careful about falling victim to screen envy

Part 12: Just because you've bought a hulking great plasma or LCD panel doesn't mean you need to stare at it all day. Here's two options for hiding your TV

At $190,000, Bang and Olufsen 103" BeoVision4 TV is among the world's most expensive consumer models ever produced and it's so incredibly large, you might just need a crane to get into your home

With just a few tweaks you can dramatically improve the quality of your TV picture. Here's what you need to know

If you want to compare big TVs sitting on the shelves, go shopping when there's sport on the TV.

Digital television signals are particularly susceptible to electromagnetic interference and unfortunately it can have dramatic consequences for your picture quality.

When buying an LCD TV don't place too much importance on a panel's response time.

If you want to hang your television on your wall, make sure it's got holes in all the right places. Here's what you need to know

Some big screen televisions let you disable any overscan or other distortion by enabling a feature called 1:1 pixel mapping. Here's why it will help you get a perfect picture

If you're shopping for a flat screen TV, be prepared to be wowed by wafer-thin LCD televisions. But while they certainly make a fashion statement, such dramatic weight loss can come at the expense of picture quality

If you're buying a digital TV set top box you'll have likely noticed those Freeview stickers. But do you need it?

It's easy to treat buying a television as a numbers game, but the truth is that most of the figures on a TV spec sheet are so rubbery as to be meaningless. Refresh rates are an exception to the rule, although this is changing.

TiVo have doubled their drive capacity, introduced IPTV capabilities, vast amounts of new content and better home networking options. But can the marketplace handle another content provider?

The Apple TV is a streaming media box for your lounge room but it's the black sheep of the Apple family. Here's why Apple TV 3.0 software update fails to spice things up

Hulu's crackdown on international access has expanded to include popular VPN service Witopia.

Get the latest gear to stream movies from the study to the lounge room, record digital TV and watch TV online

If you're sick of replacing scratched DVDs, build yourself a video jukebox. Here are the tools you'll need and how to build your jukebox the right way

The WD TV LIVE is the latest product from a slew of manufacturers to offer high definition media centre playback with enhanced multimedia features and multiple file formats