NewYorkMetro.com has a small article to help you get started with home entertainment. The article states:

If you decide to buy a flat-screen TV, the main choice you'll face is, plasma or LCD? Aficionados debate the two technologies endlessly. All you need to know is that unless you play video games constantly, plasma is the way to go. LCDs have a slightly clearer picture, but plasma is cheaper and bigger (up to 70 inches, as opposed to 50).

Don't be scared off by stories of "image burn" on plasmas (which happens when the pixels inside the TV get hot enough to scorch an image that's been displayed for several hours-say, Super Mario or CNN's ticker-permanently onto the screen). You can easily avoid this with a screen saver (built in on some models)-or by just turning the damn TV off occasionally.

The article discusses TV, satellite radio, and phone line options.

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