Ever been standing in Best Buy, gawking at all of the televisions hung on the walls, trying to figure out which one looks the best?

After staring at three or four, your eyes start to ache. You don’t want to compare TV screens, you just want to watch the show.

The site HDGURU.com has an article up called Will You See All The HDTV Resolution You Expected? 125 2008 Model Test Results. The web page itself goes through the technical indicators that make one HDTV better than another:

• Deinterlacing: how well a TV handles a 1080i picture, the kind typically used by TV networks/cable companies
• 3:2 pull-down: how well the 1080i picture is made into a 1080p picture (more or less)
• Bandwidth: are all of those 1920 horizontal pixels actually displayed, pixel-by-pixel?
• Static and motion resolution: does the TV keep displaying all the pixels when the image starts moving a lot? (this is really important for watching sports)

A summary of the results is given in the article itself. If you want to view the breakdown for each and every one of the 125 televisions tested, you can go straight to the PDF file.

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