Choosing a Devilision

[The Dong]

Deliberate misspell.

My other half just phoned me up away to make a semi-impulsive buy of a 
Sanyo 32" telly and I advised her to take a note of a few models and 
hold off just buying a telly on the spot. Gone are the days where I 
would ever buy something like this on impulse. A telly should last about 
a decade, or longer in my case. It would be like buying a car without 
even trying it out first. Plus local shops tend to only stock older 
models punted as cutting edge.


My first Q is: Is real HD res. very important?

My second Q is: Is there any other feature/spec. very important to look 
out for?



An addendum to this is a semi-rant on how misleading the HD ready crap 
is. On the one hand, we have real HD res 1920 x 1080, on the other we 
have 1366 x 768 HD ready and sometimes, just to confuse even those very 
able to absorb what all the technobabble means, we have this:

http://www.saverstore.com/product/20032516/Sanyo-CE32LD90-B-32-LCD-TV

(read the first two lines of the description for a clear idea)

That is not an isolated case.
Does it mean this telly supports 1920, but downscales it.
Or is it just unclear because it's so messy overall and few who write up 
listings know wtf *ats they are filling in means?

* - All this shit.