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All about resolution, well almost.

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I remember a time when buying a television set meant walking into a store and picking out the biggest screen on display. Back then, all one had to do was pick out the biggest set, nowadays, a myriad of other factors have to be considered before purchase. Thank God for technology and presently the task of purchasing a television set has never been more daunting. It is frustrating when in preparation for the purchase of that big screen TV and on getting to the store, a bunch of jargon is thrown at you leaving one more confused than when they came. This piece seeks to investigate the various terminologies out there relating to screen resolution to make it easy to a common persons understanding. There was a time when digital television was the term heard everywhere. That time came and passed, and then there came the era of LCD versus LED. LCD technology is the mainstream technology currently in use in most of the television sets. On the other hand, all of the television sets bei