Supercharge your FIFA experience
Flat-panel TVs Besides the sleek and ego-boasting form factor, new-gen flat panels also offer round-the-clock entertainment with little or negligible impact from natural lighting. They can be installed in just about every corner of the house and beat a projector's bulb life by a whopping 60,000-hour durability. Don’t forget the cooler and noise-free operation, too.
There are also selected models out in the market with a slew of motion-enhancement technologies. Samsung's DNIE, Sharp's Quick-shot, Toshiba's Meta Brain Pro and Philips Pixel Plus 2 are a few examples of such implementations. While we can't vouch for their effectiveness, they are nevertheless value-added features that sweeten the deal. Watching FIFA can never be complete without friends and soccer-crazed buddies. For this matter, you will need a generous screen estate of no less than 40 inches in size. To ensure everyone has an unmolested view of the onscreen action, keep a lookout for a wide viewing angle which currently tops off at 178 degrees. A 176-degree variant would probably deliver just as well for a smaller crowd of five or below.
Hot recommendations To bring up you to speed, we have narrowed down a collection of plasma and LCD TVs to kickstart your shopping list. Not that they are the best in the market. Rather they are well-regarded models with the right blend of features and performance.
Tips and tricks As flat panels are bright in nature, having soft backlighting is a must for minimizing eye fatigue. It is also a good idea to mount the panel at eye level and a viewing distance that's twice the horizontal screen size lest you end up with a stiff neck after prolonged matches. If you are game enough to go one step further, video calibration will be the next progression for a picture-perfect soccer game. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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