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Most of us have said it, believed it, felt it, or written it—that thanks to the Internet, we have a global closeness, a beneficial proximity, with people we would otherwise never meet. One of the many, many values of this is that we can get ideas, have additional relationships, and gain support and advice, the latter of which is what I speak to here. That is, we can go online and compare TVs, for example, before we blindly and in a hypnotized by glitz and glimmer state, walk into a brick-and-mortar store and make a purchase.

So, for example, we can go to those sites directly or indirectly designed with consumer reviews—written and posted by people who help us compare TVs using their commentaries. Provided the writer, the supposed consumer who is writing so we can compare TVs, is not someone affiliated with and making money off the positive compare TVs reviews (which does happen online, so watch who you believe), we should be able to get a realistic report of usability, ease of cleaning (where applicable), endurance, affordability, and other characteristics that will help us, in this instance, compare TVs.

My favorite places to read up on product satisfaction reviews are as follows:

First, there’s epinions.com. The consumers writing the reviews are real people who have actually purchased the products (just check out their lengthy, personal, consistent over time reviews). They assign from 1 to 5 stars, and write descriptive rationales according to the following criteria:

And the efforts to compare TVs are simplified, as the reviews are categorized by type, style, make, model, as well as by particulars/or specs (screen size in the case of TVs) and/or price…if you just want to browse; otherwise, you can do a specific search or a general category search. So a flat panel LCD television such as the Sony HDTV-ready model, for example, gets us to compare TVs by Sony in the $530-$1630 price-range, in the screen size range of 27-inch to 56-inch, and even refine our search by other essentials, such as audio type, brightness, or even keyword.

My next favorite place to compare TVs or any other saleable/buyable product on the planet is amazon.com. The real-life, human consumers there also go by a 5-star rating scale, and speak in general to specific terms regarding the models, makes, and costs of TVs, according to their own consumer satisfaction responses.

Finally, there is the more professional site where you can compare TVs or anything else, the site which is the ancestor to the above and every other review site and publication: ConsumerReports.com. This site is ethically adept, thoroughly exact, and technically apt. The reviews are written by consumers who are also testers and technical writers getting paid to deliver a fair/unbiased bias, if that makes sense.

You will be able to compare TVs with ease, trusting someone, or most people, is or are telling you the truth.