Can you give us some trade secrets?

Can you give us some trade secrets?

Jeff Colen (President, A Sharper Home, Inc.) gives expert video advice on: What one component should I not skimp on and why?; How are people using media in their homes?; What types of control systems are becoming popular? and more...

Most plasma TVs, not all but most, share common glass. In other words, they're giant sheets of glass that go into the TVs. They're only made at a few manufacturing facilities in the world, and what happens are the different TV companies purchase the raw material, the actual glass and the underlying electronics from the same manufacturers, and rebrand it as their own, and they add a few extra pieces that relate - maybe is specific to themselves but that's pretty much it. So a lot of times when you're out there looking around at different types of TVs, remember you're probably looking at the same manufacturer of the glass. Another trade secret if you will, is that cabling - there is no inherent advantage in spending tons of money on speaker cabling. The most important thing about speaker cabling is that A) it's made out of a copper, and B) it's relatively inexpensive to purchase. There are a number of cables out there that can cost hundreds or thousands of dollars that really don't add value to most users that are buying them.