Given the speed and rapidity of technological advances nowadays think carefully about whatever purchase you make and try and ensure within reason the future compatibility of your TV with industry standards.

Television over the years has taken a great number of forms from the old days of analogue Black and White, through the launch of colour television to the latest technologies known as Digital Television (DTT). There are a number of different ways to receive digital television. One of the oldest means of receiving DTV (and TV in general) is using an antenna (known as an aerial in some countries).

For the purposes of this article we want to take a look at purchasing a new Flat Screen Television and in this case the television in question is the Fujitsu P42HHA40.

The P42HHA40 is a 42in Plasma TV and currently these TV's can be found for 3000 pounds sterling or 6000 US dollars. The screen resolution is 1024 X 1024 and with regards to being HD Ready the answer is yes. The Fujitsu has no scart connections scarts and the type and number of Multimedia interfaces the P42HHA40 uses is HDMI and 1. The type of Tuner for this TV is not required and the Fujitsu is available from limited outlets only.

So given this information, what would be our view of the Fujitsu P42HHA40?

The most obvious place to start with as far as TV's are concerned would be the picture quality and our score here would be 8 out of 10, and for the sound quality we would rate it at 8 out of 10. With regards to the availability and number of relevant connections, our score would be 8 out of 10. If we take a look at the overall "featureability" our score would be 8 out of 10 and the final individual verdicts would relate to the ease of use and overall value for money and our scores here would be, 10 out of 10 and 8 out of 10 respectively.

Finally our overall opinion would be that this is one to watch if your aim is to ultimately watch loads of HDTV but the lack of scarts or a TV tuner make the operability limited but it has to be said it produces high contrast pictures.

With the wide range and variety of makes and models available for you to choose from it is unlikely that you will not find something to suite your taste or satisfy any budgetary constraints that you might have. The choice, as they say, is completely down to you to decide whether to stay at the forefront of what are rapidly changing technologies and fashion or to remain part of the safer but perhaps better developed mainstream. No matter what rout you take we hope that after reading this article you should be more informed as to the correct choice with which to take.

With regards to the prices in this article we have tried in all cases to take an average across the industry from a number of well known web sites and so we ask you to bear this in mind and treat these prices as advisory only rather than absolutes.