Protecting the Living Room Wall Beauty

Now that you’ve made the leap to buying a shiny new HDTV, you have to protect it, particularly with HDTV surge protection devices. Since most HDTV’s are too big for a robber to haul away and since so many HDTV’s hang on the wall, you don’t have to worry about them being kicked or tripped over. The biggest enemy your HDTV will have to face, assuming you don’t have a large parrot flying around your home, is electricity.

Nothing can kill your HDTV, your home theatre surround sound system and your new PS3 faster than a power surge. Most people have those types of items plugged into a power strip that doesn’t have any sort of surge protection. This is a big mistake. Even if you don’t live in Florida or Texas, where thunderstorms are a common summer event, you need to protect your valuable investment. A simple car accident or a mistake by the power plant can cause a power surge that can literally cook every electronic device in your home.

So, what can you do about HDTV surge protection? You have several choices. You can head down to your local electronics store and buy an off-the-shelf surge protector, but you want to be careful. Many protectors protect only against power-company style power surges, not lightning strikes. Every year, thousands of people lose every appliance in their home in a matter of seconds, and believe me when I say, you don’t have to live in an active thunderstorm centre for this to happen.

You can settle for an over the counter surge protector from Best Buy or a similar store, or you can go a step further and use an APC-style surge protector. This will be much more expensive, but it provides professional quality HDTV surge protection. A company like APC that makes hundreds of different models, will be able to provide you with something that is in your price range and most APC products also double as backup batteries so that if you’re using your equipment and the power goes out, you have the chance to shut everything down first. APC is an excellent company for this sort of job.

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