Since I’m on vacation (if you can count visiting family and working remotely as a vacation) I thought I’d look around the internet for reviews on HDTVs that fit my price range and my living room. Apparently, finding good HDTV reviews is not an easy task.

I like what Robert Heron puts together over at PC Magazine/DL.tv, but the PC Mag review site is such a pain to navigate. As far as I can tell there is no easy way to have it show you all of the 42 inch HDTVs that are under $2000. I can get the under $2000 or the 40” to 50” TV range, but not both. Also, the reviews don’t all cover standard set of information. Some of them use a 1 to 5 scale for different attributes and others just list if that attribute is good or not. Cnet’s review section has the same issues as PC Magazines. Over at the AFS Forums, the members will give you great advice, but it helps if you have a specific TV model in mind already.

What I would really like is a site that reviews HDTVs and lists out their features and specs in a chart that can be used to compare multiple TV models. I realize some of the things like picture quality are subjective, but if you have 2 or 3 people review the same TV and work together on the review then you should be able to get a decent idea of how the TV looks. Then, list out the review in a chart telling me how well each TV looks, what inputs is has, what other features it has, etc. Sure part of a TV’s quality it is based on my eyes and how it will look in my living room, but if a site would review HDTVs in a way that each TV is put on the same scale it would really help consumers find the one that is right for them. It would save me tons of time going to stores and looking at each TV. Then going home and looking up reviews for it online. Then repeating that process about 20 times until I find the one that fits my budget and looks the best.

If anyone knows of any really good HDTV review sites please let me know.