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football season is upon us that means rabid football fans are upon us and that means that they're in the stores looking for the best TVs to buy I'm Jamie rodol with CBS sports.com teaming up with CNS senior editor David Katz Meyer who has been studying TVs for the last two decades so I always go to the experts when it comes to football and you are the expert my friend football in TV's football and TVs we got it covered all right what is the most important thing to keep in mind when purchasing a TV just break it down the basics the biggest thing you need to know is you don't need to pay a fortune for really good picture quality these days there's some really good HD TVs out there that won't break the bank the thing that I tell people to pay for is bigger screen size so that speaks to football fans you can really get a great large television for not all that much money anymore we really like the Vizio TVs for the large screen sizes for the least amount of money there's some other good brands out there but again it you don't really have to pay a fortune take a great picture but if you did want to break the bank if you wanted to open up the wallet and have a couple flies come out of there what are some things that if people are telling you this is what this TV has this is what it doesn't have that you should keep an eye on - really if you wanted to pay extra well there are some that are worth paying extra for some that aren't I'll start the ones that are worth paying extra for again that's the larger screen there is an extra called local dimming on LED TVs that actually really improves the picture quality and if you're really spending a lot of money there's a technology called OLED Oh le D that has spectacular picture quality but does cost a heck of a lot of money okay so if someone's trying to sell you something that's just not worth it what would be on that list well again with with football people talk about motion so one of the things you see is all these terms thrown around a hundred twenty Hertz that sort of thing I would ignore those the motion artifacts you see in football the blurring and stuff is generally going to be in the source a lot of times so as long as you have a really nice source good HDTV channel feed those motion things aren't really going to do much for you a curved screen not a huge fan of that's kind of just a gimmick yeah so a smart TV a fancy remote you're not going to really use those features much if you're going to be having an external box or a universal remote so again not worth paying us for this right who needs a smart fancy remote when you're just going to take one channel stick with it if your team is playing one o'clock on CBS all right David Katz Meyer with all of your TV trends and how to buy smart