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Topic: High Definition Televisions

  
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Sony Claims Victory in Skinniest LCD TV War, and Competitors Wonder Why

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Jan 28, 2009 at 10:47 AM

Sony says its new Bravia ZX1 is the world's thinnest LCD TV at 9.9mm. Certainly Samsung and JVC, each with 7mm-deep offerings, take issue with that. Yet the ZX1, after all, sounds like a technological masterpiece. Inside its skinny ...READ»

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Relevancy Score: 95
Fri Oct 30, 2009 at 1:28 PM

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Some EU Plasma TVs to Go the Way of the Dodo Bird

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 91
Mon Jan 12, 2009 at 6:24 AM

Speaking to a newspaper this weekend, government ministers in Britain intend to ban giant flatscreen plasma TVs that don't meet stringent energy efficiency requirements. It sounds draconian, but apparently it's all with the goal of ...READ»

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CES   |  Comment

Battle Of The Thinnest TVs At CES 2009

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 77
Mon Jan 5, 2009 at 5:22 AM

When news of LG's LH95 "thinnest" LCD TV hit last week, we should've predicted that it was just the first of a series of similar product announcements. At CES 2009, it seems that TV makers are trying to out-do one another with debuts ...READ»

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Sony LCD TV, Home Audio Announcements

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 67
Thu Jun 5, 2008 at 7:40 PM

Sony [NYSE: SNE] rolled out a fistful of sweet-looking home entertainment products today, starting with some uber-thin LCD televisions that were first leaked in April. Never ones to name anything with actual, memorable words, Sony ...READ»

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Why Are Samsung's LCD TV Sales Still Booming?

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 57
Mon Mar 16, 2009 at 5:31 PM

In spite of the worsening economy, U.S. sales of LCD televisions are already up 20% over January and February of last year (and up 50% in Europe), according to vice chairman and CEO of Samsung Electronics Lee Yoon-woo. The boost is ...READ»

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Sharp Announces Budget HDTVs

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 57
Tue Aug 5, 2008 at 9:41 PM

The prices of LCD TVs are marching downward as electronics prices are apt to do, and now Sharp [TYO:6753] is helping push things along with three new value-oriented sets. The 1080p LCDs will come in 52, 46 and 42-inch incarnations, ...READ»

TECHNOLOGY + COMPUTERS   |  1 comment

The Call of the Mall


Relevancy Score: 56
Mon Jun 14, 2004 at 6:36 PM

Dell said today in a conference call that it is planning a significant expansion of its retail sales kiosks. By the end of the year, the company plans to open 20 more kiosks--bringing the total to 85--to give consumers a chance to ...READ»

TECHNOLOGY + COMPUTERS   |  13 comments

How High-Def is High Enough?

BY Kevin Ohannessian
Relevancy Score: 54
Wed Oct 4, 2006 at 3:21 PM

It was just another fun story on Engadget. Yet it bothered me. Why should the fact that Sharp has a prototype LCD with 4x the resolution of current HDTVs bother me? It seems to me that companies are getting pulled into "The Next Big ...READ»

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PLASMA   |  1 comment

Samsung Does the Impossible: Creates 'Finger Slim' and Energy-Efficient Plasma TV

BY Ariel Schwartz
Relevancy Score: 51
Mon May 4, 2009 at 3:48 PM

Samsung announced this weekend that it plans to do what was once considered impossible: Manufacture an energy-efficient plasma TV. The company's HD 850 PDP "Finger Slim" is only 29 millimeters thick--just 1.15 inches from ...READ»

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JVC Introduces Super-Slim LCD TVs

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 50
Wed Jun 25, 2008 at 3:27 PM

Earlier this year, TV aficionados were greeted with rumors that JVC [NYSE:MC] had figured out a way to make super-slim HDTVs, and this week the company made good on those whispers. The first two LCDs to get the slim treatment are ...READ»

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LG Announces LED-Lit LCD

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 50
Sat Aug 2, 2008 at 10:07 AM

A couple of weeks back, I blogged about Samsung's [SEO:005930] gorgeous Series 9 LCDs. Those sets featured a trio of killer features -- the now-popular 120Hz refresh rate for smooth on-screen action, a powerful and even LED ...READ»

INNOVATION   |  Comment

Samsung Announces World's First 82-inch Multi-touch LCD

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 50
Wed May 21, 2008 at 1:11 PM

This week Samsung will announce the world's largest LCD television, coming in at 82 inches, with a resolution of 3,840 by 2,160 pixels at a 120Hz refresh rate (known as a “2160p” rating). This level of clarity qualifies it as an ...READ»

CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION   |  Comment

Samsung Announces World's First 82-inch Multi-touch LCD

BY Fast Company staff
Relevancy Score: 50
Wed May 28, 2008 at 3:10 PM

This week Samsung will announce the world's largest LCD television, coming in at 82 inches, with a resolution of 3,840 by 2,160 pixels at a 120Hz refresh rate (known as a “2160p” rating). This level of clarity qualifies it as an ...READ»

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Netflix to Stream Movies Directly to Sony's Bravia TVs

BY Clay Dillow
Relevancy Score: 47
Thu Jul 9, 2009 at 11:50 AM

The gap between the Web and television just narrowed a bit further. Starting this fall, Netflix users will be able to stream movies directly from the site to Sony Bravia Internet-enabled televisions. bringing Netflix's 12,000-title ...READ»

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Worried About the Economy? Samsung says Buy a TV

BY Abha Bhattarai
Relevancy Score: 47
Thu Apr 2, 2009 at 2:07 PM

The president of Samsung’s consumer electronics division has a curious recipe for getting through the recession: buy a TV. It costs less than a beach vacation, he says, and with Samsung’s new line of LCD HDTVs that use ...READ»

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Panasonic Releasing 37-Inch OLED TV Within Two Years

BY Ariel Schwartz
Relevancy Score: 46
Wed Apr 29, 2009 at 3:23 PM

OLED TVs are undoubtedly the future of TV technology--they're thin, contain minimal parts, and use up to 50% less energy than LCD TVs (and significantly less than plasma, which uses as much energy as a large refrigerator). The only ...READ»

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Samsung Announces New LED LCD TVs

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 45
Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 6:55 PM

LED-lit HDTVs aren't new -- Samsung [SEO:005930] itself had one in production this past year -- but the company's second generation sets are nothing short of breathtaking in picture quality. The old LED TVs (dubbed the 81 Series) ...READ»

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Is Toshiba's $11K Turbo TV the Media Hub of the Future?

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 43
Mon Oct 5, 2009 at 12:45 PM

Today Toshiba announced an ultra-powerful LCD TV powered by the same chip as the Sony PS3. It's backed by a 3 TB hard disk, and can play and record up to eight different television channels at once. It'll also cost 1 million yen ...READ»

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Should You Buy Or Wait on the Apple TV?

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 41
Mon Sep 14, 2009 at 9:32 AM

Apple dropped the price of the 160GB Apple TV by 30%--is this the time to buy or is it better to wait for the long-rumored refresh?READ»

TECHNOLOGY + COMPUTERS   |  3 comments

Digital Dominance

BY Kevin Ohannessian
Relevancy Score: 41
Fri Jan 20, 2006 at 12:49 PM

Panasonic will no longer be making analog televisions, not particularly surprising since technology and media have been steadily converting to digital for a few years now. All of the major manufacturers are concentrating on the ...READ»

SAMSUNG   |  Comment

Samsung UN55B7000 Television - Unearthing The Facts

BY Stuart Whittle
Relevancy Score: 39
Mon Nov 16, 2009 at 10:49 AM

Samsung UN55B7000's LED Hdtv line-up possesses extreme vibrant contrast ratios, on account of the new LED light source. It also combines some pioneering traits to ease the movement blur and vision judder, which often plague LCD High ...READ»

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Asus Exhibits Yet Another Eee Product: LCD TV

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 38
Thu Jun 5, 2008 at 8:03 PM

The "Eee" moniker was never a great one, but now Asus [TPE: 2357] seems to be applying it beyond its logical limits with something new they quietly brought to Computex 2008: a widescreen LCD television. Sure enough, Engadget ...READ»

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WIRELESS HD   |  Comment

Wi-Fi N and WHDI Battle for Wireless HDTV Across Your Home

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 36
Wed Apr 29, 2009 at 9:27 AM

Today semiconductor Amimon announced its new WHDI 2.0 chipset, that will enable compatible hardware to transmit 1080p video 100 feet around your home. At the same time, research by In-Stat suggests that the technology will be beaten ...READ»

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A Real Samsung UN55B8000 Evaluation

BY Jack Rower
Relevancy Score: 35
Tue Nov 17, 2009 at 4:56 AM

My new UN55B8000 is most probably one of the slimmest and lightest HDTV's yet. At just 1.2 inches deep and weighing only 50 pounds, this 55-incher was a dream to get fitted. Being an energy-mindful person, I was happy to recognize ...READ»

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