If you are a consumer electronics maker looking for profit in a time when would-be customers are counting their pennies, what do you do? One tactic: launch a new line of pricey products.
Three-dimensional TV is coming to a living room near you. But will the technology spur a consumer spending spree like digital and high-definition TV did before it? Or will 3D end up being the next big flop?
LG Electronics said Monday it will market a high-definition television set that will instantly stream movies from the video rental service Netflix.
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Television as we know is about to change drastically in the U.S. in February when broadcasters switch solely to transmitting digital signals. And even though there are many benefits to this transition, there are also a few downsides.
When Hitachi first announced the U.S. availability of its superslim monitors at CES last January, they were the slimmest flat-panel LCDs yet at 1.5 inches thick.
At CNET when we review one size DTV in the same series we often don't review another, but we're making an exception in the case of the LG 60PG60.
Help the economy: buy a sweet $7,000 HDTV. (Then charge admission)
Coming from a company known more for its plasma HDTVs, the Panasonic TC-32LX85 is a pleasant surprise in the 32-inch LCD category.
After losing out in the battle to define the high-definition successor of the DVD, Toshiba Corp. has turned its attention to the next best thing: the DVD
If you are a consumer electronics maker looking for profit in a time when would-be customers are counting their pennies, what do you do? One tactic: launch a new line of pricey products.
Three-dimensional TV is coming to a living room near you. But will the technology spur a consumer spending spree like digital and high-definition TV did before it? Or will 3D end up being the next big flop?
LG Electronics said Monday it will market a high-definition television set that will instantly stream movies from the video rental service Netflix.
Our Houston-based film production boutique, Zenfilm, specializes in advertising, music videos, documentaries, web video, and media strategy. As a husband-and-wife director-producer team, we have been making motion pictures together for almost 20 years.
Television as we know is about to change drastically in the U.S. in February when broadcasters switch solely to transmitting digital signals. And even though there are many benefits to this transition, there are also a few downsides.
When Hitachi first announced the U.S. availability of its superslim monitors at CES last January, they were the slimmest flat-panel LCDs yet at 1.5 inches thick.
At CNET when we review one size DTV in the same series we often don't review another, but we're making an exception in the case of the LG 60PG60.
Help the economy: buy a sweet $7,000 HDTV. (Then charge admission)
Coming from a company known more for its plasma HDTVs, the Panasonic TC-32LX85 is a pleasant surprise in the 32-inch LCD category.
After losing out in the battle to define the high-definition successor of the DVD, Toshiba Corp. has turned its attention to the next best thing: the DVD
Corning's guesswork fails to keep people confident about its glassworks.
As Sony and Samsung continue to battle for LCD supremacy, Sony is trickling down previously premium features to its less expensive models.
Sony has always been a go-to brand for people who don't mind paying more for HDTVs, or just about anything else for that matter, and the company's least-expensive 2008 32-inch HDTV, the KDL-32M4000, exemplifies the trend.
The Best Buy house brand Insignia can be found on some of the cheapest, er, least-expensive HDTVs available anywhere, and judging from the company's terrible NS-PDP42 plasma, you might be tempted to write these sets off entirely.
Plasma HDTVs seem almost passe these days, but in our experience they still produce generally better images than LCDs. The mid-price 50-inch Samsung PN50A550 reviewed here provides a typical example of what plasma can do right.
Vizio and Westinghouse have become relatively well-known brands among the hundreds of flat-panel LCD makers most people haven't heard of, and Olevia also deserves credit for establishing its name as well.
Stephanie Grosser says her husband thinks he will buy a plasma TV with the rebate check they may soon collect from the federal government. "He is wrong," Grosser reveals. Instead, that money will go toward paying off student loans.
Even though the sun was hours away from rising, bargain-hunters at a Wal-Mart store in Union were fully awake and ready to shop.
Worried retailers and mall operators breathed a sigh of relief after the 2007 holiday shopping marathon off to a robust start Friday.
Neither high gas prices nor falling home values deterred customers from lining up and plunking down cash at Manhattan electronics stores Friday, and deep price cuts helped big ticket items go fast.
Among that tiny segment of the population that cares about the latest HDTV technology, and the even tinier segment that can afford it, the introduction of Samsung's 81 series of flat-panel LCDs is kind of like early Christmas. The first widely distributed LCD HDTVs to incorporate LED backlights -- Sony sold a few Qualia 005s a couple years ago at $8,000 to $15,000 a pop -- the Samsungs promise amazing black levels, claiming a contrast ratio spec of 500,000:1.
Target this year is setting juicy Black Friday deals on high-definition televisions, digital cameras, videogame consoles and toys, according to a Web site that says it has received a leaked copy of the retailer's circular.
Sony displayed Monday the first television for the commercial market with an organic light-emitting diode display it said symbolized the revival of the faltering Japanese electronics maker.
As Best Buy gears up for its important high-definition TV sales months, a new survey from the No. 1 electronics retailer reveals that almost 90 percent of Americans still don't understand HDTVs - and close to 50 percent underestimate the cost of buying one.
Japanese electronics makers Sharp Corp. and Pioneer Corp. announced a capital and operations tie-up Thursday that will make Sharp the top shareholder in its Tokyo-based peer.
As second kahuna in the no-name HDTV surfing contest after big-wave Vizio, Westinghouse always seems to have something to prove. The 47-inch TX-47F430S LCD rides hard with an extralong board's worth of features, including four HDMI inputs, 1080p native resolution for a relative pittance, oodles of picture settings, and a great selection of power-affecting modes.
Sony Corp. has no plans to cut the price of its PlayStation 3 (PS3) at present to increase demand and counter surging sales of Nintendo's rival game console Wii, Sony's president said Friday.
Circuit City on Wednesday reported a steep first-quarter loss amid a big drop in TV sales and warned that it expects more sales volatility ahead as it charts a turnaround strategy.
Sony's 2007 Bravia home theater in a box (HTIB) systems represent something of a departure from the company's popular Dream systems.
Vizio's VX32L HDTV may not be the least-expensive 32-inch flat-panel LCD on the market, but it's still quite affordable.
You've been waiting for the high sign for years, so here it is: If you want to buy a flat-panel TV, now's the time to do it. Thanks to competition and overproduction, prices have dropped like a roc...
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The annual trade show known as Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies (CEATEC), under way here this week, is the Japanese equivalent of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), except about two years more advanced. We've come here, along with some 200,000 gadget-happy Japanese consumers, to see what American consumers might expect to see at home in 2008.
Canon is betting billions that a new technology called surface-conduction electron-emitter display, or SED, will enable the company to muscle into the flat-screen-TV market. SED technology, developed in conjunction with Toshiba, yields images of superior quality to liquid-crystal or plasma screens while consuming far less power.
HERE'S CAUSE FOR HOLIDAY CHEER: PRICES FOR FLAT-PANEL TVs and computers have been falling like snowflakes. (If it seems to you as if prices are drifting up, perhaps it's because the elves have been...
An 800-seat hall in Tokyo's New Otani hotel is packed with international journalists. Onstage, two white panels pull back to reveal a 65-inch liquid crystal display (LCD) television, the world's la...
LAPTOPS: They're priced to move. Every year, major retailers cut exclusive holiday deals with computer makers. This time, look for big discounts on mid-priced laptops (down to about $800, from $1,1...
Visit an electronics superstore these days and you can't help but notice the phrase "high-definition television," or HDTV, everywhere you turn. But if you're like most Americans, you still aren't e...
High definition isn't one technology—it's a matter of resolution, and there are many ways to get it. The trade-offs: Thin and light is costly. But if you don't need to hang your TV on a wall, HD ne...
Only a decade ago, Texas Instruments, the once mighty company where engineer Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit and essentially launched the modern electronics business, had the look of a f...
When it comes to thin screens, you can have too much of a good thing. No one knows that better than the LCD industry. Last year, anticipating a rush to upgrade the family TV, Samsung, LG Philips, a...
Michael Jordan was at the top of his game--basketball, that is--when he decided that baseball would be a logical extension of his athletic skills. But Jordan struck out, never reaching the big leag...
Why pay more? It's not that we aren't willing to splurge on certain things for our homes. We just want to get our money's worth. In other words, we don't just want stuff--we want the right stuff.
You just gotta have one of those big-screen TVs. We understand. As with sports cars and designer handbags, the lure of luxury can turn the most prudent shopper into a slobbering impulse buyer.
If the wall of your den cries out for a big, beautiful flat-screen TV, but there's no way you can justify forking over the $4,000 it would cost to buy, say, the 42-inch Samsung shown above, stay tu...
Ted Waitt, the founder and chairman and CEO of Gateway, is sick and tired of the PC business. I can't say I blame him. Consolidation, commoditization, razor-thin margins, persistent price wars, rel...
Like many members of my species--Couchpotatosaurus rex--I am attracted to big-screen TVs. In an ideal world I would park my recliner in front of something like the 24-by 32-foot AstroVision video d...
Ah, the good old days. A slice of pizza was a nickel, a movie was a quarter, and the trickiest decision when choosing a television set was whether to get color or black and white. I typically don't...
HDTV is finally ready for its closeup. In the past three years, prices of high-definition sets have tumbled 50%, and the quality has improved vastly. And just as important, the amount of high-defin...
HDTV is finally ready for its closeup. In the past three years, prices of high-definition sets have tumbled 50 percent, and the quality has improved vastly. And just as important, the amount of high-definition programming available has been growing steadily.
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