3-D television was heralded as the breakthrough technology of the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show. Hot on the heels of James Cameron's eye-opening Avatar, 3-D HDTVs were everywhere on the show floor.
"The problem with innovation in the television market is the go-to-market strategy," Steve Jobs told Hillcrest Labs' Dan Simpkins at the D8 conference in 2010.
LCD TV prices will fall to their lowest levels of all time this Black Friday, as television manufacturers try to use bargains to revive struggling sales.
Apple might want to sell you your next TV.
While the picture quality on your TV has evolved over the years, the way you interact with your TV is still stuck in the Stone Age. That is, the remote control and channel guide still need some serious innovation.
Researchers from MIT's Media Lab demonstrate hands-free Web browsing using Kinect made for Microsoft's Xbox 360.
If you're a die-hard baseball or basketball fan, Steve Jobs just made your day.
If you're looking for a flat-screen TV deal, this week is a good time to buy -- but extreme bargain hunters may find even better deals next month.
TiVo, the pioneering digital video recorder, is beloved by couch potatoes for offering a simple way to record television shows for watching later.
If so-called "smart TVs" are so clever, why do we feel so dense when trying to compare them?
The tech-industry hype last year was that TV sets were becoming thinner than ever -- with some particularly anorexic models getting down to just millimeters in width.
The best of CES
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CNN's Dan Simon takes a look at some of the most popular items at this year's Consumer Electronics Show.
Ultra-low prices for flat screen LCD TVs are typical for Black Friday. But this year, the best deals are expected to come even later in the holiday season and into early 2011.
Black Friday bargain hunters beware. There's a good chance you won't score that doorbuster deal you've set your heart on.
Wal-Mart's highly awaited Black Friday ad promises hot deals on high-definition TVs, Blu-ray players, laptops and holiday gift favorites such as toys and DVDs, according to a copy of the retailer's circular obtained by CNNMoney.com on Saturday.
The new Apple TV could be Steve Jobs' best sleight-of-hand trick yet.
An historically large oversupply of LCD TV panels is causing television prices to fall right in time for the holiday shopping season.
With Wednesday's announcement that it will be revamping its web TV offerings, Apple has made its most serious push into an emerging, and increasingly crowded, field.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs announces redesign of all iPod models.
A reworked line of iPods and a new, drastically cheaper, version of Apple TV are on the way.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced a revamped Apple TV device, a new iPod line, an iTunes social network and updates to the operating system for the iPhone, iPod Touch and the iPad at Apple's highly anticipated product launch event on Wednesday.
For its next Apple TV, Apple may ditch the set-top box form factor and instead cram a media player into a tiny device running the iPhone OS, according to Engadget.
If you're in the market for a new flatscreen TV this holiday season, you're in luck.
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?
FSB: 2008: A TV Odysseyupdated: Thu Dec 11 2008 06:41:00
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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.
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.
As Sony and Samsung continue to battle for LCD supremacy, Sony is trickling down previously premium features to its less expensive models.
The announcement this week that Sony plans to work with other television makers to eliminate the need for set-top cable boxes could not have gained more affection at Fortune magazine's Hollywood digital test lab - also known as my living room.
If you're looking for a deal on a flat-panel TV or home theater system, this may be the time to act.
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.
While the MacBook Air was certainly the sex symbol of Steve Jobs's MacWorld keynote today, the product with the biggest impact may be the new Apple TV.
CNN's Jennifer Westhoven looks at what innovations Apple CEO Steve Jobs may introduce at MacWorld 2008.
Best Buy on Friday reported a modest increase of 1.5 percent in December sales after continuing declines in sales of MP3 players and projection TVs more than offset sales increases of flat-screen TVs.
CNN's Veronica De La Cruz is in Las Vegas for the International CES and talks to Jim Barry about the latest gadgets.
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.
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.
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.
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's 2007 Bravia home theater in a box (HTIB) systems represent something of a departure from the company's popular Dream systems.
Let's pause for a moment amid the worshipful buzz before the launch of Apple's iPhone in June to consider the heretical notion that Steve Jobs might be promising more than he can deliver.
It's all about the customer - and your employees.
Apple's answer to the digital media adapter is finally here.
Feel like a tech dinosaur? Here's how to join the 21st Century without going broke.
Vizio's VX32L HDTV may not be the least-expensive 32-inch flat-panel LCD on the market, but it's still quite affordable.
Super Bowl XLI is expected to generate a buying frenzy for high-definition, flat-panel televisions, with an estimated 2.5 million consumers saying they plan to purchase an HDTV before the big game Feb. 4, a retail industry group said Wednesday.
Kick yourself - hard - if you didn't buy that $990 Westinghouse 37-inch, 1080p LCD TV back in December. Unfortunately, industry watchers say this year's Super Bowl TV deals probably won't be as juicy as those holiday blowout bargains.
Money Magazine: The World is Flatupdated: Mon Jan 01 2007 00:01:00
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...
Plus: Answers to all your flat-panel questions
Shares of No. 2 electronics retailer Circuit City tumbled nearly 19 percent Tuesday after the electronics chain stunned investors with an unexpected third-quarter loss.
Best Buy Co. Tuesday reported higher third-quarter earnings that nevertheless fell short of Wall Street forecasts - and cited stiff competition for computers, TVs, CDs and other products.
While the clothing department and sporting goods sections were crowded at the Atlantic Terminal Mall's Target in Brooklyn, N.Y., early Friday, they didn't come close to the frenzy over in the area that's the perennial favorite for holiday shoppers: electronics.
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.
One day last July, two naked men lowered themselves into a hot spring in Hakone, a Japanese tourist town known for its beautiful lake and views of Mount Fuji. One was a pallid, curly-haired 63-year...
One day last July, two naked men lowered themselves into a hot spring in Hakone, a Japanese tourist town known for its beautiful lake and views of Mount Fuji.
2006 could be the year that style wins over economics to boost the fortunes of flagging home furnishing chains like Pier 1 Imports, Bombay Co. and other chains, according to one industry analyst.
While today's most popular TV and computer screens are flat, shares of Corning, which makes the glass for these products, are anything but.
Business 2.0: Passing The Screen Testupdated: Mon Aug 01 2005 00:01:00
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...
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Quick. Name this year's best performing tech stock in the S&P 500.
Of the thousands of new product designs that manufacturers sprang on the public this year, which ones qualify as truly great--and why? Check out FORTUNE's second annual design roundup, which focuse...
Money Magazine: Seeing the Light on HDTVupdated: Mon Nov 01 2004 00:01:00
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...
CNNMoney: I want my HDTV!updated: Tue Oct 05 2004 11:23:00
There is nothing like watching a football game on a humongous flat-screen TV.
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...
Stocking upupdated: Wed Jul 14 2004 15:26:00
It's amazing what buying a home does to you. There's the status change from renter to homeowner. I admit, I find it somewhat laughable, since the bank owns most of it, but let's not fight over a few pennies.
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...
Wireless TVs that fit into your pocket, sleek entertainment systems beautiful enough to hang on the wall and more dirt-cheap printers are expected to be some of the hot trends in consumer electronics this year.
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.
This is the TV that family rooms are built for. The new rear-projection TVs are nothing like their forebears, those old tavern staples that relied on three cathode-ray guns beaming blue, green and red to form images on the screen -- often so skewed that they produced rainbow effects.
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.
CNNMoney: Go go gadget phone!updated: Wed Apr 07 2004 13:06:00
Wall Street may be starting to worry about whether big businesses are going to substantially increase their spending on tech.
Since the invention of the PC, techies have taken two things for granted: Processor speeds will grow exponentially, and PCs will become indistinguishable from televisions--that there will be, in in...
Tech companies have seen the future...and its name is the boob tube.
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...
It's a sunny Southern California evening in mid-October at the posh South Coast Plaza shopping center in Orange County, and Sony Corp. is throwing a bash. Were you to pass by the roped-off event on...
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...
The off-the-rack gray suit, tie clip, company button, and metal-rimmed glasses mark Yoichi Morishita, chairman of Matsushita Electric, as a prototypical Japanese salaryman. Through patience, hard w...
If you are beginning to think that Japan has lost its flair for product innovation and global marketing, think again. No matter how far down Japan's economy may be, its R&D divisions and factories ...
I'm not much of a television fan (some evenings I do watch the news), but I'm delighted that TV is going digital. Not because of the larger screens it will bring, but because of the bigger picture:...
Does this sound familiar? You saw a movie in a theater and loved it, so now that it's out on video, you've invited friends over to see it in your living room. Everyone gets comfortable, you dim the...
When Microsoft CEO Bill Gates sat down with Reed Hundt, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, to chat about digital television last May, broadcasters and television manufacturers began...
WHEN color television burst upon the world in the early 1950s, the U.S. was in the vanguard: The first commercial broadcasts used a pioneering system developed by RCA. It was the end of the decade ...
THE FOUR weary Americans in the coffee shop of Tokyo's Hotel Okura had spent the day pounding the floors of a sprawling color-TV factory belonging to Matsushita Electric Industrial, the $26-billion...
ZENITH ELECTRONICS CORP. has learned some important lessons in the school of hard knocks. The question is, will it ever graduate? Bloodied by a long price war in the television business, the Glenvi...
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