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lg philips show off a flexible color screen

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LG.Philips LCD Flexible Display

This week, LG.Philips LCD showed off a breakthrough in flexible displays when they announced the successful creation of an A4 (14.1-inch) color E-paper display.

The display is the largest full color (4096 colors) flexible display to date, and is visible from a full 180-degree viewing angle…

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May 14th, 2007 post a comment stumble it! author: technabob

lg chocolate j10hd home theater system

home entertainment | media players

LG J10HD Home Theater System

This new media center from LG is being sold under the “Chocolate” moniker which has become synonymous with “sleek, modern design.”

The new LG J10HD system is a full-featured home entertainment system complete with DVD player, 2.1 channel sound and an onboard 80GB hard drive for media storage…

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March 14th, 2007 post a comment stumble it! author: technabob

lg home theater claims 10.1 surround sound

home entertainment

LG HT752TP Home Theater System

LG is showing off their new HT752TP “flat home theater” system which claims the unique distinction of producing “10.1″ virtual surround sound.

The system simulates additional channels in between its standard 5 speaker surround setup, to produce the illusion of 10 individual speaker locations…

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March 12th, 2007 3 comments stumble it! author: technabob

47-inch lg lcd set to get mega contrast ratio

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LG LCD 47-inch LED Display

LCD sets just keep getting better and better these days. LG upped the ante today by showing off a new 47-inch screen loaded with features that could put LCD ahead of plasma in picture quality once and for all.

The new display features LED backlighting with what’s being called “local dimming”…

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February 5th, 2007 post a comment stumble it! author: technabob

hd dvd / blu-ray combo players to be the norm

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HD DVD vs. Blu-Ray Format War

According to a recent report from ABI Research, the HD DVD vs. Blu-Ray format war will be won not by either format, but by dual-format players, such as the recently released LG BH100 combo player…

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January 24th, 2007 1 comment stumble it! author: technabob

lg ke850 mobile phone: the iphone junior?

gadgets | media players | mobile tech

LG KE850 Mobile Phone

While many of us were pretty wowed by the industrial design and user interface of Apple’s forthcoming iPhone, but with a bunch of other internet-media-smartphones out there, is it really all that unique?
LG would like us to think that Apple’s beauty really isn’t all that different…

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January 14th, 2007 1 comment stumble it! author: technabob

lg shows off bh100 hd dvd / blu-ray combo player

home entertainment

LG Blu-ray HD DVD player

A couple of days ago, we reported that LG was planning on releasing a disc player that can handle both Blu-ray and HD DVD formats. Details of the player were announced today, so here goes:

The LG BH100 Super Multi Blue Player will handle both high definition disc formats, in full 1080p resolution, as well as offering DTS-HD audio support…

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January 7th, 2007 post a comment stumble it! author: technabob

lg and warner seek to end the blu-ray/hd dvd war

home entertainment

Blu-ray vs HD DVD

A while back we reported that Ricoh was working on a optical mechanism that could handle both Blu-ray and HD DVD discs. At next week’s CES show, it’s expected that two companies will be showing off their proposed solutions to dealing with the incompatible formats.

On the hardware front, LG is expected to announce a combo player that can play both formats…

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January 4th, 2007 1 comment stumble it! author: technabob

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