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Klegg Electronics, known for their home audio gear has unveiled a series of Internet-enabled flat panel televisions in their “Genesis” product line. The new displays come in 40-inch and 46-inch LCD versions, and feature Windows XP (hopefully MCE) embedded chip that enables web surfing, e-mail and digital media file access.…
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January 16th, 2007 by: Technabob
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Earlier this week, Toshiba announced a variety of new models in their REGZA LCD television line for release throughout the Spring and Summer of 2007. Ranging in size from 42-inches to 57-inches, seven of the newly released models will feature full 1080p native resolution.
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January 12th, 2007 by: Technabob
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Looking for a plasma set, but want true 1080p resolution? Samsung has revealed their first 1080p plasma sets (“the 84 Series”) for release later this year. The Samsung HP-T5084 50-inch plasma television is scheduled for release this May for $4199. If you’re a bit more patient, the 58-inch version of…
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January 11th, 2007 by: Technabob
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At this week’s CES show, Sony showed off an OLED TV with that claims to have an unbelievable 1,000,000 to 1 contrast ratio. From the looks of the photo below, (taken by the folks over at Engadget,) the contrast does look pretty darned impressive:
The 27-inch prototype’s organic light emitting…
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January 8th, 2007 by: Technabob
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Electronics manufacturer Axion has announced the details of their new portable IP-based television, to be shown at next week’s CES show in Vegas.
The Axion AXN-8017 iPTV will feature a 7-inch widescreen LCD, along with hardware that will stream your home television, cable, satellite, DVR or VCR programming (…
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January 6th, 2007 by: Technabob
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Hot on the heels of the launch of Vizio’s sub-$2k 47-inch LCD, they’ve announced a huge new 60-inch plasma set that will retail for just $2999.
Scheduled to hit store shelves in February, the Vizio VM60P will feature a 60-inch diagonal panel running at WXGA resolution (1366×768). The display features…
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January 5th, 2007 by: Technabob
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A few months back, there were rumors on the street that Dell was going to release a 27-inch widescreen LCD monitor. Now it appears that these rumors may be true. An image was leaked on the Dell website showing the inputs for the heretofore unseen flat panel.
A Dell employee…
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January 3rd, 2007 by: Technabob
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LG Electronics has announced a new device that combines a widescreen LCD television with a full-fledged Windows PC.
The computer adds virtually no bulk to the flat panel display. The first system in LG’s TVPC lineup will come with an Intel Celeron 430 CPU, 160GB hard drive, 1GB of RAM…
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December 17th, 2006 by: Technabob
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Some guy has set up this tiny little room with a tiny little 1.5″ diagonal color TV, connected to a life-size Nintendo Wii and posted a YouTube video for all to see:
Why I find this amusing, I don’t know, but it is quite silly.
[via Digg]…
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December 6th, 2006 by: Technabob
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On November 22, the Xbox Live Marketplace will start offering movie and television downloads for the Xbox 360.
Microsoft has announced agreements with CBS, MTV Networks, Paramount Pictures, TBS, Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and Warner Brothers to offer an initial lineup of over 1,000 hours of TV shows and movies…
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November 7th, 2006 by: Technabob