We love big TVs as much as the next person, but there just has to be a point where big is too big. Is 65-inches too big? That’s probably a personal taste thing, and while we’re sure that there’s plenty of people out there that would love to have this new set introduced today at CEDIA by Samsung, we can guess there’s one huge obstacle you’ll have to climb before you can have one of these bad boys.
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On Sunday, LG announced that they are going ahead and releasing their previously planned 15-inch AMOLED television, and sooner than we could have hoped. If September wasn't big enough already, LG wants to wiggle in and make sure that you get to watch "your Zune HD" via a great looking, and brilliant display. But, are our wallets ready for another OLED tv? If LG can officially ship this thing, then we'd like to hope so.
Sony is known to get overly excited about their products, but that shouldn’t be surprising. If you can’t be excited about your own products, you probably shouldn’t waste the consumer’s time. But when it comes to their projections for their OLED televisions, executives may have been a bit over their head when they projected the future sets would be symbols of the company’s technological comeback. A recent report says that Sony is setting the plans for a 2010 launch, and that may be exactly what they need.
This was an interesting assignment. SlashGear has received some FyreTV BoXXXes (Yes, three X’s) and absolutely must review them. Oh the terrible, terrible things this job makes me do. Explanation and video after the jump.
FEARnet is a well-known on-demand channel that offers up all sorts of edge of your seat programming in the horror, thriller and suspense genres, but the channel has recently been pulled from Time Warner Cable and Bright House Cable.
Philips may be out of the TV Game in North America, but they’re busy finding new and crazy ways to manipulate OLED’s into awesomes designs and shapes. The experiments by Philips demonstrates the wide application of OLED’s and possibilities for future products. Given their lightweight and thin nature, OLED’s are capable of being utilized in many different ways, not just televisions.
Looking for a home security device but don’t want to spend a bundle on an alarm system, cameras or guards? The Home Security Television Simulator might be just what you need to secure your home on the cheap.
You’ve probably heard about the looming switch from analog television signals to all-digital signals. At the end of the broadcast day on February 17, televison stations will stop broadcasting their analog signals. Or will they? Barack Obama is calling for an extension to the February 17 deadline. More after the jump.
TiVo rolled out a rather interesting aspect to their advertising plan today. In fact, it involves including ads on the Pause Menu. Yes, now even when your show is paused, you will still be bombarded with advertising.
This new advertising will allow people to buy text spots that will be displayed whenever a user pauses live TV or a timeshifted program. The ads are set up to show up during particular shows or when a show possesses a particular keyword in its description.
TiVo says they had to do this, since everyone is fast forwarding through standard commercials these days. I guess they had to get those ads seen somehow. TiVo isn’t exactly jumping head first into this pause commercial stuff though. In fact, it is only being rolled out on the Series 2 TiVo boxes for now. There’s no word on when they’ll be implemented on the newer Series 3 models.
We’re live in Milan today, covering Sony’s latest announcement. In fact, Sony showed off a brand new marketing campaign today that’s intended to demonstrate their latest technology behind their BRAVIA televisions. The tech is called Motionflow 240Hz and in order to show off what the latest in motion picture technology is capable of, Sony resorted to the oldest method of creating motion pictures: the zoetrope.
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