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Synchronized at CES: Panasonic’s Eight 103-inch Plasma HDTVs

While strolling through the pre-birth of the CES machine, we happened upon the most amazing thing ever: No less than eight of Panasonic’s 103-inch Plasma HDTVs set on a stage, with independent, but synced 1080p content on each. And they were on pivoting mounts, that rotated to the content of an attractive couple dancing provocatively.…

Television Brian Lam

Wired Science Show Tonight: Lady Takes a Circular Saw to a Plasma

Wired Mag’s Science and Tech Show premiers tonight, and in one segment, a hostess takes a powertool to a fresh plasma set, before explaining how it works…worked. Ouch. She could have just asked. The rest of the pilot includes segments on an undersea NASA training facility, meteorite hunters, and jetpacks. You can watch the pilot…

Television Brian Lam

A Man 32-Years Removed from Television Buys First HDTV, Tells Tale

I stumbled upon this story from last week in the New York Times. It is a first-person account of buying an HDTV. This is a bit different than the regular buying an HDTV story, because the man, William Hamilton, has spent most of his adult life without television. He bought a 40-inch Sony Bravia XBR…

Television Travis Hudson

Win Wil Wheaton’s $5,000 Home Entertainment System

If you had $5,000, what kind of home entertainment system would you build? Revision3 and Dolby are giving five grand each to Jessica Corbin, Hahn Choi, and Wil Wheaton and asking them to build “the best possible home entertainment systems”. If you enter at Revision3, you have the possibility to win them after Dolby’s done…

Television Jason Chen

Japanese Livingroom Diorama with Working 1.5-Inch TV

You probably saw that cool video of the Wii playing on a 1.5-inch TV. Here’s the set, which you can only buy in Japan, unfortunately. https://gizmodo.com/wii-on-a-1-5-inch-tv-219936 The livingroom is of the Showa era, which starts in 1926 and ends in 1989, as defined by the life of the Emperor Hirohito. (Thanks Wikipedia, history lesson over)…

Television Brian Lam

Laptop Goes from Junker to Celebrity, Thanks to Ebay

So, a buddy of mine had this junker HP ze5400 Laptop. I don’t have any clue why he bought it to begin with, but the keyboard crapped out on him so he did what any reasonable geek did, and scrapped the good parts and sold the rest on Ebay. The guy who finally won the…

Television Travis Hudson

CES 2007: Philips LCD TV Finally hits 1080p HD

Where have you been all my life? Ambilight TVs are awesome for that amazing halo that flows around the edges of the screen. It’s partly why Philips is one of the major LCD sellers in the US, and why I adore them so much. Of course, that glow wouldn’t mean nothing without a solid screen,…

Television Brian Lam

NYT: Hannspree TV Knocks Off Eames Chair

Roy Furchgott, has an eye for design. He writes an insightful piece in the NYTimes about Korean electronic maker Hannspree, and their latest design triumph: An LCD TV that looks great from the backside. Delicious, and useful for times when a TV doesn’t sit against a wall. In fact, he points out it looks like…

Television Brian Lam

Sony LocationFree Gets Delayed

Wow, Sony. Two delays in one day. Things must be getting bad. Our buddy, Zatz, points out that Sony’s Slingbox competitor, the LocationFree, is getting delayed and no new release date has been announced. This device was originally slated for a release next week, but pushed back because of remote problems. https://gizmodo.com/sony-locationfree-tv-lf-b20-a-wireless-place-shifter-198507 Is it back…

Television Travis Hudson

First PS3 TV Ad Debuts, Is Really Weird

The first TV ad for the PS3—"The Wait"—is now floating around that damnable Internet and we’ve really got to hand it to Sony: not only does the ad not tell us a single thing about their upcoming system, but they’ve somehow managed to create an ad that evokes the same type of feeling you get…

Television Nicholas Deleon

Sharp’s SH903iTV Cellphone/TV Hybrid

Sharp takes us ever closer to a proper cellphone/TV hybrid with the SH903iTV, a clamshell that will be a part of Japans’s NTTDoCoMo’s lineup in the near future. By far, the biggest “gee golly” feature is the 3-inch widescreen display that has a resolution of 204×400 pixels and appears to have been integrated quite nicely…

Television Nicholas Deleon

LCDs Vs Plasmas: Brightness Ain’t a Thing

Gizmodo friend and Yoda of Electronics, Sean Captain, wrote an article in the NY Times about how goddamn confusing it is for your mom to figure out what flat TV tech to buy. It’s because LCDs are on a rocketship trajectory moving past their shortcomings, like size and contrast. And Plasmas don’t burn in, and…

Television Brian Lam

Philips 100-inch LCD TV Glows With Ambilight

Philips is showing off this magnificent 100-inch LCD TV at IFA in Berlin, making it the third over-100-inch TV that we’ve seen, behind the 100-inch LG LCD, and the Panasonic Plasma. (That’s not counting the jumbotron-type stadium sets.) We loved the most recent Ambilight LCD we looked at, and this 100-inch version, based on all…

Television Brian Lam

SOLD: First 103-Inch Plasma, to NBC Meatheads

Geeks, we lost. It reminds me of wedgies and having lunchroom meatloaf dumped on my head, but the first two Panasonic 103-inch plasmas were just sold to NBC for use on the set of Football Night in America. No, the first thing to run on these TVs won’t be Xbox. The set, with a fully…

Television Brian Lam

CBS to use Bluetooth Billboards to Promote Fall Shows

CBS will be loading up Grand Central Terminal train station in NYC with Bluetooth enabled billboards to promote their fall lineup. The billboards will beam video clips of five of their primetime shows to Bluetooth enabled cellphones, smartphones and PDAs. They will offer clips from the shows Shark, Smith, Jericho, The Class and CSI. Each…

Television Travis Hudson

Proton Brings 47, 42-inch Purity LCDs to North America

These beauties will be on display at TvTvst in September. They mark Proton’s return to the North American market. Proton is known for having some of the thinnest, best looking LCDs televisions out there and these are no different. The two models come loaded up with component inputs (two sets for the 47-inch model), 16:9…

Television Travis Hudson

LG LCD: 2D or 3D

We only know what we can see, and that’s 3D – on a 2D screen in no way intended to view 3D. LG just demoed their prototype 42-inch HD LCD with switchable 2D/3D viewing at IMID (the annual display party that is turning out to be pretty cool this year). That’s all we know. Check…

Television Mark Wilson

Dealzmodo Supplemental: 37-inch LCD TV for $899

This may be an Emprex, but it’s still a 37-inch LCD TV. It’s got HDMI, 1080p (!), 8ms response, and a 170 degree viewing angle. C’mon, $899! EMPREX HD-3701 37” HD LCD TV [Outpost – Thanks Michael!]

Television Jason Chen

Philips 42PF9831D/37 TV: Hands All Over the 42-inch LCD with Ambilight PLUS Giggling

I just got my hands on a 42-inch Ambilight LCD TV from Philips. Ambilight, if you didn’t know, is a system that shines light out of the sides of a TV set. The resulting halo reduces eyestrain, and makes the set feel like it’s bigger than it really is. In a dark room, the effect…

Television Brian Lam

Hauppage TV Anywhere: Poor Man’s Slingbox

Hauppage TV Anywhere is bundling already-free software from Orb Networks with its WinTV box to let you record shows on your PC and then stream them to you wherever you’re able to access the Interwebs. The WinTV box snags those over-the-air video signals and records them on your PC via USB 2.0, and then the…

Television Charlie White

Synchronized at CES: Panasonic’s Eight 103-inch Plasma HDTVs

Wired Science Show Tonight: Lady Takes a Circular Saw to a Plasma

A Man 32-Years Removed from Television Buys First HDTV, Tells Tale

Win Wil Wheaton’s $5,000 Home Entertainment System

Japanese Livingroom Diorama with Working 1.5-Inch TV

Laptop Goes from Junker to Celebrity, Thanks to Ebay

CES 2007: Philips LCD TV Finally hits 1080p HD

NYT: Hannspree TV Knocks Off Eames Chair

Sony LocationFree Gets Delayed

First PS3 TV Ad Debuts, Is Really Weird

Sharp’s SH903iTV Cellphone/TV Hybrid

LCDs Vs Plasmas: Brightness Ain’t a Thing

Philips 100-inch LCD TV Glows With Ambilight

SOLD: First 103-Inch Plasma, to NBC Meatheads

CBS to use Bluetooth Billboards to Promote Fall Shows

Proton Brings 47, 42-inch Purity LCDs to North America

LG LCD: 2D or 3D

Dealzmodo Supplemental: 37-inch LCD TV for $899

Philips 42PF9831D/37 TV: Hands All Over the 42-inch LCD with Ambilight PLUS Giggling

Hauppage TV Anywhere: Poor Man’s Slingbox

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