HDTV Sets
The three major categories of wide screen high-definition TV sets are CRTs, flat panels and rear projection units. Wide screen CRTs have almost become extinct due to lower prices in the other two categories.
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- Every year, retailers' ads for Black Fridaythe day after Thanksgiving and the unofficial starting of the holiday shopping seasonmanage to leak out a few weeks beforehand this year being no exception. And every year, said retailers freak out when the ads appear online, perhaps fearing that competitors could...
- Blog posts 2009-11-04
- Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Top Five HDTVs
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- Blog posts 2009-11-01
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- Blog posts 2009-10-31
- Is HDTV turning Americans into hockey fans?
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- Discussion threads 2009-10-27
- Vizio VF551XVT
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- Product reviews 2009-10-23
- 3D HDTV without glasses? Hitachi has a prototype display for that.
- If we're going to have to put up with 3D being the next big thing in HDTVs, the least we can hope for is that we're not stuck wearing those plastic glasses on our sofas for the next 50 years. While that's exactly what Panasonic and other 3D proponents are...
- Blog posts 2009-10-18
- Sharp LC-52LE700UN
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- Product reviews 2009-10-16
- Sharp LC-40LE700UN
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- Product reviews 2009-10-16
- Sharp LC-46LE700UN
- Photo gallery: Sharp LC-LE700UN seriesLCD TV makers have always charged a premium for LED backlighting. In fact, the first LED-based LCD TV Sharp released, the inch-thick XS series, debuted last year at a cool $11,000 MSRP for the 52-inch model. LED has become a lot more mainstream since...
- Product reviews 2009-10-16
- News to know: Google, IBM; AMD; Apple
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Earnings wrap: Sam Diaz: Schmidt: Worst of recession is over; Google is hiring Larry Dignan: IBM...
- Blog posts 2009-10-16
- HP revamps TouchSmart PCs with Windows 7; starts $899; will you ditch your desktop PC, HDTV?
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- Discussion threads 2009-10-13
- "HDTV" experiment proves believing is seeing
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- Blog posts 2009-10-11
- News to know: AT&T; Apple; Google; Verizon; Microsoft
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Dancho Danchev: Weak passwords dominate statistics for Hotmail's phishing scheme leak Larry Dignan: The Android army: Verizon Wireless, Google...
- Blog posts 2009-10-07
- Samsung UN46B8500
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- Product reviews 2009-10-06
- Samsung UN55B8500
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- Product reviews 2009-10-06
- Toshiba Cell Regza 55X1: The HDTV of the future?
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- Blog posts 2009-10-06
- Consumers only want 3D HDTVs, Blu-ray players if they don't cost extra
- Market research firm In-Stat has just conducted a survey that should prove sobering to the TV manufacturers and movie studios that are in a hurry to put 3D HDTVs into our homes. Not only are consumers lukewarm to the idea of 3D content, but they're also unwilling to pay much...
- Blog posts 2009-10-04
- Asus, QNAP release new 1080p HD media streamers
- Home theaters are still waiting for the killer device that will run away with the market for streaming media to your HDTV. How do we know? More and more companies are jumping into the "network media player" gamea dominant device (whether a networked TV or super...
- Blog posts 2009-10-01
- HDTVs sales back on the rise, but smaller, cheaper sets may dominate
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- Blog posts 2009-09-29
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- Discussion threads 2009-09-27







