Friday, August 29, 2008 - 3:53am
When I was a kid, my Mother would warn me about the dangers of mixing electricity and water, so a bathtub where you lie in water while watching an LCD TV seems like something Mom would have a problem...
LCD stories
Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 7:47am
There’s a battle of TV thinness going on right now at the world’s largest consumer electronics show, across the pond at IFA in Berlin, where manufacturers continue the war started last January at CES. The idea is, these are...
Friday, August 22, 2008 - 1:27pm
Samsung gave Olympic fans an alternative way to see the games in Beijing: with their very own monitor, enclosed in a periscope-like apparatus. Details are scarce, but the picture says enough. If you saw one of these weird fixtures,...
Wednesday, August 20, 2008 - 2:37pm
Sony has a new version of its PlayStation Portable coming out, called the PSP-3000. If you were hoping for any major changes — such as a redesigned button layout for a more comfortable grip or even more power than...
Monday, July 21, 2008 - 10:20am
LCD screens have their plusses — they're cheap; don't consume as much power as, say, plasma displays; and look totally sleek and hot — but their weaknesses are just as plentiful: They have difficulty displaying true blacks. Their pixel refresh...
Friday, June 6, 2008 - 5:26am
As any HDTV aficionado knows, plasma sets have better contrast than LCDs. Sony's most recent crop of Bravia LCD sets is challenging that notion thanks to LED backlighting with local dimming. The new tech means the light behind the crystals...
Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - 6:13am
A standout among Westinghouse's latest line of LCD TVs is this 1080p-resolution 40-incher, the VK-40F580D. Why? See that little slit under the screen? That's for DVDs — the TV has a slot-loading disc player right up front, something you...
Thursday, May 8, 2008 - 3:28pm
Plasma or LCD? There are other kinds of TVs out there, of course, from near-deceased CRT to rear projection, and the new but still tiny OLED format. But if you go to any electronics store today to buy a...
Tuesday, April 1, 2008 - 9:11am
Every time I think TV technology has peaked, some manufacturer shows off a screen that makes my eyes go "Wow!" Yesterday it was Dolby and SIM2 who played that role, showing off their LED Dynamic Backlight technology, which gives...
Thursday, March 13, 2008 - 8:18am
The sudden popularity of digital photo frames has turned them into love-it-or-hate-it devices. The dichotomy goes like this: Tech-savvy folks tend to dislike them (sometimes intensely), while most others are fascinated by the technology, if statistics are to be...
