By Sean P. Aune |
Just how thin is the new LG 55-inch OLED TV? Super freakin’ thin. LGs new 3D 55-inch OLED TV is not just thin (4 mm), but its light (16.5 lbs) and sports passive 3D technology as opposed to active. As TVs go, this is getting…
By Brandon Russell |
While Vizio further expands its reach into consumer homes with its new all-in-one PCs and laptops, the company is still sticking to what it does best: TVs. The Irvine-based company announced today a line of premium HDTVs that will truly attract avid cinephiles. Not content…
By Sean P. Aune |
We’ve seen the news break about Roku coming out with a new class of device that transforms the “streaming box” into a wee little HDMI dongle — one that doesn’t require a separate remote control (it can use the TV’s remote), but delivers all the…
By Killian Bell |
Samsung has unveiled its latest flagship Smart TV at CES in Las Vegas today called the Samsung ES8000 LED TV which the Korean company promises is “more than just a pretty face.” The ES8000 offers a dual-core processor that provides true multitasking and seamless switching…
By Brandon Russell |
Samsung just announced a 55-inch Super OLED TV from the future at its CES press conference. The TV boasts an incredibly beautiful design, with practically no bezel and a wafer-thin body. A new age of television is upon us, and we couldn’t be more excited. Samsung…
By Mike Perlman |
LG went 3D wild at CES in Las Vegas this morning, unveiling the latest additions to its 3D Smart TV lineup. In addition to 55-inch, 60-inch and 72-inch panel sizes, LG will offer a mammoth 84-inch 3D Ultra Definition Cinema TV. This monster of the…
By Noah Kravitz |
Funny thing happened at the Las Vegas Convention Center tonight: Some banners outside of North Hall were unwrapped a little early, and one of them hints at a possible Kinect competitor in Samsung. Looks like Sammy is adding voice control, along with gesture control and…
By Killian Bell |
If you look at today’s tablet and immediately think, “you fat so and so,” then you’re just far too hard to please. But Toshiba may have something up its sleeve that can satisfy you. According to a post on the Japanese company’s website, it is…
By Killian Bell |
Lovefilm subscribers in the U.K. will soon be able to stream BBC and ITV shows to their living rooms. The movie streaming and rental service has struck deals with BBC Worldwide — the BBC’s commercial arm — and ITV to boost its steaming catalog, and…
By Brandon Russell |
A new patent application discovered by AppleInsider suggests Apple’s much rumored television may use displays with dynamic backlight adaptation for superior picture quality, meaning letterboxed content, like DVDs and BluRay, would be much improved. Technology used in current TVs have a difficult time displaying “true”…
By Emily Price |
Jonathan Ive is rumored to have an Apple-branded HDTV hanging out in his office. According to a USA Today source who worked at Apple, Apple’s head of design is sitting on a 50-inch iTV that is likely to hit the market later this year. The…
By Brandon Russell |
Will we finally see an a la carte cable subscription service in 2012? If Apple can successfully finagle licensing deals, its much fabled iTV offering may introduce Internet-based content subscriptions with customized channel lineups, according to Sterne Agee analysts Shaw Wu. Love sports? Order all the sports…
By Emily Price |
In addition to all the new gadgets and gizmos at CES each year it seems like there’s always at least one (if not several) televisions on the show floor touting themselves as the “world’s largest.” It looks like CES 2012 will be no exception; however,…
By Sean P. Aune |
Apple has slowly been working its way into every corner of our lives; from our pockets (iPods and the iPhone) to being a staple in the contents of our messenger bags (iPad), Apple is showing up just about everywhere you can think of. There are,…
By Emily Price |
Supply-chain reports indicate that Apple will be launching a 32 and a 37-inch dedicated Apple televisions in the second or third quarter of 2012. According to a DigiTimes report, the televisions will be running on A5 chips comparable to those currently found in the iPhone…
By Noah Kravitz |
Samsung’s never been one to shy away from multiple iterations of the same basic concept in their product lines. To wit, they currently sell smartphones that run the Android, Windows Phone and Symbian OSes in addition to their own Bada platform. So why should TVs…
By Emily Price |
According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple has started meeting with top media execs at several large companies to talk about what it sees as the future for television – a Siri-powered television. The television is expected to work very similar to Apple’s set-top box,…
By Adriana Lee |
Another day, another email from Logitech. If you’re among the Logitech Revue users losing hope of ever seeing Android grace our set top boxes (like I am), then note that the company has sent a second email telling us to hold on — the Google…
By Brandon Russell |
Rumors of Apple’s jump into the television market have run rampant ever since Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs was released in late October. Apparently, Jobs had told Isaacson he “finally cracked” how to integrate a simple UI that would seamlessly sync with a user’s…
By Emily Price |
Could we see a full-fledged Apple-branded HDTV next year? Apple analyst Gene Munster thinks so, commenting on the potential device at a media conference yesterday morning. Muster thinks that the television will be priced close to twice that of a traditional TV of the same…
By Noah Kravitz |
Last week I posted my written review of Google TV and its newly minted Honeycomb (Android 3.1) update. This week I took out the video camera to do the review again. My conclusions are still basically the same now as they were last week, though…
By Noah Kravitz |
Timely, isn’t it, to post this review hot on the heels of Logitech’s CEO calling his company’s foray into Google TV “a mistake of implementation of a gigantic nature”? As Adriana reported, company chief Guerrino De Luca said the GTV-powered Revue set-top box cost his…
By Emily Price |
Both Amazon and Best Buy have dropped the price of the Apple TV by $10, suggesting that a refresh may be on its way. Amazon has also added a “2010” label to product’s listing on its site, which seems to suggest that a 2011 (or…
By Emily Price |
Could Sony be working on its own internet-based television alternative? According to The Wall Street Journal, Sony has approached “several big media companies” including Discovery, NBCUniversal, and News Corp. about potentially streaming their content over the web to Sony devices as a cable television alternative.…
