tvs
Roku unveils its first-ever TVs designed and built by the company
Roku today is expanding its product line to include a range of smart TVs that are the first to be both designed and built by Roku itself. The Roku Select and Roku…
TVs this year will ship with a new feature called “filmmaker mode,” but unlike the last dozen things the display industry has tried to foist on consumers, this one actually…
Fire TV Edition expands to more soundbars, plus cars, cable boxes and more
Amazon’s Fire TV Edition, the version of Fire TV that now powers more than 50 Fire TV Edition smart TVs and soundbars as a competitor to Roku TV, is expanding…
Sony’s newest Bravia TV is the first interesting TV I’ve seen at CES
There are so many damn TVs at CES it’s rare for one to get my attention — but Sony just announced a new TV for their flagship Bravia line that…
Curved TVs are silly – the result of an industry flailing for some new selling point, now that 1080p is pretty much a standard option and the market has proven…
The hardest thing about watching TV is finding the remote after a long, slovenly lounge on the couch. Cube26 aims to improve on that situation by turning your TV, phone,…
Hitachi And Mitsubishi Stop Domestic Production Of TVs, Optical Discs
Two big Japanese electronics companies, namely Hitachi and Mitsubishi, are to stop producing parts of their product portfolio domestically: Hitachi announced [JP] it will end production of plasma and LCD…
LG To Showcase 84-Inch 3D TV With 4K Resolution At CES 2012
It seems that 55-Inch OLED TV wasn’t enough for LG: the Korean company today announced it’s ready to showcase another monster TV at the CES 2012 in Las Vegas (which…
55 Inches: LG To Showcase World’s Largest OLED TV AT CES 2012
We’ve been waiting for large-sized OLED TVs at least since Sony rolled out the cool (but too small) XEL-1 in 2007. Various bigger OLEDs and “breakthroughs” have made the news…
Toshiba Japan Dates And Prices Its 55-Inch Naked-Eye 3D TV With 4K Resolution
Do you remember that 55-inch monster of a naked-eye 3D TV Toshiba unveiled back in October? The company now announced [JP] a date (December 10) and confirmed the final price…
Second bad news for Sony today: Following the hack attempts at three of their networks, the company today announced [JP] that it will recall a total of 1.6 million BRAVIA…
Toshiba Shows 55-Inch Naked-Eye 3D TV With 3,840×2,160 Resolution
If you thought Sharp’s 4K TV we’ve shown you last week is impressive, think again. Toshiba today unveiled a 55-inch LCD that boasts the same resolution (3,840×2,160 pixels, 4x full…
[Update: Video] Sharp Showcases 4K LCD TV (3,840×2,160 Resolution), To Sell It 2012
Full HD resolution (1,920×1,080 pixels) isn’t enough for Sharp. The company has developed [JP] a TV that’s capable of producing images with 3,840×2,160 resolution and is ready to show the…
Sharp Shows 70-Inch Aquos Quattron LCD 3D TV With “Mega-Brightness” Panel
Sharp Japan announced [JP] the Aquos Quattron 3D LC-70X5 for the local market yesterday, a follow-up of sorts to the LC-70LE735U that’s been available in the States for a few…
Insignia, Best Buy’s in-house tech brand, has just released a TV with a TiVo UI built-in. Why? I suppose people didn’t want to have a separate TiVo on their CE…
Via Android 2.1: Panasonic Adds Web Browsing To Their Japanese Mini TVs
Japan is probably one of the biggest markets for portable TVs in the world, but because the digital standard used in those devices (1Seg) has only been adopted by Japan…
Toshiba To Start Selling Their Battery-Powered TV In Japan, Too
Back in November 2010, Toshiba introduced the world’s first series of battery-powered LCD TVs. Dubbed Power TV, the devices were initially produced with developing countries or regions with unstable power…
Nissho Electronics in Japan announced [JP] the BDL5231-3D2R today, a 52-inch glasses-less 3D TV that boasts full HD resolution. Dutch electronics venture Dimenco Displays, founded by four former Phillips employees,…
Samsung officially announced [KOR] the D9500 today, a 75-inch LCD 3D TV with LED backlight, the biggest of its kind. That is pretty cool, but the downside is that users…
Do you remember the battery-powered REGZA PC1 Power TVs Toshiba announced for certain emerging markets last November? Today, the company said in Tokyo it plans to launch a similar (but…
Panasonic Shows Portable TV With Wi-Fi, DLNA, Web Radio Support
Panasonic Japan today announced the SV-ME870 [JP], a portable, digital 7-inch VIERA TV. There are quite a few of these devices available in Japan, but this one is probably the…
Sony Shows BRAVIAs With 3D, X-Reality PRO Engine, VOD, Skype, Twitter, Facebook Support
Sony has unveiled [JP] a total of six new BRAVIA LCD TVs to be released in Japan next month, and it looks like technically, Sony has focused on three key…
Just In Time For March Madness: Hannspree 55-inch Basketball TV
For all you Globetrotters out there who want a TV that belongs in an MTV Cribs episode, check out the Hannspree 55-inch Basketball TV. Its got all that you’d expect…
Panasonic today announced [JP] what it says is the world’s first gesture-controlled TV, meaning the device doesn’t require you to use the remote control or touch the screen (at least…
Mitsubishi Electric yesterday showed a “Laser Backlight LCD TV” [JP] the company plans to release within this year. At the press conference in Tokyo, Mitsubishi showcased a 46-inch prototype TV…
MiniStation: Stick Buffalo's New HDD Onto The Back Of Your TV
It’s hard to “innovate” when you’re a maker of hard discs, but Japanese company Buffalo had an idea: why not offer a model users can stick to the back of…
Sony announced [JP] three new BRAVIA-branded TVs today, and – big surprise – none of them are 3D-capable. The main selling point here is that all models come with a…
Nobody wants TVs requiring glasses to view pictures in 3D, and as it turns out, even glasses-free 3D TVs don’t sell like hot cakes. Case in point: Toshiba’s naked-eye 3D…
Panasonic has announced [JP] a total of ten new 3D TVs yesterday, two LCDs and eight plasmas. The LCD TVs will be part of the VIERA DT3 series, while the…
57% Of Blu-ray Recorders, 23% Of Large-Screen TVs Sold In Japan Are Now 3D
Japan is probably one of the markets with the highest penetration of 3D electronics currently. Tokyo-based research firm BCN [JP] today said that a whopping 56.8% of Blu-ray recorders shipped…