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Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 09, 2008  |  0 comments
Philips will no longer sell television sets in the North American market. Instead it will license its Philips and Magnavox brand names to Funai, which makes TVs for Wal-Mart among others. The license is for five years. Other Philips consumer product businesses in North America will not be affected.
SV Staff  |  Apr 08, 2008  |  0 comments
Gemstar-TV Guide International made nice with TiVo and paid for the right to deploy the company's technology around the world. The magazine publisher and programming data reseller didn't say which countries' set top boxes it plans to colonize in...
SV Staff  |  Apr 08, 2008  |  0 comments
As a rule, you won't find me wandering the aisles of big box electronics stores. Between my own custom install showroom, all of the trade shows I attend, and getting products to review for S&V, I get my fill of the latest, high-end gear and...
SV Staff  |  Apr 08, 2008  |  0 comments
WirelessHD may have just gained the lead in the standards war between it, WirelessUSB, and WiFi for the technology that will power our uncompressed high-def video streaming for years to come. SiBeam, a maker of a 60 Ghz fabless chip designed to the...
SV Staff  |  Apr 08, 2008  |  0 comments
European fans of Pioneer's Kuro line of HDTVs will be eager to study the company's recently released breakdown of its upcoming line. With a full complement of LCDs, front projectors and familiar plasmas for the continent in 2008, Pioneer is doing a...
SV Staff  |  Apr 08, 2008  |  0 comments
Verizon calls its FiOS TV subscribers "ahead of the game" for buying into its advanced, all-digital service. That must be why the company feels no shame in snipping the wires on its customers' analog TV channels and taking them off the air...
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 08, 2008  |  0 comments
Perhaps there is no more potent icon of American motherhood than Florence Henderson, who played Carol Brady on The Brady Bunch. She'll be helping the Consumer Electronics Association "encourage baby boomers to help their elderly parents, relatives, and neighbors get ready" for the transition to digital television, says a CEA press release.
Thomas J. Norton  |  Apr 07, 2008  |  0 comments
Will there be laser light in your home theater some day? Mitsubishi hopes so. To the best of our knowledge, it is the only company about to use lasers as the light source for some of its DLP-based, rear projection televisions.
SV Staff  |  Apr 07, 2008  |  0 comments
How convenient. Researchers at European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) needed a super-fast network to store data gathered from its universe probing experiments conducted with an enormous particle accelerator. In the process of creating this...
SV Staff  |  Apr 07, 2008  |  0 comments
Lasers make everything better. At least, that's what Mitsubishi hopes consumers will think when they see the company's new laser-powered HDTVs in stores this summer. The company announced Monday that its laser sets, now officially dubbed...
SV Staff  |  Apr 07, 2008  |  0 comments
Sony was one of the earliest backers of the Blu-ray format, but continues to promote the format mainly through one product: the PlayStation 3. Looks like the company is finally wising up, and searching for ways to put its Blu-ray eggs into more...
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 07, 2008  |  0 comments
Will all those lead-filled analog TVs end up on the trash heap, where they'll pollute ground water? Not so, says the Consumer Electronics Association. A new study shows most of the obsolete sets will find loving new homes.
Scott Wilkinson  |  Apr 06, 2008  |  0 comments

Last week, Mitsubishi invited its dealers and members of the press to see this year's TVs at the Hyatt Regency in Huntington Beach, California. Front and center were the company's laser-illuminated DLP rear-pros, first unveiled at CES last January. Dubbed LaserVue, these sets are intended to rekindle the flagging RPTV market with twice the color range of today's HDTVs and larger screen sizes than any reasonably priced flat panel.

SV Staff  |  Apr 04, 2008  |  0 comments
Sit down at a cafe in Paris and begin talking about your latest Blu-ray movie purchase, and odds are your French neighbors will have no idea what you're talking about. Try the same at a Manhattan bar and the barflies will likely get the gist. ...
SV Staff  |  Apr 04, 2008  |  0 comments
Too old to rock & roll? Not the Rolling Stones, as they prove in Martin Scorsese's killer concert documentary Shine a Light, which opens today. The subject of age seems to be on most other critics' minds, but I honestly wasn't struck by the...

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