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Consumers Won't Trash Analog TVs
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 07, 2008  | 
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.
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Mitsubishi's Illuminating Show
Thomas J. Norton  |  Apr 07, 2008  | 
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.
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Mitsubishi 2008 Line Show
Scott Wilkinson  |  Apr 06, 2008  | 

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.

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Is TV Demand Shrinking?
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 04, 2008  | 
Demand for television sets is on the wane, according to The Wall Street Journal, citing "recent consumer surveys and comments from a TV supplier and from club stores."
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Semi-Liberated Cubans Buy Electronic Goods
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 03, 2008  | 
Flat-panel TVs, DVD players, computers, mopeds, and kitchen appliances were among the goods that went on sale in Cuba this week. Incredibly, the old Fidel Castro regime had forbidden sales of these items till just this Tuesday. The new regime is a tad more reasonable about what Raul Castro calls "excessive prohibitions." But there's just one catch.
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Dolby and SIM2 Demonstrate LED LCD
Scott Wilkinson  |  Apr 03, 2008  | 

Following an initial showing at CES in January, Dolby Laboratories and SIM2 demonstrated their latest prototype LCD flat-screen display in New York on Monday. The panel utilizes Dolby's LED backlighting with local dimming, which the company calls HDR (high dynamic range). This moniker is highly appropriate, since the LEDs behind dark portions of the image can be dimmed or even turned off completely for black areas, resulting in a literally infinite contrast ratio!

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FCC Bans Apartment Exclusives
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 02, 2008  | 
Apartment dwellers are plagued by exclusive telecom service agreements struck by their landlords and co-op boards. As a result their choice of triple-play service is limited to a single favored provider--until now. The Federal Communications Commission has just banned such agreements.
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Dolby and SIM2 Dazzle with LEDs
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 01, 2008  | 
Despite their popularity, LCD TVs have always had a problem with black level. Yesterday Dolby and SIM2 gave dazzled reporters a glimpse of how good black and dark colors could look on a flat-panel set. Unfortunately, this High Dynamic Range (HDR) tech was only a prototype, so it'll be awhile before you get to share the love.
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Will Blu-ray Skyrocket or Dive-Bomb?
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 31, 2008  | 
Blu-ray will take 29.4 million more homes by storm by the end of the year, say researchers. Blu-ray is doomed, says the chief scientist of THX. Who to believe?
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Can't Afford That New HDTV? Haggle!
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 28, 2008  | 
If the pricetag on that giant plasma seems excessive, guess what? You might get a lower one just by asking for it.
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Rent Tunes on iTunes?
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 27, 2008  | 
Apple is thinking about an all-you-can-eat subscription policy for iTunes--true or false?
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Cable Ops Harass CableCARD Users
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 25, 2008  | 
Major cable operators are now cutting off program options to viewers who opted to dump their cable boxes for CableCARDS.
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Satellite Providers Can Ax Local HD
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 24, 2008  | 
Local stations suffered a setback in the transition to digital television last week when the Federal Communications Commission ruled that satellite providers needn't carry local signals in HD till 2013.
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TiVo Supports Web Video
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 21, 2008  | 
The a/v and online worlds converged just a touch more this week when TiVo activated a new feature that allows subscribers to watch web video content on their TiVo-fed TVs.
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PS3 To Go BD-Live
Scott Wilkinson  |  Mar 21, 2008  | 

Sony announced on Thursday that the next firmware update for the PlayStation 3 (v. 2.20) will add BD-Live capabilities, sometimes called Profile 2.0, to the game console that also happens to be a Blu-ray player. Scheduled for release in late March, this update will make the PS3 the first BD-Live device to become available since the format launched over a year ago.

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