Audio Video News

The good news is that HDTV ownership is up. The bad news is that many HDTVs in U.S. homes can't get an HD signal.

Roger Ebert, one of the nation's most eminent film critics, is giving the 3D revival a thumbs-down.

Sharp recently announced the launch of its new Quattron LCD sets with LED edge lighting. All of them employ the company's new Quad Pixel technology, which adds dedicated yellow pixels to the red, green, and blue pixels present in all LCD displays. The added pixels are said to produce colors that ordinary LCD sets cannot.

Avatar is breaking Blu-ray records all over the place, and it's not even out in 3D yet.

Congratulations, Denon. You were founded in 1910 by the American-born entrepreneur Frederick Whitney Horn as the Japan Recorders Corporation, making records and gramphones. Since then you've celebrated many technological firsts, become the number one brand in surround receivers, and been adopted into the D&M Holdings family. Now you're 100 years old, a claim few consumer electronics companies can make.

Want more high-def choices on satellite? Both of the major satellite TV providers are adding HD channels, and DirecTV's 3D roster is now up to four channels.

Not all 3DTVs are flat panels. Mitsubishi, whose DLP rear-projection sets were an early vehicle for 3D, plans to introduce new fourth-gen models and will also offer 3D in the form of edge-lit LED LCD displays.