Category: TVs
Sony introduces Bravia W4000-Series LCD TV
Sony’s latest full HD TV is the Bravia W4000-Series LCD, which also throws in a ‘special Picture Frame Mode’ that displays HD photo images when the TV is not in use – pre-installed or your own via USB….
Nine in ten UK homes now have digital TV
According to last week’s Ofcom report, nearly 90% of British homes now have access to some form of multichannel, digital TV on their main set.
As the digital switchover continues region by region over the next four years, and thanks to the fact that it’s fairly difficult to buy a TV that’s not digital ready now, be it standard definition or HD ready, it seems that most of us have got the message that it’s good to go digital…
Humax goes retro with space age concept TV
Sometimes words aren’t necessary. Which is just as well with this TV – as details are scarce…
Topfield TF5810 Freeview box – 500GB storage, twin tuners and upscaling
Not just a Freeview box, the Topfield TF5810 packs in all the storage you need, along with upscaling for your recordings…
Philips aims to be on Greenpeace's Christmas card list, with their 42PFL5603D Eco FlatTV
Philips has whipped out a platter of some of the products they’ll be releasing within the next few months, including the Eco FlatTV which, as it sounds, is their eco-friendly offering.
With features that’ll impress our Hippyshopper editor including an inbuilt light sensor which will dim the backlight according to the lighting, the use of lead-free components, and importantly,…
Nokia's DVB-H standard adopted by EU as official mobile phone TV format
Mobile phone TV, eh? The amazing-for-30-seconds flash-in-the-pan literally nobody cares about? Well, somebody cares. Nokia cares. And the European Union cares. Together, they have just announced that the DVB-H digital format is now the preferred format for mobile telly in Europe. Hooray!
What this means for us is we’re about to get bombarded with promotional images of mobile phones showing football clips on, as everyone thinks men watching football clips is the only way to sell TV services. Like this:
Sorry this news is a bit dull and about digital TV formats…
Pandigital offers kitchen HDTV, cookbook and photo frame hybrid
Digital frame specialist Pandigital has made a move into the kitchen – offering the Kitchen HDTV / Digital Cookbook / Digital Photo Frame.
Sharp launches AQUOS D44E series of HD-ready TVs
More HD-ready TVs on the market, this time from Sharp, which has launched its AQUOS D44E series.
HANNSpree launches HANNSMilano – TV shaped like a handbag
Bored of a TV-shaped TV? Well, HANNSpree has an alternative – the handbag-shaped HANNSMilano.
Inevitable newsflash: Pioneer announces end of production of Plasma panels
Pioneer has gone and announced exactly what everyone’s been expecting for the last month or more – that production of their Plasma screens will be ceased, with third-party (likely Matsushita) panels being rebranded for their Kuro range.
According to a news release from Pioneer this morning, “we have judged that maintaining the cost competitiveness of plasma display panels at projected sales volumes will be difficult going forward. Accordingly, we have decided to terminate in-house plasma display panel production and to procure these panels externally, after panel production for our next series of models is complete.”
To reduce the amount of job losses…