Category: TVs
The making of the Sony Bravia ad
Computer graphics are everywhere these days. So to shoot an entire commercial without any at all is rare. But that's exactly what Sony did for a new ad to highlight its latest range of BRAVIA HDTVs. Set to the stripped-down…
Sony's celebration of colour
To announce the arrival of its BRAVIA LCD and 3LCD range, Sony wanted to get across a simple message – that the colour you'll see on its screens will be 'like no other'. So Danish director Nicolai Fuglsig sent 250,000…
The making of the Sony BRAVIA ad
Computer graphics are everywhere these days. So to shoot an entire commercial without any at all is rare. But that's exactly what Sony did for a new ad to highlight its latest range of BRAVIA HDTVs. Set to the stripped-down…
Sony's 50inch rear projection LCD TV
Looking for a flat screen this Chrimbo but don't want the hassle of hanging it on the wall? Sony's new 50inch BRAVIA (the KDF-E50A12U to give it its full title) promises a really clear big picture and comes with this…
Panny adds budget HD ready LCDs
As if there weren't already more than enough LCD TVs in the VIERA series, Panasonic has now announced two new additions. The TX-32LXD52 (£1200) and TX-26LXD52 (£800) are HD Ready, and include a HDMI input and an integrated Freeview Tuner…
SED – better than plasma and LCD? Maybe
The annoying thing about Canon's Expo, a showcase for its new products and upcoming technologies, is that it visits three countries in the space of a few months, so anyone who visited the Expo in New York last month…
Canon's LCD and plasma rival
New sibling blog HDTV UK has the latest on Canon's SED (Surface-conduction Electron-emitter Display) TVs which it hopes will rival plasma and LCD sets. While the sets work in the same way as standard CRT models, they have significantly…
First portable digital TV arrives
Given the Government's announcement last week about the analogue TV switch off there is now gaping hole for small-ish portable TVs with digital TV tuners built in. First to fill said hole is Roadstar which has just launched the…
Thousands of Britons face blank TV screens
In a speech in Cambridge yesterday the government's Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell (nice smile) confirmed that the great switch off of analogue TV transmissions would begin in 2008 and finish just prior to the Olympics in 2012. Already however…
Bush's mini Freeview decoder
Tomorrow’s papers are likely to full of stuff about digital TV as government Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell is delivering a big speech tonight outlining how unless we go digital with a few years (the switch off starts in 2008)…