Category: HDTV
LG unveils M228WD: high spec monitor with digital tuner
LG has announced its M228WD 22 inch widescreen display monitor, featuring a built in digital tuner and HDMI connection. While it's not going to rival dedicated high-end high definition TVs, it could make a great combo PC monitor and TV…
Toshiba claims thinnest LCD TV – for now – 23mm
In the world of high definition televisions, it's not just how big the TV is that counts, it seems, but how thin it is. Two months ago, it was Sharp boasting thin screens, with a prototype LCD TV just 20mm…
Sky tempts in the style conscious with limited edition Sky HD designer boxes
Sky dishes aren't particularly attractive, but Sky boxes? Well, they've just gone from plain and functional to sought-after items, thanks to the input of a few creative types. The Sky HD Designer Collection is the media giant's attempt to…
AppleTV may go high-def with new version ofiTunes
AppleTV, the much maligned video streaming box which seems even less use in the UK than it is in the US, could be getting better high definition support very soon, if rumours are to be believed. A major update to…
Sharp and Yahoo team up for HDTV web browsing
Imagine looking at websites in glorious high-resolution on your flat-screen telly? Sharp is doing its best to make sure you don’t have to imagine, with a new service called Yahoo! HD for AQUOS’, which was unveiled at the CEATEC Japan 2007 show this week.
Basically, the service upscales content from Yahoo’s Japanese portal to make the most of a 1920 x 1080 resolution LCD TV. Among the features being shown off by Sharp are mapping and picture books, with a keen focus on content that would be likely to “stimulate conversation” among the several people likely to be sitting in front of a TV.
Sony XEL-1: world's first OLED TV
Sony has claimed the world's first OLED (organic light-emitting diode) high definition TV, the XEL-1. It features an 11 inch screen, and is just 3mm thin, thanks to the fact that the TV doesn't require backlighting. The materials used are…
BBC Trust backs high definition channel
The BBC Trust has provisionally backed plans for the BBC to establish a more permanent high definition channel, after the success of the trial version available to satellite and cable viewers. Offering programmes from across the BBC's existing channels, it…
Pioneer unveils KURO plasma TVs promising deeper black levels than ever before
Pioneer has taken the wrappers off its new KURO plasma TV range, with a promise that the tellies will display 80% deeper black levels than their rivals (and so provide richer colours and sharper details).
The first two KURO TVs are 50 and 60 inches respectively, and will both be HD-ready 1080p models. What’s that? You want a suitably artsy quote? How about this: “In the art world, a plain white canvas represents a blank slate waiting for an artist to create,” says Pioneer’s Heidi Johnson-Cash. “In the world of television, a black screen is a similarly blank canvas ready for content to be displayed.”
No bathtub is complete without… a 61-inch telly?
Bathrooms with built-in TVs are becoming more common, thanks to the growing number of people who simply can’t imagine scrubbing themselves with a loofah without also watching Match Of The Day. And who’d blame them.
So check this 61-inch Theater Spa out, from US firm Catalina Spas. It’s an enormous spa bath with, yes, a 61-inch LCD TV built in.
Ridley Scott disenchanted with mobile and computer technology killing cinema
Ridley Scott has spoken out against the technology which allows films to be watched on mobile devices and computer screens.
Speaking at the Venice Film Festival, he said that, while many aspects of new technology were “wonderful”, directors were “fighting technology”.
“We try to do films which are in support of cinema, in a large room with good sound and a big picture,” he said.
He wasn’t entirely clear what types of technology were killing cinema, but presumably he’s not a fan of the way films look in anything but the original format. That’s not a new problem for filmmakers.
