AV Wrap: Projector Makers Go Head To Head
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November 23, 2011
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BenQ is tipping its projector line-up in the green direction with a slate of ‘SmartEco’ releases in early 2012. Rolling out later... Read More
Large Screen OLED Set To Be The Next Big TV Thing In 2012
The new range of OLED TVs is set to be revealed at CES 2012 along with an expanded... Read More
82% In Oz Prefer LG 3D After Blind Test
At a launch today in Sydney, LG announced a strategic relationship with RedBull where they will deliver Redbull radio, Redbull TV and... Read More
Sony, Toshiba, Hitachi Merge LCDs To Fend Off Korean Rivals
The Japanese government is giving its manufacturers a leg up in the display market with a 200billion yen injection that will see... Read More
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Click to enlarge Sony Bravia NX 810 3DTV “There’s a tremendous amount of R&D going into [it]” he said, which could be... Read More
Lenovo Reveals First USB Plug & Play Widescreen For Multi-Screening Laptops
Dual screen displays were once the domain of PC set-ups with a video card that supports multi-screen, but Lenovo’s latest 14 inch... Read More
3D On Your Face: Sony Intros Personal 3D Viewer Visors
The ‘Personal 3D Viewer’ or HMZ-T1 is a grey and black visor with two small displays that sit a few centimetres ahead... Read More
Thanks Galaxy: Samsung Beat iPhone Sales By 10M But LCD’s A Disaster
Click to enlarge Hero of Q3, Galaxy S II Total net profit, however, dived 23% to 3.44 m won or US$3.11bn, which... Read More
Red Alert: LG Stumbles $366M As Smartphones Flop
Click to enlarge This compared to $8bn loss just a year ago for the third largest phone maker in the world. The... Read More
Monster TV: 200″ JVC Kenwood HD 3D Wall
The video wall display a joint project between Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology and JVC Kenwood offers translucent crystal... Read More
TV Market Dip: LCD Price Slash Pushing Out Plasma, OLED Coming Next Year
Asia Pacific is slated for the highest growth rates in the TV market as global forecasts dip below earlier expectations according to... Read More
Panasonic Stockpiles 3D TVs Into Shrinking Plasma Market
The two new models jump onto Panasonic’s latest plasma line-up of 16 screens announced back in April, but DisplaySearch researchers have tipped... Read More
Hitachi OZ Now Promoting TVs After Inital Denial
Hitachi Australia appears to have had a change of mind about the sale of Hitachi branded TV’s in Australia. After initially denying... Read More
Sony Bravia TVs Facing Recall Because Of Fire Threat
Sony is facing another quality problem with over 400,000 of the Japanese Companies Bravia LCD TV’s facing a recall because of the... Read More
Panasonic Injects Smart TV Functions Into Old TVs
Panasonic is giving back to last year’s customers with a software upgrade for 2010 Viera models with IPTV functionality, including the VT20,... Read More
Could 3D Jump Into Classrooms? Research Says Yes
The study, conducted by International Research Agency, put 740 10-13 year old students in front of TI’s stereoscopic 3D DLP projectors (the... Read More
Dell, Acer LED The Way In OZ PC Race
Click to enlarge This figure marks a jump of 18.4%, according to anlysts IDC’s PC Monitor tracker. Dell led the way with... Read More
Epson Introduces Wireless 3D Projectors
Epson’s top of the range TW9000W Last year Epson sat on the 3D projector sidelines, claiming they’ll join the game when they... Read More
Acer Releases New Ultra-Compacts Into Widening Portable Projector Pool
3D and Full HD content may be pushing projector sales, but portable projectors for businesses on the go are becoming a massive... Read More
iTwin Invisible Cables Now Pair Macs & PCs
Once a PC exclusive, the double-ended USB keys that turn two computers into a virtual cloud space can now connect between Mac... Read More
New Sharp 60 inch TV Is All About The Big Picture
Click to enlarge LED backlit, Sharps new LC-60LE630X is their latest Full HD offering that brings a stunning cinematic experience into the... Read More
How to Upgrade Your TV To 3D Without Buying A New One
Click to enlarge Source: 3Dnow.com 3D Now is a brand 3D TV system that allows you to uprade any TV to 3D.”If... Read More
Power-Saving ViewSonic LEDs Go Thin On A Budget
The 48 Series of monitors comes in 19-, 22- and 24-inch sizes, with the same green tech on board as the recently-released... Read More
Apple 27 Inch Thunderbolts Mac Into Action…This Week
Click to enlarge Announced in late July, Apple said the 27 inch display would be available ‘within 60 days’ for AUD$1,199 (inc... Read More
LG Dual Play 3D TV To Thump Sony PlayStation?
Click to enlarge The left user wear polarised glasses kitted out with two left-eye lenses, while the right player sports two right-eye... Read More
LG Cinema 3D Stripping Market Share Away From Competitors
The company will probably reach 20 percent of the market for the devices by the end of 2011, up from 4 percent... Read More
After 3D TV Flop Sony Now Banking On Tablets & TVs To Save Them
According to struggling Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer, the Japanese company’s two new tablets – including an ‘S’ and ‘P’ model –... Read More
3D YouTube To Hit Samsung SmartTVs
Announced at the IFA exhibition in Germany, Samsung will release an update YouTube application that is capable of delivering 3D content to... Read More
Look, No Glasses: Toshiba Unveil 55″ Naked 3D TV With iPhone Controls
Click to enlarge The 55 inch ZL2, first revealed at CES in January, offering glasses free 3D TV experience – is becoming... Read More
Sony TV Helmet: Wear A 3D TV
Click to enlarge Image credit: Reuters The HMZ Personal 3D Viewer, ‘not much wider than a pair of sunglasses’ allows TV watching,... Read More
Bye Bye TV: Sony, Sharp & Samsung Flee Big Displays – Tabs Takeover
Click to enlarge LCD TVs once hailed as the consumer ‘must have’ now appears to be hitting a wall, as the tablet... Read More
Team LCD: Sony, Toshiba & Hitachi Shock Merger As Tab Displays Boom
Click to enlarge “Innovation Network Corporation of Japan, Hitachi, Sony and Toshiba announced today that they have signed a non-binding Memorandum of... Read More
Better Than HD? BBC To Show Olympics In ‘Super HDTV’
Click to enlarge The breakthrough super picture quality, which won’t hit mainstream sets for another 10 years at least, will fool viewers... Read More
Samsung To Slash LCD TV Production 80% & Turn To Tabs, Following LG’s Lead
Bye Bye TV: Galaxy new Tab 10.1 According to Korea Economic Daily, the 3D TV maker is cutting monthly production as demand... Read More
LG PenTouch TV: HDTV Sensitive To The Touch
Click to enlarge Creative: LG PenTouch TV According to big Picture Big Sound, PenTouch Mode is easily activated through the TV’s remote... Read More
Tab Threat: LG Slash LCDs As iPad 2 & Androids Call The Shots
Click to enlarge Why? Two words: tablets and smartphones. iPad 2, Android tabs and smartphones are increasingly eating into LCD and smart... Read More
Sony PlayStation 3D TV Jitters As Plugs ‘Special Bundle’ $499?
Click to enlarge Although Sony insist interest in the new 24″ 3D LED display has been high, it is now flogging the... Read More
Espial Web-For-TV Browser: Smart TV Without Forking Out
Click to enlarge The handy browser provides web search, news, sports, weather and games ‘portals’ as well as video-on-demand, allows you to... Read More
Apple To Invest Sharp LCD Plant & Get Rid Of Samsung
Click to enlarge Picture: Mock up iPad 3 Retina display. The plant, owned by Sharp and located in western Japan would be... Read More
Budget Sharp Aquos Models Ditch LED For CCFL Backlighting
The new LC-40M500X, due out later this August, is a Full HD 40 incher that sits with a modest number of connectivity... Read More
Panasonic Pushes 65-Inch Plasma As Its New Smart TV Range Topper
The TH-P65VT30A replaces the VT20A as the flagship model in the series, now taking pole position as Panasonic’s largest but thinnest Viera... Read More
Central Station: Samsung 23Inch Wireless Meet-All Monitor $429
Click to enlarge Image: Samsung Like a docking station, Samsung’s Grand ‘Central Station’ monitor serve as a wireless PC “hub” where a... Read More
Smart TV Go Small: Samsung 27″ LED 3D TV $799
Click to enlarge Pictured: Samsung TA27950 27″ Smart TV Samsung Australia have unveiled new line of 3D-enabled LED monitors here meaning 3D... Read More
Bargains Bin: Nintendo 3DS Crashes $199, Samsung 40Inch 3D TV $1196
Click to enlarge Image: Get these 3D babies for $199. This marks a whopping $150 drop from when the console was first... Read More
Google Android Fuses Tablet and Phone OS
Click to enlarge Ice Cream Sandwich fuses Honeycomb cream with Mobile OS’ dough. At the moment, Android tablets run on a separate... Read More
Arch Enemy Scores Apple iPad 2 Display Deal
Click to enlarge And worst of all, it has lost orders for 9.7″ iPad 2 displays to arch enemy, Samsung as well... Read More
LG Invests Billions In LCD Replacement
The Korean company will invest 220 billion yen in the OEL technology that consumes less power while producing sharper images in order... Read More
Samsung Teams With Sony & Panasonic To Take On LG
As Samsung Australia and LG Electronics still slug it out in the Australian Federal over claims that LG is engaging in misleading... Read More
BrilliantColor: ViewSonic Vivid Projectors Go Pro $1999
Click to enlarge Pictured: ViewSonic Pro 8400 The Pro 8 Series with BrilliantColor technology can now produce more vivid colours and project in... Read More
LG Unveil 55 Inch Passive 3DTV As Rivals Samsung Sweat
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