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- LCD
- (Liquid Crystal Display) A display technology that uses rod-shaped molecules (liquid crystals) that flow like liquid and bend light. Unenergized, the crystals direct light through two polarizing filters,...
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- Logitech G15 Keyboard (Revision 2)
- Somehow we missed Logitech's update to its G15 Keyboard last year. It started showing up in our lab recently with a few high-end gaming PCs that spurred us to give it the full review treatment. We're glad we did. The new model improves on many facets of the original, elevating...
- Tags: Monitors & displays, Keyboards, Logitech G15, Logitech, G-key, LCD screen, LCD, keyboard
- Product reviews 2008-05-06
- How your HDTV is a sign of the economy
- How your HDTV is a sign of the economyHDTV UpgradeWell the 30" LCD I bought about 3 years ago costed me 1200 euros and now has a rather annoyed hazy black line across the middle of the screen and I'm looking for a new one.42" Plasma still going strong..I bought...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Monitors & displays, HDTV, LCD
- Discussion threads 2008-04-23
- How your HDTV is a sign of the economy
- Think that shiny new box in front of your couch is a product solely of your meticulous online research and hard-earned cash? Think again. What if I told you it's a literal representation of the economy's latest downturn? (Yep, it's true.) ...
- Tags: HDTV, LCD, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Monitors & Displays, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Components, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- 20-inch iMac owner sues for lack of colors
- 20-inch iMac owner sues for lack of colorsWell "IF" Apple did lie then they should pay....I do like my 24" iMac and since I'm not a pro photographer I doubt that the color thing would be an issue with me (and from what I read I do get the colors...
- Tags: Monitors & displays, LCD, Apple iMac, Apple Inc., CRT
- Discussion threads 2008-04-02
- Panasonic HDC-SD9
- With its eye-catching, compact body and relatively low price, the Panasonic HDC-SD9 seems to be quite an attractive buy for a flash-based AVCHD camcorder. At 11.7 ounces with battery and SD card and only 3.6 inches long, it's certainly one of the smallest and lightest full-size camcorders we've ever tested,...
- Tags: Engineering, face-detection mode, battery, Panasonic, LCD, camcorder
- Product reviews 2008-03-17
- LCD TVs generated $1.7 bln in December 2007
- LCD TVs generated $1.7 bln in revenue from November 18 through December 29, 2007 making it the largest revenue producing category for that time period, a 50% increase over 2006, according to The NPD Group. Big screens were the big draw for consumers, with LCD TVS over 40 inches growing...
- Tags: Revenue, LCD TV, LCD, Monitors & Displays, Sales Strategy, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Hardware, Components, Sales, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, NB
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
- With a name like Optimist Prime, it's gotta be good
- Recently, I gave a big thumbs up to the ShaggyMac screen protector as a highly effective way to prevent smudges, prints, and damage to the glossy LCD screens that are so commonplace on mainstream laptops. Often, if we're in the trenches, we spend our time just keeping things running...
- Tags: LCD, Laptop Computer, Screen Protector, Mist, Monitors & Displays, Keyboards, Notebooks, Hardware, Components, Peripherals, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-03-16
- LCD sales grew 74% in 2007
- LCD sales grew 74% in 2007Well, as CRTs are virtually unobtainable anymore,with the quality of said units being, in a word, rubbish, of course LCDs will be predominant.:)
- Tags: Monitors & displays, Sales strategy, LCD, LCD sale, sales
- Discussion threads 2008-03-15
- Canon announces three new 10-megapixel PowerShot Digital ELPHs
- If the five Canon digital cameras announced at PMA in January weren't enough for you, you're in luck: The company just announced three more Digital ELPH point-and-shoots yesterday: the PowerShot SD890IS, SD790 IS, and SD770 IS. Might it be time for another Digital ELPH rundown? Perhaps, but for now I'll...
- Tags: LCD, Canon Inc., Optical Zoom, Canon PowerShot SD890IS, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components, Janice Chen
- Blog posts 2008-03-13
- Build a Vista-compatible office PC for $305 (software not included)
- A reader set me an email challenge the other day - put together a cheap yet well spec-ed and relatively powerful office PC that's up to the challenge of running Vista. To make the challenge even harder, the whole package (PC, keyboard, mouse, LCD panel and Vista OS) had to...
- Tags: LCD Panel, Mouse, PC, OEM, Microsoft Windows Vista, CPU, LCD, RAM, ASUS M2A-VM, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Keyboards, Monitors & Displays, Mice, Serial ATA, Desktops, Tv & Home Theater, Processors, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Hardware, Peripherals, Components, Storage, Personal Technology, Semiconductors, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-03-08
- Sources: Samsung, Sony invest big on LCDs, Pioneer exits plasma
- Sources: Samsung, Sony invest big on LCDs, Pioneer exits plasmaSony invests Big.If you could see me now you could watch me play a very poignant lament called "Too F--ing Bad for Sony" on the world's smallest violin while crying into the world's smallest towel. If other manufacturers can market...
- Tags: Monitors & displays, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., LCD, Sony Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-03-06
- LCD TVs overtook CRT TVs in 2007
- DisplaySearch reported that global TV shipments grew 21% QTQ and 5% YTY to 60.8 mln units, which brought 2007 total shipments to almost 200 mln units worldwide. For the full year in 2007, TV revenues exceeded $100 bln for the first time, with Q4 2007 revenues climbing 10% YTY and...
- Tags: LCD TV, LCD, CRT, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Monitors & Displays, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Components, AM
- Blog posts 2008-03-02
- Will Sony buy LCD TV panels from Sharp?
- Will Sony buy LCD TV panels from Sharp?Sharp can only......improve quality for Sony.
- Tags: Monitors & displays, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Sharp Corp., LCD TV Panel, Sony Corp., LCD TV, LCD
- Discussion threads 2008-02-24
- US flat panel HDTV sales up 27% in December 2007
- Pacific Media Associates reports that unit sales for flat panel HDTV televisions in North America grew by 27% in December 2007 over November 2007 sales. The average street price for all units sold in December 2007 in the report sample declined by just 1% over the average for November 2007....
- Tags: Flat Panel, HDTV, LCD, 1080p, Sales Strategy, Monitors & Displays, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Sales Force Management, Sales, Hardware, Components, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, AM
- Blog posts 2008-02-23
- Patent app points to touchscreen BlackBerry
- A new BlackBerry Patent application published this morning strongly points to a touchscreen BlackBerry- similar to the touchscreen iPhone. It's also important to note that although most BlackBerry Patent applications are only published 18 months after they are filed, this one has only a four-month gap. These...
- Tags: Touch Screen, Disclosure, Electrode, Voltage, RIM BlackBerry, LCD, Patent Abstract, Touchscreen Liquid-crystal Display, Pixel Element, Telecom & Utilities, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-07
- Move over, iPhone: touchscreen BlackBerry imminent, clues say
- A new BlackBerry Patent application published this morning strongly points to a touchscreen BlackBerry- similar to the touchscreen iPhone. It's also important to note that although most BlackBerry Patent applications are only published 18 months after they are filed, this one has only...
- Tags: Touch Screen, Apple iPhone, Disclosure, Electrode, Voltage, RIM BlackBerry, LCD, Patent Abstract, Touchscreen Liquid-crystal Display, Pixel Element, Telecom & Utilities, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-07
- How about a Skype phone for $6.99? Well, here you go!
- Over on sellout.woot, a Yahoo! Shopping partner, there's a US Robotics USB Internet Phone on sale for $6.99 plus $5 shipping. That's no typo. Even comes with a 90-day warranty. As the site notes, the US Robotics USR9601 USB Internet Phone works on...
- Tags: U.S. Robotics, USB 1.1, Phone, Skype Technologies S.A., Skype Phone, LCD, USB, Telecom & Utilities, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-06
- 47% are planning to buy an LCD, 33% will buy a plasma HDTV
- 60% households who are planning to purchase a new television in the next six months are planning to buy an HDTV set, according to CTAM. Of those households, 47% are planning to purchase a LCD set, 33% planning to purchase a plasma HDTV set. Digital cable households who are planning...
- Tags: Plasma, HDTV, LCD, Household, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Monitors & Displays, Cable, Network Technology, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Components, Telecommunications, Networking, NB
- Blog posts 2008-01-24
- Build a polycarbonate all-in-one 22-inch LCD PC
- The last time George Ou built a wooden all-in-one 19-inch LCD PC, his family wanted it in their kitchen and his mother wanted it in hers. So to keep everyone happy, he built his mother another one -- out of 3/16th-inch jet-black polycarbonate. Here's a look at the construction details...
- Tags: Mother, PC, LCD, Monitors & Displays, Desktops, Hardware, Components
- Download resources 2008-01-23
- (Photos: The polycarbonate all-in-one LCD PC)
- (Photos: The polycarbonate all-in-one LCD PC)VERY attractive!I really like the wire treatment and how squared off the corners are. And that grand piano sheen combined with the overall look really gets me going.RE: (Photos: The polycarbonate all-in-one LCD PC)Excellent article, thanks!is it possibleis it possible to use...
- Tags: Monitors & displays, Matrox, LCD, LCD PC, torch, photograph, PC
- Discussion threads 2008-01-22
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