ZDNet Resources
- 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
- 180 mln flat panel TVs to sell globally by 2012
- Demand for flat panel televisions is expected to more than double to 180 mln units by 2012, driven by strong sales in China and the United States, Japan Electronics and Information Technology Association said. Demand for LCD TVs is likely to reach 155 mln units in 5 years, up from...
- Tags: Flat Panel, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Monitors & Displays, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Components, AM
- Blog posts 2008-02-22
- flat panel TV Screensaver (exe)
- View awe inspiring imagery of mountains and flowing water on a 65-inch flat panel TV screen. Comes with an incased analog and digital clock that sits atop the flat panel monitor. Its equivalent to watching a movie in your living room. All images are high quality and crystal clear. Viewing...
- Tags: Imagery, Flat Panel, Screensaver, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components
- Software downloads 2007-11-30
- At $1267, you won't do much better than Panasonic's TH-42PZ700U hi-def plasma display
- With Halloween finally behind us, the sound of sleigh bells can be faintly heard in the distance and many of you are probably preparing to drop some coin on gadgets this year. Some for yourself (given the sales that will be taking place). Some of those gadgets will be...
- Tags: Circuit City Stores Inc., Flat Panel, Panasonic, Plasma, LCD, Electronique, Monitors & Displays, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Components, Personal Technology, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-11-05
- See new tech from Japan before it hits the U.S.
- Think CES is the ultimate consumer electronics show? Think again. Japan's Ceatec just wrapped up, and CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos brought back footage of some of the best tech we've yet to see in the U.S. Take a look at what's on the horizon.
- Tags: Consumer Electronics Show, Tech, caetec, japan, tokyo, ces, gadget, technology, consumer, sony, virtual reality, television, tv, lcd, flat panel, robot, michael kanellos, phone, cell, camera
- Videos 2007-10-09
- Quad-HD 1600p flat panel has oodles of inputs
- Quad-HD 1600p flat panel has oodles of inputsWish it had DisplayPort too. :-(This looks like a great display but was hoping DisplayPort was another input. It's not clear if HDMI or DisplayPort will be the next generation PC graphics output but bets are that the PC industry is moving to...
- Tags: Monitors & displays, DisplayPort, Quad-HD, flat panel
- Discussion threads 2007-10-05
- Quad-HD 1600p flat panel has oodles of inputs
- Wow, that's a lot of inputs! We've seen 30" flat panel monitors before, but nothing quite like this. Thanks to its 1 trillion operations/sec Taranex video processing chip, the new "Quad HD" display from Gateway can swallow your "old fashioned" 1080p, 720p, or even (gasp!) 480i...
- Tags: Flat Panel, HDMI, Anti-theft, Video, Corporate Communications, Monitors & Displays, Security, Marketing, Hardware, Components, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2007-10-04
- Sony KDL-46XBR4
- A couple of years ago Sony abandoned plasma and bet the farm on LCD, and since then the company has consistently produced the best-performing flat-panel LCDs available, at least according to our tests. Of course, we've always seen better picture quality in plasma sets, and this year is no exception,...
- Tags: Monitors & displays, Sony Corp., Sony KDL-46XBR4, LCD, flat panel
- Product reviews 2007-09-27
- ViewSonic VG2030wm - flat-panel display - TFT - 20
- ViewSonic's 20-inch VG2030wm wide-screen LCD monitor compares well against similar displays we've seen from the likes of HP and NEC. And also like the NEC, it lacks HDCP compliance, making it unable to play protected HD video content. With a price tag around $250, this monitor brushes very close in...
- Tags: Monitors & displays, Performance management, CNET Labs, flat panel, TFT, casing, ViewSonic VG2030wm, ViewSonic Corp., monitor
- Product reviews 2007-08-27
- Samsung introduces flat-panel wireless TV
- Take a closer look at Samsung's new 50-inch TVZDNet Executive Editor David Berlind talks to Samsung's senior managerfor plasma TV marketing, Bill Dickey, about the company's new FPT 508450-inch wireless flat-panel TV. The package includes an audio and videoreceiver that transmits information to the plasma display. Thetelevision is due out...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Monitors & displays, TV, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., flat panel, wireless
- Videos 2007-07-17
- Samsung to untether its plasma flat panels from all but the power cord
- While spying some new hard drives and a solid state ultra mobile PC at Samsung's gadgetfest in NYC earlier this week, I also spotted some cool flat panel stuff that Samsung has on the way. One of those was the FPT 5084: a 50-inch wireless plasma flat panel...
- Tags: Wired &, Wireless, Video, Personal Technology, Hardware Infrastructure, General, Entertainment
- Blog posts 2007-07-13
- Reading the tech tea leaves via Best Buy, Circuit City
- Best Buy and Circuit City each reported earnings and provided some color on the technology sectors health. Key takeaways: Vista demand seems fairly strong and flat-panel TV prices are crumbling. Comparing Best Buy and Circuit City is a bit of...
- Tags: Software Infrastructure, Printers, Personal Technology, Hardware Infrastructure, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-04
- Flat-panel TV makers sing the discount blues
- Flat-panel TV makers sing the discount bluesSame Old philosophyget as much out of the consumer while you can as long as you can and introduce price reductions and features as a purely generous and wonderful thing of the corporations doing on consumers behalf. Carrot, stick, carrot, BIG swack with...
- Tags: Monitors & displays, TVs, TV & Home Theater, NOW HERE, Vizio, TV, flat panel
- Discussion threads 2007-03-07
- HDTV flat panels go wireless
- Hang your HD flat panel TVs without wiresAt CES 2007, ZDNet Executive Editor David Berlind talks to executivesfrom TZero and Open Interface about their companies' solutions totransmit audio and video wirelessly throughout the home--usingultra-wide band devices and enhanced bluetooth technologies.
- Tags: Monitors & displays, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Wi-Fi, flat panel, HDTV, wireless
- Videos 2007-01-24
- CES battleground: Is LCD or plasma better when picking hi-def big screen flat panels?
- While I was preparing to come out here to CES in Las Vegas, a lot of people were asking what it was Id be paying attention to while I was out here. When I mentioned one of the topics -- big screen flat panels (henceforth referred to as BSFPs) --...
- Tags: Monitors & displays, flat panel, BSFP, Consumer Electronics Show, LCD
- Blog posts 2007-01-08
- Photos: Sony eyes OLED TVs
- Company is looking at ways to bring flat-panel TVs based around organic light-emitting diodes.
- Tags: Sony Corp., diode, flat panel, light-emitting diode, organic light-emitting diode, photograph, TV
- Image galleries 2007-01-08
- Sony KDL-46XBR2
- Editors' note: Since this review was first published, we have adjusted the ratings and given this product an Editors' Choice award based on its performance compared to subsequent competing products.Flat-panel LCD and plasma HDTVs are locked in a heated war to get your hard-earned dollars, and it's getting hotter as...
- Tags: Monitors & displays, Sony KDL-46XBR2, LCD, flat panel, Sony Corp.
- Product reviews 2006-09-21
- Photo: Panasonic's 103-inch TV
- Massive flat-panel television measures about 7.8 by 4.5 feet and weighs a mammoth 474 pounds.
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, flat panel, TV, Panasonic, photograph
- Image galleries 2006-07-10
- Photo: Panasonic's 103-inch TV
- Massive flat-panel television measures about 7.8 by 4.5 feet and weighs a mammoth 474 pounds.
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, flat panel, TV, Panasonic, photograph
- Image galleries 2006-07-10
- Carbon nanotube TV trials on horizon
- Carbon nanotube TV trials on horizonDon't you just LOVE Competion.I'm looking forward to these and the large scale OLED TVs as well. When they get the 100 inch models down to about $1,000.00 I'll buy a few.Please make these TVs......LCD and Plasma TVs produce at best, a mediocre image. ...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Monitors & displays, TV, flat panel, Carbon nanotube TV, nanotube TV, carbon nanotube
- Discussion threads 2006-03-20
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