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California adopts tough new requirements on HDTV energy use: Visionary or draconian?

For years, California has had the nation's toughest emissions standards to counter the pollution from its massive volume of cars and trucks. Now it's turned its sites on the energy consumption coming from its residents' HDTVs. The result? Earlier this week, the California Energy Commission unanimously passed new standards to...

Tags: California, HDTV, Standards, Quality, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Business Operations, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-11-21

Vizio announces Black Friday deals on its LCD HDTVs, Blu-ray player

You may have noticed that Vizio hasn't been prominent in the Black Friday ads leaked online from Best Buy, Target, or Wal-Mart (save for a 26-inch LCD HDTV early special through Wal-Mart). But that doesn't mean the company, which has remained the number-one shipper of HDTVs in the U.S. for...

Tags: Costco, HDTV, LCD, 1080p, Blu-ray, Vizio, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-11-19

Wal-mart Black Friday deals on HDTVs, Blu-ray players begin to leak online

Walmart Black Friday AdThe teasing is over...you can now find Walmart's complete black Friday ad online days ahead of schedule!http://tgiblackfriday.com/Walmart

Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., HDTV

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Full Wal-Mart Black Friday ad hits Internet, complete with Samsung, Sony HDTV deals

If you read yesterday's post, you already know about a few of Wal-Mart's Black Friday home theater deals, including a $78 Blu-ray player. At long last, Wal-Mart's full Black Friday ad has hit the Web, and it includes some of those brand names that the earlier deals lacked. ...

Tags: Sony Corp., Home Theater, Advertisement, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Internet, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., HDTV, LCD, 1080p, Home Entertainment, Tv & Home Theater, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-11-18

Wal-mart Black Friday deals on HDTVs, Blu-ray players begin to leak online

As the 800-pound gorilla of retailing, Wal-mart can get away with teasing consumers before Black Friday, offering some early deals a couple of weeks ago, as well as even releasing some more today, like a 26-inch 720p Vizio LCD HDTV for $248 that will be available starting Saturday. Even worse,...

Tags: Plasma, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., HDTV, Blu-ray, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-11-17

Black Friday '09: Motorola Cliq, $79; Samsung 50" plasma HDTV, $699; Sony 15" dual core laptop, $399

Black Friday '09: Motorola Cliq, $79; Samsung 50" plasma HDTV, $699; Sony 1I'd love to score one of the 32" lcd tv's and that $399 sony laptop but I'll be out of town on Friday. That will make it a bit hard to travel with those items :-/If it's a...

Tags: Digital cameras, Digital photography, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Monitors & displays, dual-core, Sony Corp., HDTV, Motorola Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Black Friday

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Black Friday '09: Motorola Cliq, $79; Samsung 50" plasma HDTV, $699; Sony 15" dual core laptop, $399

Have you seen ZDNet's Ultimate Guide to Black Friday 2009? We've added even more deals. by Andrew Nusca

Tags: Sony Corp., Dual-core, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., HDTV, Laptop Computer, Motorola Inc., Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-11-17

Zvox Z-Base 575

Photo gallery:Zvox Z-Base 575Sound bars feel like they've been around forever now, but they're still a relatively new product; consider that the groundbreaking Yamaha YSP-1 debuted back at CES 2005. Since then, the exterior design of the units hasn't changed much, with the vast majority still consisting of a long...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Zvox Z-Base 575, HDTV, TV

Product reviews 2009-11-16

Newegg offers some early Black Friday deals on LCD HDTVs

Online retailer Newegg got its start and still does a great business in selling computer components to DIYers, but it's expanded its reach and revenue by selling all sorts of electronics—even some small kitchen appliances. Of course, that roster of products includes HDTVs, and Newegg, like Wal-mart before it, is...

Tags: Newegg.com, HDTV, LCD, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-11-16

Best Buy Black Friday ad leaks online. Here are the HDTV and Blu-ray deals.

Not worth my time.So i looked up Samsungs 46' LED TV, the one thats will be selling for $1600 at Best Buy on BF. Right now its going for $1847 brand new and free shipment. Doing the math thats a $247 savings. Seems like alot right. Well, when you factor...

Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., HDTV, advertisement

Discussion threads 2009-11-14

Best Buy Black Friday ad leaks online. Here are the HDTV and Blu-ray deals.

For electronics fans, the Holy Grail of Black Friday ads is the one from Best Buy, which can list more deals on laptops and home theater stuff than general retailers like Wal-mart and Target can squeeze into their circulars. Unfortunately, those deals are never as good as you hope—is this...

Tags: Sony Corp., Best Buy Co. Inc., Advertisement, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., HDTV, Blu-ray, Home Entertainment, Tv & Home Theater, Managed Hosting, TVs, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-11-14

Zvox Z-Base 525

Photo gallery:Zvox Z-Base 525Surround sound and its accouterments tend to dominate a living room, requiring an AV receiver, several speakers, stands, and wires to make the whole thing work. That's why many people choose to skip surround sound, opting instead for the tinny acoustics of their TV speakers. Single-speaker solutions...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Zvox Z-Base 525, speaker, HDTV, TV

Product reviews 2009-11-11

Eco-friendly Sony HDTV turns off when you leave the room

Sony says its KDL-VE5 series is "eco-friendly," and backs it up by incorporating something quite simple into the set: a "presence sensor" that automatically turns it off when you leave the room. by Andrew Nusca

Tags: Sony Corp., HDTV, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-11-09

Wal-mart preempts Black Friday with HDTV specials this Saturday

China made productsYES all we need is more 'Made In China' to get the economy churning....Bring it home to 'China' no longer USA because we are like Rome we manufacture nothing, we import everything and borrowing TRILLIONS from China.How long will this last I would say as long as they...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, HDTV, manufacturing, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Wal-mart preempts Black Friday with HDTV specials this Saturday

Every year, retailers' ads for Black Friday—the day after Thanksgiving and the unofficial starting of the holiday shopping season—manage to leak out a few weeks beforehand this year being no exception. And every year, said retailers freak out when the ads appear online, perhaps fearing that competitors could...

Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Retail Company, HDTV, 1080p, Retail, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-11-04

Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Top Five HDTVs

Whatever the size of your wallet, every living room should have a respectable television set. Good news: HDTVs are cheaper, bigger and better than ever. Here are my top five picks for this year. Splurge: Samsung UNB8500 Series ...

Tags: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., HDTV, Video, 1080p, TVs, Corporate Communications, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-11-01

Men watch more high-def than women--and other things about HDTV you probably already know

Fits our familyFirst HDTV two years ago and the second last year. Jumped at the $100 HD DVD Black Friday 07. I'm a "jump in when the price and utility are reasonable" person but definitely a techie with a strong engineering background. Everything in the post above fits my...

Tags: Gender and diversity, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Games, women, HDTV

Discussion threads 2009-10-31

Men watch more high-def than women--and other things about HDTV you probably already know

There was a time not too long ago when a lot of people bought an HDTV, brought it home, and started watched TV, all the while thinking they were watching in HD when they hadn't bothered to upgrade their cable or satellite package to make high-def programming available. Now viewers...

Tags: Men, Women, HDTV, HD, HD Drama, Gender And Diversity, Cable, TVs, Network Technology, Tv & Home Theater, Human Resources, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Networking, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-10-31

Is HDTV turning Americans into hockey fans?

I went to see a fight......and a hockey game broke out!HockeyHockey fundamentally is a very entertaining fast paced team sport that is being ruined by the allowed fighting. I am not against "fighting" sports (boxing, mixed martial arts etc), but not only does the fighting in hockey totally fail to...

Tags: Team management, team, HDTV

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

Is HDTV turning Americans into hockey fans?

Hockey, the national pastime of our neighbors up north, has always been the number-four sport in the U.S., save for pockets of the country with a puck pedigree (the Northeast, the northern Midwest). While the league expanded south and west during the 1990s, and managed to have Fox broadcast Stanley...

Tags: Network, HDTV, NHL, Sport, Games, Cable, Tv & Home Theater, Networking, Personal Technology, Telecommunications, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-10-27