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- Plasma
- One of four states of matter (solid, liquid, plasma and gas). The plasma state is a gas that is heated to the point where it begins to release electrons....
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- Gadget Gal's daily deals: Sony BRAVIA HDTV, 1TB Western Digital HDD, Magnavox HDTV
- not bad deals, but why would i bother with a 40inch LCD?Either go with plasma or wait till LEDs are mainstream. LCDs just cant compete with the contrast and color of plasmaDLP for that matter. LED is going to be cheaper to run and offer an even brighter...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Monitors & displays, HDTV, plasma, Magnavox HDTV, Sony Bravia HDTV, Gadget Gal, Sony Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-24
- Enigmo 2 1.0 (Mobile)
- In Enigmo 2, there are streams of falling water droplets, plasma, and laser beams, your goal is to get them into their container by using the various puzzle piece that you are given. Enigmo 2 goes to a new dimension as the puzzles are now three-dimensional. It also adds lots...
- Tags: Plasma, Mobile, Laser, Enigmo 2
- Software downloads 2009-09-22
- More details on HDI's 100-inch laser 3D TV: more energy-efficient, lower cost, walks on water
- California startup HDI is already creating buzz with the 100-inch laser-based 3D HDTV it's been demoing. If the claims made by the company rep I corresponded with today turn out to be true, we could be looking at a Holy Grail of sorts for the next generation of television. ...
- Tags: 3D, Plasma, Laser, HDI, HDI Prototype, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2009-09-21
- More electronics salespeople recommend Samsung, not Sony LCD HDTVs
- If you're wondering why Sony is losing share in the HDTV marketthat is, aside from its high priceshere's one possibility. According to a new study by J.D. Power and Associates, salespeople at electronics retailers are increasingly recommending Samsung sets, while they're less likely to recommend Sonys. In fact, Samsung LCDs...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Plasma, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., HDTV, Electronics, LCD, Monitors & Displays, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Hardware, Components, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2009-09-14
- Panasonic adds 58-inch, 65-inch plasma HDTVs to Viera V10 series
- With plasma prices plunging, the amount you used to spend on an upper-tier 50-inch set can now net you an even larger model. Panasonic has already added the 54-inch size to its 2009 lineup, and it's just introduced two larger sizes to its acclaimed Viera V10 series. These aren't the...
- Tags: Panasonic, Plasma, HDTV, Series, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Video On Demand (VoD), Ethernet, Monitors & Displays, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Networking, Hardware, Components, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2009-09-04
- Samsung PN50B860
- Photo gallery: Samsung PNB850/860 seriesIn the battle between plasma and LCD, the former generally comes out ahead in most areas of our picture quality tests, while the latter has dominated the less-important, but somehow costlier, dimension of depth. LCDs like the Samsung and Sony edge-lit models, and the...
- Tags: Monitors & displays, TVs, TV & Home Theater, PNB850/860 series, Samsung PNB850/860, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., plasma
- Product reviews 2009-08-25
- Samsung PN58B860
- Photo gallery: Samsung PNB850/860 seriesIn the battle between plasma and LCD, the former generally comes out ahead in most areas of our picture quality tests, while the latter has dominated the less-important, but somehow costlier, dimension of depth. LCDs like the Samsung and Sony edge-lit models, and the...
- Tags: Monitors & displays, TVs, TV & Home Theater, PNB850/860 series, Samsung PNB850/860, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., plasma
- Product reviews 2009-08-25
- Samsung PN58B850
- Photo gallery: Samsung PNB850/860 seriesIn the battle between plasma and LCD, the former generally comes out ahead in most areas of our picture quality tests, while the latter has dominated the less-important, but somehow costlier, dimension of depth. LCDs like the Samsung and Sony edge-lit models, and the...
- Tags: Monitors & displays, TVs, TV & Home Theater, PNB850/860 series, Samsung PNB850/860, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., plasma
- Product reviews 2009-08-25
- Samsung PN50B850
- Photo gallery: Samsung PNB850/860 seriesIn the battle between plasma and LCD, the former generally comes out ahead in most areas of our picture quality tests, while the latter has dominated the less-important, but somehow costlier, dimension of depth. LCDs like the Samsung and Sony edge-lit models, and the...
- Tags: Monitors & displays, TVs, TV & Home Theater, PNB850/860 series, Samsung PNB850/860, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., plasma
- Product reviews 2009-08-25
- Did crook lure victims with oven door disguised as plasma HDTV?
- I know plasmas are becoming popular again, but I didn't realize they were this "hot." According to this article in the San Francisco Chronicle, con artists are using fake HDTVs to lure marks in store parking lots and then robbing them. There may be nothing new about the techniquecrooks have...
- Tags: Plasma, Crook, HDTV, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2009-08-22
- Mid-week HDTV news: Plasmas are hot sellers (again); Vizio remains tops in LCDs; Sony delays next OLED set
- Sony LCDI can see why Sony's sales are dropping in the HD market. Their projection LCD's are a piece of junk and high priced. They don't even last a year before they require service, and usually completely fail at 5 years or less. I'd stay away from...
- Tags: Monitors & displays, LCD, Sony Corp., Vizio, organic light-emitting diode
- Discussion threads 2009-08-20
- Mid-week HDTV news: Plasmas are hot sellers (again); Vizio remains tops in LCDs; Sony delays next OLED set
- The economic downturn no doubt helped push some manufacturers like Pioneer out of the plasma market, but the recession may now be saving plasmas from the brink of obsolescence. According to a new report from Quixel Research, plasma HDTVs have zoomed to a huge gain in 2Q of 2009, with...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Plasma, Organic Light-emitting Diode, LCD, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2009-08-19
- Study: LCD viewing angles are too narrow, many TV features are marketing fluff
- Study: LCD viewing angles are too narrow, many TV features are marketing fluffAnd what normal people look at their TVs other than from a..straightforward viewing angle? Why the hell would i put my TV or look at it from a 45 degree viewing angle? Why would i do that? What...
- Tags: Monitors & displays, TVs, TV & Home Theater, DisplayMate, marketing, LCD, TV, Viewing Angle
- Discussion threads 2009-07-12
- Study: LCD viewing angles are too narrow, many TV features are marketing fluff
- Displaymate, the research company that provides the benchmarks for many publications' testing of monitor and HDTVs, has just performed a new side-by-side study in collaboration with market research firm Insight Media of LCD and plasmas from top manufacturers' 2008 lines, and its findings shouldn't be much of a surprise to...
- Tags: Marketing, Plasma, TV, LCD, Monitors & Displays, Tv & Home Theater, Hardware, Components, Personal Technology, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2009-07-12
- The Wall Street Journal shows the limits of its HDTV knowledge
- I can't really argue with some aspects of a new Wall St Journal story titled "Lower Price Tag for Plasma TVs Comes at Price, but if you already have some knowledge about HDTVs, don't expect much illumination from the article. There are several minor gaffes and omissions...
- Tags: Wall Street Journal, Plasma, Knowledge, HDTV, LCD, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- LG begins shipping first HDTVs with built-in Netflix capabilities
- Streaming media devices are a good idea, but a better idea is baking those features straight into your TV. While TV manufacturers have been pretty slow about integrating online services with their sets, they've finally started figuring out it's not too tough to add an Ethernet...
- Tags: NetFlix Inc., Plasma, built-In, LG Electronics Inc., HDTV, Streaming Media Device, TVs, Web Site Development, Tv & Home Theater, Web Technology, Managed Hosting, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Internet, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2009-06-14
- Samsung PN58B650
- Photo gallery: Samsung PN50B650With the exit of heavy-hitter Pioneer from the plasma racket, just three major makers remain: Panasonic, Samsung, and LG. The latter two offer significantly more models of LCD TVs than of plasma, however, and seemed more focused on LCD technology. Nonetheless Samsung's 2009 plasmas, if...
- Tags: Monitors & displays, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., plasma, Panasonic
- Product reviews 2009-06-12
- Samsung PN50B650
- Photo gallery: Samsung PN50B650With the exit of heavy-hitter Pioneer from the plasma racket, just three major makers remain: Panasonic, Samsung, and LG. The latter two offer significantly more models of LCD TVs than of plasma, however, and seemed more focused on LCD technology. Nonetheless Samsung's 2009 plasmas, if...
- Tags: Monitors & displays, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., plasma, Panasonic
- Product reviews 2009-06-12
- Death of an analog TV
- Greenpeace is predicting a spike in electronic waste as the U.S. shifts to digital television. CNET News follows a TV as it gets recycled and offers guidance on what to consider when getting rid of an old TV.
- Tags: CNET News, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, News, e-waste, televisions, hdtv, recycling, china, waste, tv's, plasma, lcd, california
- Videos 2009-06-09
- DisplayOp Free Edition 2.0 (Windows)
- DisplayOp is a software for the deployment of infotainment systems in catering, retail, museums, hotels, events / trade shows and many other areas. With DisplayOp control of your web browser to the multimedia content on any LCD or plasma displays - whatever town they are. DisplayOp is compatible with all...
- Tags: Plasma, Microsoft Windows, LCD, Alpha 2000, DisplayOp, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components
- Software downloads 2009-05-25
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