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Go Outside and Play!
- By sandv blog
- Posted June 19, 2008
Your mom always told you to go outside and play. Well, a recent study proves that dear old mom was right. Compared to watching outdoor scenes on HDTV, nothing reduces stress as much as the real thing.

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LG Bedazzlers HDTV - Bling TV
- By sandv blog
- Posted June 11, 2008
LG wasn't content with their truly attractive Scarlet HDTV models. They just had to take it to the next level. Well, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, yada, yada, but have they gone over the top this time?

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Sony's Seven New BRAVIA Sets
- By sandv blog
- Posted June 6, 2008
The Sony Bravia line is expanding with bold new models, and new sizes in previous product lines. These new Bravia XBR flat-panel LCD HDTVs bring the total number of Bravia TVs to thirty, with sizes that range from 19 inches all the way up to 70 inches.

The new releases are divided into three categories.

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LG Stretching the Limits
- By sandv blog
- Posted June 4, 2008
Just when you finally figured out the difference between 16 x 9 and 4 x 3 screen, LG goes and shakes things up again. Maybe it's best that these new monitors are only available in the UK for now.

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Kudos to KURO
- By sandv blog
- Posted May 7, 2008
If black is the new black, then Pioneer is just about the hippest manufacturer in town. While their previous models of KURO plasmas were the talk of the town, the newest models, the Elite PDP-5020FD and PDP-6020FD can produce even blacker blacks, the ultimate test for any plasma display.

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Sharp: Thin, Wireless and X-rated!
- By sandv blog
- Posted April 30, 2008
Think you can’t have a flat-panel TV because you can’t get the wiring from your components to your TV? Is lack of running an HDMI cable keeping your Blu-ray player blue? Today, Sharp announced, “Yes!” or probably more accurately, “Hai!” to wireless HD video transmission.

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LG's Scarlet Letters
- By sandv blog
- Posted April 30, 2008
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Make Your Thin TV a Wall-Hugger
- By sandv blog
- Posted April 1, 2008
HDTV sets keep getting thinner. Hitachi's UltraThin line is only 1.5-inches thick. If you're the type that must have the world's thinnest TV, you probably want to show off its slim profile with a wall-mount. However, there aren't many (as far as we know, any) wall mounts available that take advantage of super-thin TV sets.

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DLP: Tales from the Dark Side
- By sandv blog
- Posted October 4, 2007
At the CEDIA Expo, Texas Instruments announced the latest generation of its Digital Micromirror Device (DMD) technology, dubbed DarkChip 4. The company claims even better reproduction of black and dark grays than achieved by its current DarkChip 3 devices (never mind DarkChip 2 and the original, now antediluvian DarkChip).

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Panasonic's Idea for Mike: World's Biggest Plasma
- By sandv blog
- Posted July 26, 2007
That would be Mike Bloomberg (at left in photo), a.k.a. Michael R. Bloomberg, a.k.a. The Mayor of New York City. And the TV is indeed the world's largest 1080p plasma set, a.k.a.

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Always Worrying About the Wrong Thing
- By sandv blog
- Posted June 26, 2007
Not always, really, but a lot. So I like it when people start talking about something I consider important but largely overlooked — color, for example.

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HDTV and DVRs Expect Major Growth
- By sandv blog
- Posted June 21, 2007
USA Today reports that PricewaterhouseCoopers is predicting that HDTV sets will be in 59% of homes in 2011, up from 12.7% at the close of 2006. As for DVRs, 39% of all homes will have 'em in 2011, up from 11.8% in 2006.

Coolness. Me, I've got three HDTVs with three corresponding DVRs in my house (so far). How about you? —Mike Mettler

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