Category Archives: HDTV

Black Friday shoppers go gaga for TVs

As soon as the doors opened at midnight for Black Friday, Best Buy shoppers rushed for doorbuster deals on LCD TVs.  Doorbuster deals on LCD televisions drew crowds of Black Friday shoppers to big box stores on Thanksgiving evening. And for Isabel Baez, the wait outside a Best Buy (BBY, Fortune 500) in northern New Jersey, started long earlier. At … Continue reading

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New HD DVD Format, Cheaper than Blu-ray

London based New Medium Enterprises (NME) has developed an HD DVD format that they claim to be the “world’s first low-cost True High Definition solution utilizing today’s Red Laser Technology.” NME markets the new HD technology under the name HD VMD. The company states that, “VMD technology is designed to create a disc with many information layers. The current 4-layer … Continue reading

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Japan’s Pioneer to stop making plasma panels, warns of FY loss

Japan’s Pioneer Corp said Friday it will stop making plasma panels amid intense competition and will instead outsource the production of plasma panels for its television sets. The Japanese maker of car navigation systems and audio equipment said it will start buying plasma panels from Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd (NYSE:MC) , the world’s largest consumer electronics maker, but did … Continue reading

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Panasonic’s 150-inch plasma TV part of Japan’s push at CES

Japan Inc. will put on the hard sell at the Consumer Electronics Show next week. Panasonic is expected to unveil a 150-inch plasma television during a keynote speech Monday by Toshihiro Sakamoto, president of the Panasonic Audio Visual Networks Company. (Matsushita Electric goes by Panasonic in the U.S.) Sakamoto, a new speaker to the CES keynote circuit, is also expected … Continue reading

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More Price Drops in Store for High-Definition Players

As the format war wages on, it will wage on with cheaper players. According to Home Media Magazine, a new study reveals that the price drops for HD DVD and Blu-Ray players will likely continue through the year 2011. The study, conducted by Understanding & Solutions, reveals that the prices for high-def players will be below $300, consistently, by next … Continue reading

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