'Time Machine' TVs Unveiled
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The home theater sets are the first to include integrated DVRs. In Gear Factor.
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Patients will be able to book GP appointments through their television sets under a system being piloted.
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The big, bulky tube television is ready to get a leaner look--and to challenge flat panels at their own game. Meanwhile, TV tuners are headed to new PCs.
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Texas Instruments is prepping a new single-chip solution designed to bring live broadcast television to mobile phones and other portable devices.
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Gadgeteers attending Vegas conference are getting an eyeful of sexy new high-end televisions.
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Sony Corporation will introduce eight new flat screen televisions, which drastically elevate three fundamental elements: picture clarity, audio fidelity and easy user-operation - all of which, allows the user to see all that is possible within the new
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Miniature mobile phones, which already double as cameras, Internet devices and music players, are poised to merge with the largest of home appliances, the television.
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Electronics maker unveils an 80-inch plasma display TV.
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Personal TV Channel system is making its debut at IFA consumer electronics show.
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New lineup of low-cost PCs includes with some multimedia capabilities.
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SED TVs, coming next year, will offer bright, CRT-like pictures in a thin package.
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(InfoWorld) - Even if you bought a TV in the last several months you may already feel like it's out of date. Your shiny new flat-screen arrives, you hook it up to the antenna and the first thing you see is a commercial for a bigger, better model. It might even have a cheaper price. It's the way things seem to work these days in the world of TVs. Things aren't likely to change any time soon. The latest buzz is around "100Hz" or "120Hz" technology, which relates to how often the image on the screen is refreshed or redrawn. The technology is already appearing in TVs, and if you haven't seen promotional stickers for it yet you probably will soon. Most TV sets today refresh the picture either 50 times per second (50Hz) or 60 times per second (60Hz) depending where in the world you live (different regions use different color formatting.) That rate is fine for most images, but when it comes to fast moving shows like sports events the images can appear blurry on an LCD (liquid crystal display) TV. Doubling the rate at which images are displayed, to 100 or 120 frames per second, makes for a better, more high-definition picture. The need to improve LCD TVs has been especially acute because their chief competitor, PDP (plasma display panel) TVs, don't have the same blurring problem. Compounding the issue is that screen sizes are getting bigger, so any imperfections are more noticeable, said Mina Naito, a spokeswoman for Sony. PDP makers have trumpeted their advantage for some time, but things may be about to change. Compared to previous LCD panels, the new 100Hz and 120Hz models are "a big improvement," said Hisakazu Torii, a TV industry analyst with DisplaySearch in Tokyo. Prototype panels with the faster refresh rate began appearing last year. At the FPD International 2006 show in Yokohama in October, Samsung ElectronicsÂ demonstrated images and text scrolling across just such a panel, and they appeared to move more smoothly than on existing LCD TVs. Then at theÂ Consumer Electronics ShowÂ in Las Vegas in January, Sony announced a 120Hz model with the Samsung screen for the U.S. market. The 70-inch LCD TV is launched this month and carries the hefty price of $33,000. Samsung plans a 70-inch set, also based on the Samsung panel, which will go on sale in the first half of this year. Competitors including Victor Co. of Japan (JVC) and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. (Panasonic) are also promoting 120Hz sets in Japan. The latest company to join the party isÂ Sharp, which last week said it would put five sets in its Aquos range on sale in Japan from March. The price runs from Â¥500,000 for a 42-inch model to Â¥1 million for a 65-inch model.
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Build-to-order Apple TV with a 160GB hard drive can hold up to 200 hours of video.
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Televisions big enough to cover  living-room walls and postage stamp-sized hard drives for  playing movies on mobile phones were among the gadgets unveiled  as the year's big U.S. electronics show kicked off on  Wednesday.
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Wega TVs, Vaio systems, DVD recorders and camcorder highlight HD product lineup.
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Microsoft has unveiled a series of handheld gadgets that can replay audio, movies and TV shows.
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The devices, which will be available soon, will offer better picture quality than earlier models.