Health alert over flat screen TVs
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Workers in factories that make flat screen televisions could suffer long-term health damage, say scientists.
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Appointments via telly Doctors' offices across the country are beginning to offer appointment bookings via TV set-top boxes and mobiles, adding to a list of network services for non-surfers or those not owning a computer.â¦
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Digital, high-definition television can be a complex enough business in its own right. But the shift from analog to digital now also means a shift from fat to flat. -The Washington Post
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As you may recall from my last entry, I exchanged my cable box from a Scientific Atlanta 8000HD to a Scientific Atlanta 8300HD.  The latter, new box continues to output a signal from the cable connection even if I have it in HDTV mode.  It probably also continues to output AVI and S-Video.  This finally opened up a way for me to use my cable box with a MythTV box.   Thanks to a serious (and mysterious) spinal injury (I say mysterious because I haven't figured out how I did the damage), I can only work on the project for a half hour at a time, at most.  I have discovered some interesting things in those short segments.
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Scientists are developing clothing embedded with sensors which they say will be able to monitor your health.
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The words high-definition TV are enough to give many consumers the sweats. We&#39;ll help you relax and buy smarter. Flat or fat? EDTV or HDTV?
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By Hiawatha Bray, The Boston Globe  Sep. 11--THE NEW CENTER OF ATTENTION: Millions of us flip on the TV set  after a hard day's work.    But a large and growing number reach instead for the power buttons on  their home computers.
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16/11/2004 Junk food adverts have been banned on TV before 9pm in an attempt to fight Britainâs obesity crisis. Health Secretary Dr John Reid believes the move is necessary to protect youngsters watching early evening television.
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THE first health warning for people who work with computers has followed a study that shows an increased risk of glaucoma in short-sighted people.
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Voice over Internet Protocol may be about to enter your living room.
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A flat screen TV started broadcasting a distress signal, drawing the attention of emergency and law enforcement officials.
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Toshiba plans to drop out of the plasma display panel television market and next summer will start producing surface conduction electron emitter display (SED) panels for flat panel televisions with 40-inch or larger screens.
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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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Could your TV call the Air Force? Apparently, Toshiba flat-screens can! Tv doesn&#39;t get much better than this... &quot;An Oregon man discovered earlier this month that his year-old Toshiba Corporation flat-screen
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More than a third of Americans use their computers while they're watching TV. That means big opportunities for the TV industry and for multitasking viewers
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Beginning Feb. 18, 2009, television stations will stop broadcasting analog signals. An older, non-digital television without cable or satellite service will need a special converter box to receive a picture.
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A novel wireless EKG monitor could make diagnosing heart conditions much easier.