Getting a charge out of plasma TV
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Larry Weber has been a leading force behind the big-screen TV tech. Now he's trying to tame its power consumption.Photos: A history of plasma panels
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Popping a gadget into a cradle to recharge it used to mean downtime, but these days chargers are doing double duty, keeping your portable devices playing even when they're charging.
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Targeted by broadcasters The plug has been pulled on TVCatchup.com, a legally questionable web-based personal video recorder service, that allowed users to hoard UK TV shows online for free.â¦
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Hey, how about generating power from trash disposal? A Florida county plans to use plasma arcs to turn garbage into gas and use by products to make electricity to sell back to the grid. Skeptics doubt landfills will disappear.
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It's not too early to start thinking about how to ensure your television won't go dark when analog broadcasts shut down in 2009.Photos: Converting from analog to digital TV
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MIT researchers said Thursday they will soon be able to charge a computer or cell-phone battery from across a room, perhaps making the annoyance of wires or dead batteries a thing of the past.
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It could be a single malfunctioning power supply. Or, from the other side of the glass, it could be a portent of doom for a technology that would make good use of all those TV channels that no one's broadcasting on, for wireless networking.
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LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Nearly half of British men surveyed would give up sex for six months in return for a 50-inch plasma TV, a survey -- perhaps unsurprisingly carried out for a firm selling televisions -- said on Friday.
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Just how much power does that new big-screen TV drain? Take a look at power consumption levels of some common high-tech appliances.
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com December 22, 2004, 1:59 PM PT. Sony Electronics issued a statement Wednesday refuting reports that it&#39;s getting out of the plasma TV business.
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In less than two years, plasma TVs have gone from dominant format to afterthought, then back to a viable option.
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Straight from CES, we have laser TVs, concept TVs, and gaming LCD TVs, as well as an onslaught of new plasma and LCD TVs ready to invade your living room. Take a look.
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The most desired electronic gift item for this holiday season is a plasma TV. You might, however, want to consider something that wasn't even in the running: L.C.D.
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You need more than an Xbox 360 and a plasma-screen TV to exploit the latest video games for their full entertainment value. These days, you also need a friend.
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Plasma television technology has a  bright future despite an onslaught on its home turf from rival  LCD (liquid crystal display) TVs, makers of plasma screens told  Reuters at the IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin.
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SCIENTISTS have sounded the death knell for the plug and power lead. In a breakthrough that sounds like something out of Star Trek, they have discovered a way of 'beaming' power across a room into a light bulb, mobile phone orlaptop computer without wires or cables.
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Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.  005930.KS will release an 80-inch plasma television set, a  portable music player that runs for 42 hours on one battery and  a DVD recorder that copies one disc directly from another, the  company said on Wednesday.