Tag: television
LG launch full 3D range, including the LX9900 3D LED TV and BX580 3D Blu-ray player
LG have today unleashed their portfolio of 3D tech to the masses. From May, home cinema enthusiasts will be able to pick up the LG LX9900 Full LED 3D Ready TV and BX580 3D Blu-ray player. The LX9900 is…
Sharp launch Aquos LED LCD TV series with Quad Pixel Technology
Sharp have today launched their new range of Aquos LED LCD TVs. While most of the industry's energies right now are going into the big 3D push, Sharp are looking to refine the current HD standards by pioneering a new…
Shopaholics at Westfield get Sky 3D TV demo next week
Traipsing through the cavernous Westfield shopping centre might not be as arduous a task as it sounds next week, thanks to a special 3D TV trial that Sky are running. Sky will be handing out 3D glasses to shopaholics visiting…
Should I buy an OLED TV or stick with LCD and plasma?
There’s a new display technology in town — OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) — and it could be coming to a large TV near you very soon.
Plenty of big-name manufacturers have already produced OLED TVs, and others are promising to have sets available within the next couple of years.
OLED has a lot of very attractive characteristics meaning it can has the potential to power large, bright, thin, energy-efficient televisions. Then again, LCD and plasma TVs currently rule the roost and are no pushovers when it comes to features.
Should you buy an OLED TV? Let’s take a look…
LG releases M7WD television monitors
LG, maker of many a quality display, has turned its attention to a range of “television monitors” called the M7WD series. These TV monitors are aimed at people that want to do multiple things with one display, including television, PC usage, high-def content and radio.
The M7WD range has a whopping contrast ratio of 20,000:1, and packs SCART, DVI and HDMI. It’s also got stereo 3W speakers, though if you’re serious about your home entertainment then you’ll almost certainly want to replace these with external speakers. There’s a 5ms response time, and 1920 x 1080 resolution, which is higher than most displays this size.
The displays are available in 19″ and 22″ sizes, feature a 170 degree viewing angle and are in stores right now.
Radio Times launches iPhone application
There are a few things that always feel like ‘home’ for me, and now I think about it, they’re all ridiculously middle-class. Croissants, Radio 4, Earl Gray tea, “Organic” apples and – most of all – a copy of the Radio Times sat on the sofa.
Well, the BBC’s in-house listings magazine has just launched an iPhone application, presumably so that you can feel at home wherever you are. It’s not free – it’ll cost you £1.79, but for extensive and accurate listings, recommendations and reviews for ever after, that’s not actually too bad.
The application wasn’t designed in-house by the BBC. It was put together by a US company called tvCompass. The BBC say that this is just another step in its quest to get as much content as possible available to iPod and iPhone users. What about the rest of us that aren’t converts to the cult of Mac, Auntie?
Sky launches mobile TV service for 3 customers
If you’re dead keen on squinting at a tiny phone screen to see watch TV, and a 3 subscriber, then you’ll be excited by the announcement this morning that Sky’s Mobile TV service will be coming to a handset near you in the near future. You’ll get Sky Sports channels, Sky News, At The Races and CNN, for a monthly fee of £5, or a daily fee of £1.
It seems that you’ll need a data package to receive the content, too, which will set you back £2.50 a month for 10MB. I suspect, however, that you’ll need substantially more than 10MB if you’re going to watch the service for more than a few minutes.
National Geographic to start making games
In yet another sign that games are rapidly taking over from movies as the #1 entertainment medium, veteran nature documentary producer National Geographic has decided that it fancies a shot at making the next “Hunting Unlimited 2009”.
Curiously, though, the company has decided that it’s only going to develop for a very limited set of platforms – naming Mac and iPhone specifically. Is there an Apple-National Geographic deal that I don’t know about?
The first title, “Herod’s Lost Tomb”, is already available on Mac, iPhone and Windows. It’s about the biblical King Herod, who reportedly wasn’t too fond of baby boys. More titles are on the way, including “Sudoku Traveler: China”, “National Geographic: Africa”, and the intriguingly titled “From the Bottom Up”.
National Geographic Channel (via Macworld)
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Toshiba launches REGZA ZV Series upscaling TV
Despite the fact that most people have HDTVs, very few actually view HD content on them, with 99% of TV programs still broadcast in standard definition. What’s the solution? Well, according to Toshiba, it’s “buy another TV!”. Buy the ZV, to be precise. It’s an upscaling television.
It uses a “powerful cell processor algorithm” to turn standard definition TV into something a little closer to full HD, mainly by finding edges and sharpening them. It also tries to improve depth and texture, and even though the result won’t be as good as full-HD signal, it’s better than nothing.
Sky adds iPlayer listings to Sky Player, but Discovery doesn't want anything to do with the Internet
Sky has just added listings from rival BBC’s iPlayer to its own content-catchup service, Sky Player. The new sections carry BBC branding, but just consist of links to play the content in BBC’s own iPlayer environment…
