Westinghouse has joined the early announcer club and let loose with details about their 2012 HDTV lineup ahead of CES 2012. They have models ranging from 19″ all the way up to 70″ this year. Westinghouse may be a second-tier manufactuer, but it would seem that they are looking at working their way up the ranks a bit with this […]
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All right, guys! It’s time to take a detour into Apple rumor land. I’ve expressed my reservations before about devoting too much virtual ink to the rumors swirling around Apple’s plans to become a television manufacturer, but the USA Today has put together an extensive write-up based on claims made by a former employee and information from a wide variety […]
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LG is going to have an exciting booth at CES this year. We heard recently about the 55″ OLED TV they are planning on showing at CES 2012, and now comes word that LG is also going to be showing off an 84″ 4K 3D LCD TV. As with the OLED TV, showing off a TV at CES is absolutely […]
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Seven LCD panel manufacturers, including heavy-hitters such as Samsung, Sharp, and Hitachi, have reached a settlement that will see them paying out $553 million in response to price fixing allegations made in class action lawsuits brought by eight state attorney generals. The companies allegedly conspired to keep panel prices inflated from 1999 to 2006 with monthly meetings among executives to […]
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Sony has not been shy about talking about the financial difficulties their storied television business has faced in recent years. The prescription has included a restructuring of the TV arm of the company and a critical reexamination of the various agreements that the company has entered into over the years, many of which have been financially disadvantageous for Sony. The […]
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Few home theater technologies have the power to induce weak knees and a whole lot of unsightly drool better than OLED panels. It has been held up as the holy grail of HDTV panel technologies; the black levels of plasma, the brightness of LCD, unparalleled thinness, and minuscule power consumption. Reality hasn’t quite kept up with the hype, but that doesn’t make […]
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Like many enthusiasts, I’ve been waiting to find out how Sharp’s Elite HDTVs would stack up against their adopted, and now cast off, sibling; the Pioneer Kuro. Fortunately, it looks like Sharp is serious about bringing a legitimate successor to market and not just brand engineering, but still fails to secure a clear win versus the benchmark set back in […]
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Sony recently announced that they are working to restructure their television business as it has been a bit of a drag on their bottom line over the last couple of years. Things may be even grimmer than suspected. Sony CEO Howard Stringer recently sat down with the Wall Street Journal and intimated that Sony loses money on every TV it sells. If […]
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Sony has suffered through several years of rocky financials. One of Howard Stringer’s primary goals when he became CEO of Sony was to restructure the company to become competitive against more nimble international competitors. Sony’s TV division has been one of the biggest drags on the company’s bottom line, and it looks like it is finally starting to get the […]
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Whether you choose to believe it or not, at least the committee is smart enough to plan the specs ahead of today’s technology. As Kurzwell and Vinge have perdicted, technology now changes so fast that if you’re building something with more than a 9 month release cycle, you need to plan to use components that don’t yet exist. It seems […]
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