Here’s more good news and not-so-good news in the form of yet another world’s first for Samsung…they just announced a 3D plasma TV, model PAVV Cannes 450, but to get the 3D effect, the viewer still must wear those goofy 3D glasses.
The Cannes 450 provides 1000000:1 contrast ratio, something called a ‘Down Firing Speaker’ and [...]

Sony just keeps sending those 1seg portable TVs into Japan…must be a reasonably good market for them over there. Last year we made note of model XDV-100, and now 11 months later, we have on offer the new Bravia XDV-D500.
The XDV-D500 has a 3 inch 16:9 LCD screen, is a bit smaller at [...]

The Bordeaux line of LCD TVs has fairly sold well, and so Samsung is adding to the product model lineup. Samsung introduces 2 new 1920×1080 models at 40 and 46 inches, LN40/46A550P1F both with a contrast ratio of 30000:1.
The PVV Bordeaux 550 series (a 32 inch 3rd model will be added later) promises to improve [...]

The Sony XEL-1 OLED TV was announced in Japan back in Oct 2007 and demo’ed at CES 2008…so it’s not exactly new but worth noting again because of some nice features.
The OLED display panel as used in the XEL-1 provides good color quality at 105% of NTSC, 1000000:1 contrast ratio, pixel response time of [...]

NEC was showing off their curved monitor model CRVD-42DWX+ at CES 2008. It’s a 42-inch 2880×900 resolution 32:10 aspect-ratio 10000:1 contrast-ratio LED-backlit DLP display with a 0.02ms response time - great for 3-D gaming and widescreen & immersive apps. Same (?) as the Alienware Curved display also seen at CES…it’s made by the same folks, [...]

Panasonic demonstrated its Life Wall prototype at CES 2008. Details are short but the idea is to replace entire walls in your living room with interactive touchscreens so as to simulate almost any environment. At the demo live models stood in front of a simulated wall complete with a fake fireplace, simulated view, and proceeded [...]

CNet just bestowed their “Best in Show” award to Philips for their 42-inch energy-saving 1080p LCD HDTV model 42PFL5603D dubbed “Eco TV”. $1,399
The Eco won on the basis of its power-saving backlight, which adjusts to darker scenes and room lighting conditions, resulting in a 10% reduction in your electricity bill. It’s also lead-free, mercury-challenged [...]

Mitsubishi showed their much anticipated laser-based DLP TV at CES 2008 today.
Called appropriately enough Mitsubishi LaserTV, the main feature & significant advantage of the unit is that it delivers twice the color gamut of regular HDTVs. Other pluses include low power consumption, long life and low unit weight and cost.
While Mitsubishi did not [...]

The new 150-inch plasma TV from Panasonic made its official debut at CES 2008. Here are some pix of the beast. It’s officially described as the “World’s Largest Advanced High Definition 150″ Plasma Display”.

The thing measures 11 ft by 6 1/4 ft (thats 3.31×1.87m), delivers 8.84 million pixels of goodness, is expected to [...]

Move along, nothing to see here…same old stuff…
…well actually, DigitalCameraInfo has a good summary review of a dozen or so digital photo frame products seen at CES 2008. Somewhat interesting is the world’s largest digital photo frame at 812mm…the Smartparts 32-inch LCD SP3200 has a resolution of 1366×768; it will sell for about $900 [...]