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Video: Panasonic's next-gen IPS-Alpha panel is uber quick, dark

by Darren Murph posted Oct 6th 2009 at 6:46AM Featured Story

We've seen some dark, dark panels in our day, but Panasonic's next-generation IPS-Alpha has us all sorts of hot and bothered. Unlike Pioneer's plasmas of yesteryear, the prototype seen here at CEATEC has wide angle viewing down to an art, and the image quality was simply stunning. Fast moving objects slid in with nary a jagged edge in sight, while the production unit on the left produced a noticable and continual blur. When portraying a pitch black background, it's easy to see just how much darker the IPS-Alpha panel was compared to the next best thing. Have a peek at the video below for a more personal peek, and look forward to us prying out some sort of price and release estimate when the company shows this again at CES. You will have that information at CES, right Panny?

Gallery: Panasonic's next-gen IPS-Alpha panel is uber quick, dark

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Samsung's LED TV Couple packs a 7-inch tablet remote for streaming TV and so much more

by Paul Miller posted Sep 6th 2009 at 11:07AM Breaking NewsFeatured Story


Without much fanfare, Samsung has released a TV / tablet combo in Korea that seems to deliver on all the untapped promise in Toshiba's JournE touch tablet. Dubbed the LED TV Couple, Samsung has paired a 55-inch LED baclkit LCD TV with a brand new 7-inch touchscreen tablet, which communicates with and controls a full home theater over 802.11n WiFi. The tablet offers a visual program guide, including video previews of TV shows, along with access to media stored on a PC -- which can in turn be "tossed" up to the full TV -- and even a few widgets. But the real money is in the pair's ability to stream live TV and Blu-ray content from the home theater to the tablet, making that next trip to the kitchen for munchies so much less painful. No word on a US or Europe release, but we hope to see a lot more of this pair in the near future. Peep them in action after the break.

Gallery: Samsung's LED TV Couple

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VUDU's streaming service demoed live on an LG TV

by Paul Miller posted Jul 30th 2009 at 11:12AM Featured Story


We've seen it in the flesh, and we must say VUDU is doing things right with its move to a device-agnostic service. They haven't chucked a single feature, and the interface is rather responsive for a TV-based video service (though not quite as flashy as its PS3 and Xbox 360 counterparts). Even with a bit of crummy hotel internet getting in the way, the device managed to buffer streams of 720p and 1080p content at a fairly rapid rate -- besting a best-case-scenario Netflix buffer time in most cases. It's clear that the 5.1 surround, 1080p-equipped HDX format, which can downgrade its bitrate based on available bandwidth, is really going to eat up your pipes, but the 720p looks quite good even in the face of a somewhat limited connection. While LG and Vizio are the jumping off point for this service, it's VUDU's stated aim to land on pretty much any home theater device that'll have them -- we can't imagine Microsoft or Sony taking very kindly to the offer, but it's hard to argue with this level of HD selection. Video of the service in action is after the break.

Gallery: VUDU's streaming service demoed live on an LG TV

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Check out the hands-on with BD Live over at Engadget

by Nilay Patel posted Jan 9th 2008 at 6:32PM


Sony's demoing the new Blu-ray Interactive features in their booth at CES, and Engadget's got the video with Mahalo Daily's Veronica Belmont -- hit the read link to check it out!

Video: 82-inch 4K Sony prototype display gets showcased

by Darren Murph posted Jan 6th 2008 at 9:33PM

Sony's got a thing for 82-inch displays, and sure enough, it's showcasing yet another iteration at this CES. This go 'round, the display being highlighted was displaying content at 4K -- well, when it wasn't showing four separate screens at 1080p apiece, that is. Drooling yet? Veronica Belmont from Mahalo Daily is waiting just beyond the break to walk you through.

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Video: Sony's 27-inch OLED leave jaws open

by Darren Murph posted Jan 6th 2008 at 9:33PM

Still left wanting more after checking out Sony's 82-inch 4K display? How's about a 27-inch OLED that's about as thick as two credit cards stacked together? 'Course, Sony's already offering up an 11-inch version for those with cash to burn, but this one's not nearly as ready to sneak into your home. Still, you know you can't resist taking a peek, so jump on through and start dreaming, alright?

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Video: Up close with Toshiba's new LCD TVs

by Nilay Patel posted Jan 6th 2008 at 3:04PM


We already spent some time with Toshiba's new crop of LCDs, but Mahalo Daily's Veronica Belmont got up close and personal with the new units, and they're just as sweet -- and thin -- as you'd expect. Check out the vid after the break!

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Toshiba announces slew of LCDs for 2008: hands-on and video

by Darren Murph posted Jan 6th 2008 at 2:20PM


As you've surely saw in our liveblog of the Toshiba press conference, the firm went wild with new LCD releases for 2008. The overriding theme was thinness and early release dates, with essentially every set listed shipping by April. We'll get down to the dirt: two new 720p sets were introduced -- the AV500 and REGZA CV510 -- the first of which will be available in sizes ranging from 19- to 42-inches and feature DynaLight, HDMI and a PC input, while the latter will only be available in 32- / 37-inch sizes and sport PixelPure4G 14-bit internal processing, a 1.5-inc ThinLine Bezel design and a trio of HDMI 1.3 ports. For more on the outpouring of 1080p sets, click on through.

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Video: Hands-on with LG's MPH mobile broadcast standard

by Chris Ziegler posted Jan 6th 2008 at 12:25PM Featured Story


In the wake of LG's press conference today we're still a little skeptical that the world needs yet another standard for mobile TV, but for what it's worth, the company appears to have signed up a variety of partners in an effort to push it -- and they certainly brought enough eye candy hardware with prototype MPH hardware already integrated. In the mix was a modified VX9400, an LG laptop, a portable media player, and a USB dongle, and with the first commercial rollouts expected as soon as February of next year, we figure it's a good thing they have so much actual product to show. We're a little miffed at the idea that the standard is robbing sweet, sweet bandwidth from the traditional ATSC signal (as opposed to, say, DVB-H and MediaFLO, which rock their own frequencies), but we can also appreciate why this might speed mobile TV rollouts due to a significantly reduced dedicated infrastructure footprint. And besides, who isn't excited about the prospect of watching the boob tube at 140 miles per hour?

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Video: Hitachi 1.5 LCD TV hands-on

by Thomas Ricker posted Jan 6th 2008 at 4:14AM Featured Story


What? Wasn't everyone ninja-spelunking the cavernous halls of CES 2008 this evening? For those who couldn't, here's Hitachi's 1.5 LCD TV in a silky pirouette just for your viewing pleasure. Funny enough, 1.5-inches never looked so chubby.

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