Toshiba recently has made a major move in the LCD market that very likely has gotten the attention of the boys at Sony, Samsung and Vizio. Their latest line of high-definition LCD displays, specifically the 42-inch Regza Cinema Series HD display reviewed here are thinner, brighter and better than any other set in terms of refresh rate. What’s even more impressive is that you buy one today for a reasonable $1,699 retail.
While the product number may be confusing, the Regza Cinema Series HD LCD has a 42-inch, 16:9 display, with a native resolution of 1080p and a 120Hz refresh rate. The display itself measures roughly 40 inches wide by 25-and-a-half inches tall and nearly four inches deep, The manual controls are located along the right side of the display itself and feature hard buttons for power, menu, channel and volume, as well as a single HDMI and composite audio/video inputs, which are pretty much standard
It’s just been a few months since Silicon Mountain rolled out its first Allio LCD TV-PCs , but it looks like the company has already found some room for expansion courtesy of everyone’s favorite cost-reducing processor. While the TV portion of the 1080p 42-inch model and 720p 32-inch model each remain identical to their predecessors, the innards have taken on more of a netbook/nettop …
Chennai, Feb 2: The Rs.6-billion turnover Dixon Technologies, which owns the consumer durable brand Weston, will set up a Rs.200-million (Rs.20-crore) unit to manufacture liquid crystal display (LCD) television sets at Oragadam near here.
AP – Doug Bates and his wife, Stacey, were in bed around 10 p.m., their 2-year-old daughters asleep in a nearby room. Suddenly they were shaken awake by the wail of police sirens and the rumble of a helicopter above their suburban Southern California home. A criminal must be on the loose, they thought.
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“Ah, is that the Boticelli Venus hanging there in your living room?” “Yes, but let’s watch the SuperBowl so wait just a moment while I push this button to make the painting roll up and reveal my flat screen television!”
My friend and colleague Bruce Berkoff likes to refer to the WAF of flat panel TVs in the home: the Wife Acceptance Factor. (I adhere to the more context appropriate and inclusive SOFA: Significant Other Factor of Acceptance.) Try as hard as they might, TV manufacturers have yet to come up with a design that doesn’t cause at least one home decorator to declare that “you’re not hanging that ugly hunk of plastic in this room, buster!” Well, Media Decor has come up with a new solution to the problem.
Their new Ecco Series lets you pair a picture frame with a work of art, ranging from Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus ” to contemporary abstracts. You pick from four different frame colors, and choose between two sizes, and voila! You get your own customized solution. An RF remote control lets you wind the painting up or down, and the frame is battery powered so there is no wiring required.
Hiding your flat screen behind a painting starts at just under $1,500, which means that it could cost more than twice as much as the TV you put behind it, but for some folks, that’s a small price to pay to keep the home decorator happy.
