Kodak Shows off World's First OLED Frame- Digital Trends News - September 17, 2008
- With Sony already having snatched the title for first commercial OLED television with the XEL-1, Kodak moved in to capture a title on its own turf Wednesday with the very first OLED picture frame. The new Kodak OLED WireRead | Permalink | Linking Blo...
AT&T Rolls Out U-verse Total Home DVR- Digital Trends News - September 9, 2008
- AT&T has been teasing a new Total Home DVR capability for its U-verse customers for some time, but the company has at least officially announced the new unit, which enables users to play back up to five saved high-definition shows at the same tim...
Mitsubishi Prices LaserVue at $7K- Digital Trends News - September 9, 2008
- For those of you who gawked at Mitsubishi’s LaserVue television at this year’s CES in Las Vegas and wondered how much it would cost to get one for the living room, the time has finally come for that moment of reckoning. Brace your wallets...
- U-verse rolls out upgrade to U-verse DVRs
- CNET News - September 9, 2008
- AT&T is upgrading the digital video recorder on its Internet-based television service, allowing users to record and play back multiple programs on up to eight televisions.
Is That The Conquistador? They Run Tight.- Digital Trends News - September 5, 2008
- Well, you've got to give Microsoft one point: they didn't produce a conventional television ad.Software giant Microsoft has kicked off its $300 million ad campaign to promote its Windows Vista operating system with a spot featuring comedian Jerry Sei...
Sharp Rolls Out New Aquos HDTVs- Digital Trends News - September 4, 2008
- Electronics giant Sharp has unveiled a spate of new HDTVs at this year's CEDIA Expo, including new ultra-thing models, along with limited editions, deep color support, sets with 120 Hz refresh rates, and even a small 19-inch model aimed at folks with...
Amazon Extends Video On Demand Reach- Digital Trends News - September 4, 2008
- Amazon.com has extended the reach of its online Video On Demand offering, enabling streaming access to thousands of movies and television programs via Mac and PC Web browser, as well as purchases and rentals through Sony's Bravia Internet Video Link ...
Samsung Launches U.S. Recycling Program- Digital Trends News - September 3, 2008
- Another consumer electronics manufacturer is getting on the e-waste bandwagon: this time it's South Korean giant Samsung, which has just announced Samsung Recycling Direct, a program that will enable consumers in all 50 states to recycle Samsung-bran...
TiVo and DirecTV Re-Team For New DVR- Digital Trends News - September 3, 2008
- Satellite television provider DirecTV and DVR pioneer TiVo used to have a very cozy relationship. The companies got together back in 2000, and shortly DirecTV was moving the majority of TiVo DVR devices and creating oodles of TiVo subscriptions. Howe...
Toshiba Projector Does Close Captioning- Digital Trends News - September 2, 2008
- One of the problems with showing television or DVD programming to a group using a projection system—particularly in business situations—is that close captioning information included with video programming is usually entirely lost. Sometim...
- Hitachi Faces Dallas Federal Lawsuit Over HD Television Defects
- Press Releases - August 29, 2008
Broadcom Buys AMD's DTV Biz for $192.8 Mln- Digital Trends News - August 25, 2008
- After writing down substantial sums on its $5.4 billion purchase of ATI back in 2006, AMD is beginning to divest itself of some of the assets of that sale, announcing today that it has struck a deal with Broadcom to buy all AMD's digital television b...
- Bebo appoints exec to handle original content
- CNET News - August 21, 2008
- Kelly Brett, a London-based television producer, has already been working on Bebo-commissioned video content for the past year.
Intel, Yahoo to Build Internet into HDTVs- Digital Trends News - August 21, 2008
- At this week's Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Yahoo and Intel announced a new initiative aimed at building support for Web-enabled channels directly into high-definition televisions, so Internet-based content (and, no doubt, advertising) can...
TV Remains Top News Source- Digital Trends News - August 18, 2008
- A new report from the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press finds that television is still Americans' leading source of news and information, but an increasing number of Americans are turning to online news sources, particularly among adve...