LG and Nuance Team Up For First Voice-Controlled Remote

LG and Nuance Team Up For First Voice-Controlled Remote

On the heels of Samsung’s announcement regarding the Samsung ES800, the first HDTV to offer control via voice recognition and gestures, LG revealed that it had struck a partnership with Nuance Communications, the company behind revolutionary applications Siri and Dragon Dictation, to make the LG Magic Remote the first HDTV clicker ever to offer voice [...]

James Bond Blu-Ray Box Set: Celebrating 50 Years of 007

James Bond golden anniversary Blu-Ray box set

In the midst of the world’s top consumer electronic companies announcing their latest and upcoming models for 2012, MGM Studios and 20th Century Fox shook and stirred CES 2012 with a revelation of their own – the unveiling of a Blu-Ray box set celebrating the golden anniversary of James Bond at the Panasonic booth today. [...]

Samsung 2012 HDTVs Ready To Outsmart Competition

samsung es8000

CES 2012 – For this year, Samsung has promised to deliver HDTVs that are thinner, more powerful and smarter to boot. The Samsung ES8000 is the perfect example, having a dual-core processor which until now, has only been found in computers, a slim bezel coupled with a curved, metallic stand (the four-pronged stand received some [...]

Sony Bravia 2012 HDTVs Built Thinner and Tougher

Sony Bravia HX850

Sony made its presence felt at CES 2012 as its announced its line-up of Bravia HDTVs for the coming year. Compared to last year’s promised line-up of nine lines consisting of 27 models, Sony seems to be slowing down in the HDTV department this year. Nonetheless, the 2012 Bravias remain as impressive as their predecessors [...]

Opera TV Store: Coming Soon To An HDTV Near You

opera store

Announced in September 2011, Opera finally officially launched its television application store at the 2012 CES today, signalling the coming of HTML5-based applications to television.   Lars Boilesen, CEO of the browser company based in Oslo, Norway, cites the Opera TV Store as one of the “new approaches to TV software”, making it “easier for [...]

CES BEGINS AS MAJOR PLAYERS OPT OUT

As the International Consumer Electronics Show starts in Las Vegas, it looks the world’s biggest consumer electronics trade fair is losing much of its clout: an increasing number of big name players have decided to completely forego the event while those who are still around are obviously scaling down their involvement. Instead of renting out [...]

TELYHD ALLOWS HIGH DEFINITION VIDEO CALLS

A new product called TelyHD revives the idea of using HDTVs – undoubtedly the biggest display panels found in homes – to make video calls that are literally high definition. Made by startup Tely Labs, the set-top device that looks eerily similar to Microsoft’s Kinect controller contains a wide-angle high-definition webcam that turns HDTVs into [...]

LG FAST-TRACKS OLED HDTV RELEASE TO BOOST TV SALES

LG-55-Inch-OLED-TV

Producing much sharper images than typical liquid crystal display (LCD) panels, the new 55-inch organic light emitting diode (OLED) screen slated to be unveiled by LG in CES 2012 would soon be available to consumers by middle of this year. This was revealed by the company as it prepares for the much awaited consumer electronics [...]

Glasses-Free Toshiba 3DTV To Be Launched in Germany

Toshiba recently announced that the first large-screen glasses-free 3DTV in Europe will be available in Germany by December 2011. The 55ZL2 is a 55-inch LED-backlit 3DTV equipped with QuadHD technology that doubles the full HD resolution to 3,840 x 2,160, and powered by the proprietary cell-based CEVO engine technology that promises impressive image calculations and [...]

London 2012 Olympics Will Feature Super Hi Vision Displays

Watching high definition sports events goes a notch higher, as the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) unveils a new broadcasting technology called Super Hi Vision that renders images 16 times better than typical HDTV broadcasts. The BBC will install for next year’s London Olympics three massive 50-foot screens outfitted with the cutting edge broadcasting technology in [...]