A new standard for ultra high-definition television (UHDTV) has been agreed on by the ITU Study Group. The whole idea is to cram as many megapixels you can into a given screen, and just recently, the ITU Study Group reached a final verdict regarding technical specifications on television sets of tomorrow. Apparently, broadcasters have been more »

Best Buy is gearing up to start a new promotion next week involving the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. From August 21 to August 27, the retailer will give away the 16GB Galaxy Tab 10.1 with every purchase of a couple Samsung HDTVs. Those televisions also happen to be quite expensive.

After only 10 months Samsung Apps store already has a total of 100 million downloads. Those downloads are apps spread across Bada-equipped smartphones and HDTVs. Samsung was helped quite a bit by a few European countries that downloaded a lot of apps. The country that downloaded the most apps from Samsung Apps was France, with more »

In the past CES has been home to a great many large TVs. Last year the race to be the biggest was offset by the race to get the best 3D. Now Samsung is hoping that having the biggest 3DTV will mean something. Well, maybe not the biggest 3d TV but the biggest 3DTV backed more »

Last year, Samsung got mad at me everytime I tried to photograph their TVs. This year, I managed to get all the shots I could want without being yelled at. To prove it, here’s a quick tour of the TVs in Samsung’s booth. A lot of the TVs were surprisingly not 3D, but just simple more »

Last year we saw a lot of 3DTVs at CES. This year, there seems to be a lot of smart TVs. Samsung is the latest company to offer smart TVs along with a host of new features. This year, a full two-thirds of Samsung’s TVs will be smart, all connected to the web for streaming more »

It seems just having a few apps for streaming video and music on TV’s wasn’t enough for LG. Today LG announced it’s new SmartTV platform with even more connectivity. LG’s SmartTV platform will offer the same premium content, but will also have a few apps and web browsing for TVs. To make the the user more »

This past week saw the makers of TVs all saying the same thing – a price avalanche is coming. Prices are expected to fall in 2010 as much as 25% by the holiday season as retailers fight for scarce customers. Warnings have gone out to investors. “There’s going to be a price war this Christmas more »

BJ’s is running some decent specials in the run up to Black Friday. From HDTVs to 3D, BJs got some good prices for those looking to jump the Black Friday gun. The debate on the quality of Black Friday deals rages on as the economy putts along. This may be as good as we see more »

Underwriter Laboratories (UL) has issued a warning that some LCD TVs have entered the US market falsely bearing the UL logo. The UL is an independent product safety certification organization responsible for testing products and writing Standards for Safety for over 100 years. The UL warns there could be safety concerns with the falsely marked more »