Jeff O’Heir at our sister publication Dealerscope has a follow-up to a story we reported on a few weeks back about Target’s efforts to combat “showrooming.” From Jeff’s rebuttal: Face it, mobile payments, mobile advertising, price comparison apps and social commerce are quickly becoming the norm and will all play an essential role in how consumers shop for more »

After teasing us last month at CES, Vizio has finalized the specs on its new ultra-wide 21:9 televisions. Closely approximating the standard CinemaScope 2.39:1 ratio, these new televisions allow you to crop and scale ultra-widescreen films to eliminate the black bars at the top and bottom of the screen. Launching initially as a 58-incher, the more »

4K TVs were all the buzz at this year’s CES (second only to earbuds in prominence), a fact that led to a good amount of head-scratching between me and my journalist friends at the show. Which, of course, led to a number of geeky conversations over cocktails, and one or two seriously mathematically-charged phone calls more »

Ultraviolet, the new digital copy system embraced by most of Hollywood, has finally gotten around to being more than a digital copy service, and is selling movies without being tied to a DVD or Blu-ray purchase. Unfortunately, the first studio to latch onto the direct service has decided to charge top dollar prices to those more »

I feel like I need to apologize. Perhaps to all the friends who’ve come to me asking for TV-buying advice over the past few years. Perhaps to the consumer electronics industry as a whole. Perhaps just to Samsung, I dunno. But my mantra when asked for flat-panel buying advice has consistently been, “Buy a plasma.” more »

A device that transmits content from laptop to HDTV would seem to be an absolute no-brainer for this reviewer. After all, to my teenage kids (as to most members of the iGeneration), most anything posted on YouTube is preferable to just about every TV show you could name. Blame it on short, iPod-honed attention spans, more »

It’s long been speculated that Apple’s iTV strategy would somehow involve Siri, the voice command assistant introduced with the iPhone 4S, but perhaps Steve Jobs had something else in mind. AppleInsider has uncovered a new patent, filed in September 2011, that illustrates how he may have “cracked it.” The product described goes with the theory more »

Steve Jobs makes one little comment about having “finally cracked it” and the electronics world as we know it holds it breath and starts running around in circles in a tizzy. Surely, “cracking it” meant that El Jobso figured out a solution to replace the horrible, completely impossible to master, caveman-like encumbrance known as the more »

Well, the fat lady has sung, the curtains have been closed and CES 2012 is officially a few days in the bag. After several days of decompressing and detoxing — there is a LOT of drinking in Vegas — and reflecting, I thought I would share my list of Best, Worst, Coolest, and other superlatives more »

“Showrooming,” the practice of browsing brick-and-mortar stores for products and then buying them at a steeper discount online, is becoming a more and more prominent problem for traditional retailers, with app’s like Amazon’s Price Check making it easier than ever before to use retail shops as nothing but glorified store windows. According to a new Story in more »