After a long period of experimentation, it looks like quantum dots may be ready to start making their way into some television prototypes. Mashable has a new piece up about work done by Nanosys and 3M to bring the technology into prime time in cellular phones and television screens: What are quantum dots, anyway? They are light-emitting nanoparticles. more »

TV makers have been trying for years to get OLED moving. The high-quality display technology is self-illuminating, fast, and bright, with superior contrasts and no motion issues — truly the best that LED and plasma displays have to offer, all wrapped up in one screen technology. Unfortunately, despite some promising new solutions, OLED TVs remain more »

Via pretty much the entire internet comes news this week that Sharp has introduced two new 4K TVs for the Japanese market. Coming under the banner of the AQUOS UD1 series, the new 60- and 70-inch displays, model LC-60UD1 and LC-70UD1 respectively, are noteworthy not just for their price – 650,000 yen ($6,335) and 850,000 yen ($8,290) each — but more »

Via Electronic House comes news that Panasonic’s ZT60 plasma is now shipping in both 60- and 65-inch varieties. If you recall, the ZT60 is one of two new plasma displays — along with Samsung’s F8500 — that quenched my thirst for market-ready OLEDs at this year’s CES in Las Vegas. Black levels? Practically perfect. Contrast? Superb. more »

The AP is reporting that Best Buy will begin carrying Sony’s 55″ & 65″ XBR 4K Ultra HD TV starting this Sunday, “in an effort to shake up the stagnant TV category.” The displays will be available for demo and purchase in 700 Best Buy and Magnolia Home Theater locations, and interestingly enough, won’t be more »

One of the major problems that has held OLED manufacturing back at large scales is the need for the panels to be literally perfect. If they are not properly sealed, the panels degrade quickly, losing half their brightness in under four months. Researchers at NHK think they’ve found the solution: By inverting the anode and more »

Google TV has been called everything from a flop to a really hard flop to a mega-flop (why not a petaflop? one wonders), but the “Smart TV Platform that Could” keeps chugging along with OS updates and a continued attempt to be the cool kids’ alternative to Apple TV. And now, it seems, Google TV wants more »

My buddy Geoff Morrison — former editor-in-chief at Home Entertainment; contributor to Sound+Vision, CNET, and Wire Cutter; author of last year’s sci-fi romance novel Undersea (edited and executive produced by yours truly) — has written what I think may be the consumer electronics industry’s first professional review of the most talked-about TV of the year: Seiki’s more »

Fortune has a brief but interesting new piece  exploring the increasing prevalence of the internet as a source of entertainment on living room TV screens, with a few facts and figures that, when taken together, reveal just how how much trouble the traditional linear cable industry is facing. Intriguing figures taken from a report by Diffusion Group entitled Defining the more »

If you haven’t been following in the ongoing saga of Aereo, it’s an interesting one. The broadcast networks — especially CBS and Fox — are irate at Aereo’s practice of “renting” antenna usage to mobile users, and re-broadcasting over-the-air content via the interwebs… for a fee. Lawsuits, it goes without saying, have been filed, but more »