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HDTV Expert - Ken Werner at SID LA Chapter One-Day Symposium

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:25:06 +0000

Ken Werner will speak at the Society for Information Display Los Angeles Chapter’s One Day Symposium, “Emerging Display Technologies,” at the Costa Mesa Country Club on Friday, February 3. Â He will discuss display technology trends as seen at CES 2012, and the status of oxide-TFT backplanes for liquid-crystal displays. Â SeeÂ http://www.sid.org/ConferencesExhibits/LAChapterEmergingDisplayTechConference/Program.aspx....

HDTV Expert - 3M Wants to Expand Market for DBEF Reflective Polarizer, by Ken Werner

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:12:10 +0000

During CES 2012, 3Mâ€™s Optical Systems Division set up a demonstration in the Sony Theater at the MGM Grand. Dave Lamb (Senior Physics Research Specialist) and Dave Iverson (Business Manager, LCD Television Business) discussed a consumer study sponsored by 3M and conducted by CBS Vision that bolstered 3Mâ€™s contention that using the companyâ€™s Vikuiti DBEF ...

HDTV Almanac - NetFlix Posts Good News

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:00:24 +0000

In a letter to shareholders about 4th Quarter 2011 results, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings reported good news and bad news. As I read the letter, it looks to me that while the company may have made some very public missteps along the way, there is no question in my mind that the corporate change of ...

HDTV and Home Theater Podcast - Podcast #515: Pioneer Elite N-30 Networked Audio Player

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:19:53 +0000

The HT Guys love music and when a product comes along that lets us enjoy it, we want to take a look. The Pioneer N-30 is just such a device. It's a networked device that lets you listen to your favorite music whether it's on a computer, iPad, or on one of over a thousand Internet radio stations from around the world. The N-30 will have a MSRP of $499 when it becomes available. At the time of this writing we could not find available from the usual outlets....

HDTV Almanac - Great Gift for Grandparents

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:00:22 +0000

Okay, I think that this finally is my last CES 2012 post, at least for now. Today, I want to tell you about a product that won an an International CES Innovations 2012 Design and Engineering Award: TelyHD. This is essentially a dedicated network media player that only has one application: Skype. It runs on Android, ...

HDTV Almanac - Will DLNA Become Indispensable?

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:00:38 +0000

Let’s review the trends. Televisions are becoming more “connected” to all sorts of content. Subscription television services such as cable and satellite are being battered by “over-the-top” streaming video on the Internet. Everything is going wireless now that we’ve had a taste of untethered computing and communications thanks to our smartphones and tablets. And these ...

HDTV Almanac - Google TV Lives!

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:00:21 +0000

After last year’s disappearing act at CES 2011, Google TV came back strong at CES 2012. Google announced partnerships with major players including Sony, LG, VIZIO, and newcomer to the Smart TV market, Lenovo. (Logitech was conspicuously absent from the list.) Consumer demand for “over-the-top” streaming video over the Internet is growing by leaps and ...

HDTV Almanac - CES 2012: Sleeper Subject of the Show

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:00:34 +0000

No, I wasn’t at CES this year, but I followed the event closely and since a lot of companies thought I was going to attend, I got the usual flood of press releases and invitations. As a result, I’ve got sort of a 30,000 foot perspective on the show this year. While there was a ...

Blu-ray Review: Moneyball

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:30:06 +0000

Based on a true story, Moneyball is a movie for anybody who has ever dreamed of taking on the system. Brad Pitt stars as Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland A's and the guy who assembles the team, who has an epiphany: all of baseball's conventional wisdom is wrong. Forced to reinvent his team on a tight budget, Beane will have to outsmart the richer clubs. The onetime jock teams with Ivy League grad Peter Brand (Jonah Hill) in an unlikely partnership, recruiting bargain players that ...

HDTV Almanac - Another Passive 3DTV

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:00:14 +0000

At CES 2012, Western Digital joined the ranks of manufacturers offering passive 3DTV technology, along with LG, Vizio, Panasonic, and Toshiba. The company announced that it plans to ship the 47″ W47S2TCD later this spring with a list price of $899, including four pairs of glasses. This means that this technology will now be available ...