You don’t know what to do with the 120hz that your Mitsubishi DLP supports? Well, don’t worry, they do know what to do with it and it’s called stereoscopic 3D. Select movies and video games can be rendered with optimum stereo “3D” quality (requires polarized glasses, I think).

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Westinghouse is one of the most venerable consumer-appliance brands in American history, so it's no wonder the company has gotten into the LCD TV game in a big way. I've reviewed several Westinghouse sets, and I've seen steady improvement with each generation.

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With the digital transition coming in early 2009 and some markets changing to digital broadcasts before that the market for LCD and Plasma TVs is booming. The economic stimulus checks soon to be showing up for most Americans will also see lots of new HDTVs coming to homes around the country. Today we are going to talk about a few of the things you need to consider when you are buying a LCD or plasma TV.

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A bigger set doesn’t really have to be everything. At first, I thought the bigger the better. But not necessarily. You won’t need a 108-inch flat panel TV on your 120-inch living room wall. What you do need, whether you realize it or not, is an HDTV with 120Hz image processing for quicker frame rate conversion and blazing fast pixel response times.

Film is shot at 24 frames per second. And just about every movie disc you can buy is encoded at that speed. DVD, HD DVD, Blu-ray at 24 frames per second. However, television programming runs at 30 frames per second and most TVs conform to that standard.

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Westinghouse Digital has reportedly unveiled a new “16-inch, flip-style LCD HDTV.” It is known as the PT-16H610S - pricing is said to be around $330.

The PT-16H610S, first shown off at CES, has a dual hinge design for adjusting the display forward and back or via its height. It has an ATSC/NTSC/ClearQAM tuner and 1080p HDMI, among other HD friendly features.

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LG has launched a new line of Plasma TV called Xcanvas BoBos in Korea. Little is known about the specifications, but from the photos, the speakers are well hidden in the back. Of course, all three models are Full-HD (1080p) capable.

42-inch 42PG61RD

50-inch 50PG61RD

60-inch 60PG70FHD

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For most people, the biggest turn offs about the home cinema dream are cost and clutter. Which just so happen to be the two issues Humax's LP40-TDR1 LCD TV tries especially hard to address.

When it comes to reducing clutter, the ‘killer app' of the LP40 is its Freeview Playback capability, meaning that it has a fully featured hard disk recording system built into its body. There's no need for a separate recorder box, or the attendant cabling that would require.

In terms of cost, you can get your hands on the LP40's still very rare, subscription-free built-in Freeview Playback system, plus its big old 40in LCD screen, for the extremely aggressive price of £690. That's less than many ‘vanilla' 32in LCD TVs.

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Samsung and Armani are no strangers; their fruitful partnership is taking them towards a new frontier, they are launching a new premium HDTV. The TV was spotted on the opening day of the Milan International Furniture Fair. The TVs come in 46- and 52-inches; the 1080p LCDs feature Samsung's 100Hz display technology. The TV design take inspiration from Giorgio Armani's '08/'09 Armani/Casa home furnishings collection; inspired by Eileen Gray and redolent of Hollywood's Golden Age. The idea is to showcase the TV as a part of the design element of the room and not blend it in.

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LG, it's fair to say, is getting sick and tired of being perceived as Korea's ‘second' AV brand after Samsung. There was a time not so long ago where the two brands' public perceptions seemed more or less equal, but recently Samsung has surged away in terms of both image and cold, hard sales.

So this year LG claims it's determined to claw its way back towards parity with its neighbour thanks to a new range of TVs that look set to deliver a truly killer combination of feature choice, opulent looks, high performance standards and strikingly affordable prices.

We've already seen LG get off to a fine start in realising this dream with the impressive 50PG6000 50in plasma TV. But now it's time to see how the ambition holds up with a shift to LCD technology and a step down one rung of LG's TV range ladder, in the shape of the 32in 32LG5000.

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We brought you the good news that Hitachi's swanky UT range of LCD TVs would be coming to the US, and now Hitachi have dished the dirt on their specifications. The 32-inch version will have a 1366 x 768 screen, versus the 1920 x 1080 of the bigger 37- and 42-inch versions. But all are just 1.4 inches deep (that'll be the Ultra Thin bit, then) and sport a 250GB internal HDD.

There's also an iVDR port for iVDR drive cartridges, dual tuners and DLNA and 1080p compatibility. The cleverest bit? Most of the TVs guts are in a separate box, connected by Ultra Wide Band, which is presumably how they keep the screen so skinny. They've got black or white bezels, and are available from June in Japan, for $2,670, $3,360 and $4,350. We don't have a date for their US release yet.

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Mitsubishi earlier this week rolled out the carpet on a variety of new HDTVs for release this year. These new models come in a variety of screen sizes and body configurations and should all begin being available this month in staggered releases.

General details of these new models include what Mitsubishi says is thinner frame and brighter DLP models as well as “ultra thin frame” LCD HDTVs with better sound. There’s also upcoming the first ever laser powered television. If you are curious to learn more, check out the entire press release after the jump.

Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America Introduces New Line of HDTVs Creating a New Dimension in Television

Highlights Include New DLP(R) and LCD HDTV Enhancements and LaserVue(TM) Laser TV

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We’ve seen our share of Stereo TVs at CES, but most work with video games or “special” movie features that display two images, one of each eye, rendered from a slightly different point of view to reflect the distance between both eyes.

This one is capable of using 3D Stereo broadcast signals directly (which are probably created by filming with two lenses…). The downside is that you have to wear polarized glasses. Usually it strains the eyes to some extent to be watching that stuff…

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Check out this cool 4GB USB Thumb drive the Buffalo DH-KONE4G/U2DS. It features a 1Seg TV tuner built in, so you can watch TV on your laptop or PC, it can also record TV from the tuner direct to the memory on the thumb drive. The 4GB of storage will let you record up to 20 hours of TV. No word on pricing or availability as yet.

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Some people want their gigantic TV to be the centerpiece of their living room, the object that immediately screams out for attention and says "look at me! I'm a gigantic TV!" Other people, however, just want their TV to blend into the background and only be the center of attention when it's being watched. For those people, Sony's introducing the Bravia E4000 TV line.
The TVs, coming in 26, 32, and 40-inch models will offer a "picture frame" edging in a number of finishes such as Dark Walnut and Midnight Sky to help it blend in with your décor, looking like a picture frame on your wall. No word on pricing yet, but they should be available within the next few weeks.

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In Japan, the hand can be used as a knife. And you can't swing a Yume Neko Smile cat without defacing a 1080p TV with built-in Ethernet and a hard disk drive recorder. Case in point, Toshiba's latest batch of REGZA LCDs, ten in all. The top of the line ZH500 series measures in at 52- (52ZH500) and 46-inches (46ZH500) with 120Hz VA panels, 4x HDMI (1080/60p, 24p) inputs, 3x Ethernet (with DLNA support), 2x USB, Bluetooth, Firewire, SD slot, and a DVR to record your shows to the built-in 300GB disk. These lack the eSATA jack found in the 42-, 37-, and 32-inch RH500 series, but you can add more disk over Ethernet via an I-O Data REGZA drive wrapped in DTCP-IP DRM to keep your HD recordings off the global torrents. Rounding things out are the 42- and 37-inch ZV500 series of 120HZ IPS panel LCDs and the relatively low-end, 42-, 37-, and 32-inch CV500 series of diskless TVs. Prices will range from ¥160,000 ($1,560) on up to about $5,850 when products start hitting shelves between April and June.

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