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Sony’s new online service connecting the whole range of its gadgets to downloadable content like movies and games should help build brand loyalty, a top executive said Friday.
Executive Vice President Kazuo Hirai said the service, set for launch next year, highlights an advantage that Sony has over rivals like Samsung Electronics Co. and other manufacturers that don’t produce their own content. Sony’s business empire spans gaming, electronics, movies and music.
The state of California often leads the rest of the United States on environmentally-conscious regulation and legislation, perhaps most notably with a long-term effort to reign in motor vehicle emissions. Now, the state has turned its attention to televisions, adopting energy efficiency standards that will be imposed on new televisions starting in January 2011—and then get even tougher in 2013.
“In California, televisions (along with DVRs, DVD players, and cable/satellite boxes) now consume about 10 percent of a home’s electricity,” California Energy Commission members Arthur Rosenfeld and Julia Levin wrote in a statement. ” Increasing sales of flat screen televisions, larger screen sizes, the growing number of TVs per household, and increased daily use of televisions all contribute to greater electricity consumption.”
Finally! Oh Walmart, you sly dog– how patiently we’ve waited for you to reveal your Black Friday deals and savings. Today, about a week before the most epic shopping event of the year, Walmart released its Black Friday ads. The retail giant has been offering weekly deals since late October, but the real savings are being revealed today on Black Friday sites all over the Internet. Walmart.com and Walmart stores may be having different deals, so be sure to check where the sale is. Walmart will be open from 5am until 11pm on November 27th. It’s also good to check your local Walmart’s store hours–some are actually open 24 hours and may have different doorbuster deal times.
Looking for a convenient and wireless way to view your PC’s content on your crisp HDTV? HD semiconductor manufacturer AMIMON may have the connective solution for you. Today, AMIMON introduced its WHDI modules which can be embedded into notebook and netbook PCs for a “seamless” wireless HD connection to your HDTV. Meaning: You can watch Hulu on an actual big screen, rather than the maximized screen size of your laptop.
Toshiba is one of the larger purveyors of technology gear like computers and TVs. The company has put together a new TV commercial that has to be one of the coolest and most innovative commercials ever seen to show off its REGZA SV LCD TV.
The commercial is called “Space Chair” and follows the journey of a single armchair that is tied to a balloon and lofted to the edge of space at 98,268 feet. The trek to the lofty altitude took 83 minutes and the fall back to Earth took the chair 24 minutes. The tag line is very ingenious — Armchair viewing redefined.
In a bid to sell living room electronics and spur buzz for “Cloudy with A Chance of Meatballs,” Sony Corp. is offering the movie for free to U.S. buyers of its Internet-connected TVs and Blu-ray players starting Monday.
People who buy that equipment will be able to watch the movie in any 24-hour window from Dec. 8 until it is released on DVD and Blu-ray disc on Jan. 5.
Sony’s move highlights the way that movies are increasingly becoming available on TVs that connect directly to the Internet as the entertainment industry strives to come up with new business models.
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With 3DTVs powered by widgets entering family rooms sometime in 2010, it really feels like we are living in the future we all dreamed about. How high can TV refresh rates get before the human eye fails to tell what is reality and what’s not? Will streaming media eventually kill cable companies and become mainstream fare? We get behind the scenes with Geoffrey Morrison, Editor-In-Chief of Home Entertainment Magazine to discuss these questions and talk about TV lifecycles. What TV trend are you looking forward to the most? Let us know in the comments below, we would love to hear from you.
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Japanese electronics giant Toshiba has announced it’s planning the first public showing of its long-gestating high-definition television with an embedded Cell processor at next month’s Ceatec trade show in Japan on October 5. Toshiba has been quietly demonstrating prototypes of televisions with Cell technology since at least 2007, but has not made any concrete moves to bring the units to market. A public showing at Ceatec suggests the company is preparing to enter at least the Japanese market in the short term, although no pricing and availability information has been released.
You’ve heard about LCDs. You’ve heard about plasmas. Maybe even you even understand all the pros and cons between them. But what are all these “LED televisions” we keep hearing about?
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