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Archive for April, 2008

Samsung says OLED monitors coming next year

Posted by Erica Ogg on April 22nd, 2008

Sony's teased us for a bit with its impossibly thin, 11-inch organic light-emitting diode (OLED) TV, and finally brought it to the U.S. this year. Now it looks like there will be more to choose from in OLED TVs next year. Samsung SDI says that by 2009, not ...

Now on the runway in Milan: The Armani TV

Posted by Mike Yamamoto on April 17th, 2008
(Credit: Akihabara News)

Open memo to our bosses: Crave needs to schedule an expense-account trip to Milan.

Last week we wrote of a Fujitsu laptop made of cedar that was showing at the Salone Internazionale Del Mobile exhibition (that's "International Furniture Fair" to you Philistines out there). And now ...

The TV-DVD combo isn’t dead yet

Posted by Mike Yamamoto on April 15th, 2008
(Credit: Westinghouse)

There's a reason that all-in-one TVs are always at the very end of the aisle at retailers. They may well be the least-cool media gear around, bearing the scorn of those who complain, among other things, that the individual components can't be tweaked or repaired. But ...

Another remote to drive others crazy

Posted by Mike Yamamoto on April 14th, 2008
(Credit: SourcingMap)

The trend of anti-gadget gadgets continues. Well, maybe anti is too strong of a prefix--it's really more about control, as is everything else in life.

The growing list speaks for itself, as seen in this sample: the "Best Net Guard," the "Covert Clicker," "TV-B-Gone," and most recently (...

FCC fines retailers over DTV violations

Posted by Marguerite Reardon on April 10th, 2008

The Federal Communications Commission slapped heavy fines on several retailers Thursday for failing to properly label analog TVs that will have to be retrofitted next year for digital TV when broadcasters turn off their analog signals in February.

In total, the FCC levied fines of $3.9 million on big ...