Samsung Slashes HDTV Prices For Black Friday Week

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Today Samsung announced that they will be offering special deals on select Samsung HDTVs starting Sunday November 22nd through November 30th.
For each TV listed below I tried to find an online offer. Amazon has a big Samsung HDTV selection, but most of the five HDTVs Samsung features are not listed. The featured Plasma models are not showing up in price comparison services either. This does not mean these are bad TVs, but definitely not the latest generation. The specifications of some of the Samsungs are good especially with the price associated with it.

The Samsung HDTV promotion is also not featuring any LED HDTVs. See the list of Samsung TVs on sale next week below.
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Posted on Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Hot Canon Vixia H200 HD Camcorder Only $499 On Amazon

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The Canon Vixia H200 HD camcorder is one of the bestselling camcorders right now.
Features of the Canon Vixia H200 include 15x HD video lens, full HD recording, 24p cinema mode, 30p progressive mode, dual shot and HDMI port.
You can find the Canon Vixia H200 for $549 on Amazon and other stores, but Amazon is right now also offering a promotional code that reduces the price of the Vixia H200 by another $50.
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Posted on Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:50:30 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Olive Unveils 4HD Music Server

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Olive has unveiled its latest home music server and blazed a new category with the product for HD Hi-Fi servers. The Olive 4HD has 24-bit sound and a 192kHz sample rate offering 250 times the resolution of a CD.

Storage for the 4HD is to a 2TB internal HDD and the device is capable of accessing any digital music library. The server also has a built-in CD drive that allows music to be copied directly to the internal HDD. Tracks can also be imported from Mac and Windows computers. Read more

Posted on Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:00:00 CST | by Shane McGlaun

Early NewEgg Black Friday Sale Features 19-inch LCD HDTV for $129.99

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NewEgg is offering a 19-inch LCD HDTV today for only $129.99 (Reg. $249.99).
The SCEPTRE X195BV-HD 19-inch 720p LCD HDTV offers 4ms response time, 300 cd/m2 brightness and 1000:1 contrast ratio.
Other features of the SCEPTRE X195BV-HD TV include ATSC, NTSC, QAM Tuner, PC input, headphone out and HDMI.
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Posted on Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:01:27 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Upgrade Notebook HDD or SSD Easier with SATA Wire

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There are a number of hard drive and SSD upgrade kits floating around for notebooks and netbooks. The catch is that many users simply don’t have the understanding needed to transfer all of their files over to the new drive. Apricorn has a new upgrade kit to make the transfer easier called the SATA Wire.

The SATA Wire sells for $19.99 and is a cable that plugs into your SATA SSD or HDD on one end and then plugs into the USB port of your notebook on the other to transfer data. The upgrade kit also includes cloning software that makes it easy to move all your data over. Read more

Posted on Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:45:26 CST | by Shane McGlaun

New Sears Black Friday Now Deals Feature 50-inch LG Full HD 600Hz Plasma HDTV

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Sears will have a great 50-inch LG Plasma HDTV on sale during their Black Friday Now sales event in-stores.
The LG 50-inch Class 1080p 600Hz Plasma HDTV will be on sale for $879.99 ($1,199.99) on Saturday from 7 AM - Noon ONLY.
This Sears early Black Friday deal is only available while quantities last. There are supposed to be a minimum of 2 LG Plasma TVs per store (no rain checks).

Based on the revealed specs and price, the LG TV on sale is the LG 50PS60.
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Posted on Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Early Walmart Black Friday 26-inch Vizio VW26L HDTV Deal Analyzed

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As reported earlier today, Walmart has unveiled their new early Black Friday deals available in-stores starting this Saturday, November 21st. As we have been doing in previous weeks, we are taking a closer look and analyzing the new early Walmart Black Friday deals to see if they are hot deals or not.

The new round of deals features toys, a 26-inch Vizio HDTV and music video game bundles from the Hero franchise. This report focuses on the 26-inch Vizio HDTV. Starting Saturday Walmart will offer this 26-inch Vizio LCD TV for only $248 (was $347). There is a limit of two per person.
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Posted on Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Bella's HD Mouse 2.0 Launches, Black Friday Special Announced

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Good news gamers, video editors, and anyone else who really likes Bella Corporation's HD Mouse! The company has just announced that the version 2.0 software for their special mouse has shipped, along with the version 3.1 software for their jog/shuttle keyboards. Even more exciting than that is the news that both of these products will be a part of some sweet deals this Black Friday.

First off, we'll cover the changes 2.0 brings to the HD Mouse. Modifier keys now combine with mouse clicks. This allows users to customize up to 48 options on Windows and 96 options on Macs. Mouse clicks can also be programmed into macros now, and up to 3 user profiles can be stored on the mouse. In addition, the HD Mouse is now Win 7/Mac 10.6 compatible, the on-screen-display has been enhanced, HD mode has been tweaked, and tracking has been improved.

Posted on Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:46:25 CST | by Robert Evans

Maingear SHIFT Supercomputer uses Radeon HD 5970 Video Card

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Maingear launched its Shift personal supercomputer a while back. The company has announced that with the official introduction today of the ATI HD 5970 video card it is adding the world's most powerful graphics card to the Shift.

Buyers wanting the best machine they can get can order a pair of the new 5970 video cards inside the Shift giving the machine a whopping 10 teraflops of processing power. I can only imagine the cost of this rig with the two cards. Read more

Posted on Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:50:44 CST | by Shane McGlaun

AMD ATI HD 5970 Becomes Official

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AMD has announced that the ATI HD 5970 is now official. The video card is being hailed as the fastest video card in the world. It is DirectX 11 compliant and supports ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology. The video card can drive up to three displays at once with a maximum resolution of 7680 x 1600.

EA claims that the card delivers nearly five teraflops of processing power. The dual GPUs are built on a 40nm process and have 3,200 stream processors. When the power of both GPUs isn't needed, the card powers down unused resources allowing it to use as little as 42W of power in idle mode. Read more

Posted on Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:49:39 CST | by Shane McGlaun

Pricing for Radeon HD 5970 Leaks

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Pricing for the upcoming AMD 5970 video card has been leaked online early, thanks to a posting from ZipZoomfly. The video card brings back the very expensive high-end video card range with a price of $599.99.

Some specs leaked a while back on the card. We know it will have 1GB of RAM for each of the GPUs on the board. We also know that the early samples were huge at 13.5-inches long. The card also requires an 8-pin and a 6-pin power connector. Read more

Posted on Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:00:00 CST | by Shane McGlaun

PrimeDTV Unveils PHD-HM5 Networked Media Player

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PrimeDTV has announced its latest product called the PHD-HM5. The device is a networked home media player. Amazon named the device one of the ten hottest electronic products for 2009. The player can support almost all video formats in up to 1080p resolution.

The player supports digital music and high-resolution slideshows with digital pictures. The device can also be directly connected to a camcorder or camera to allow users to watch video or view pictures directly on the big screen. Read more

Posted on Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:00:00 CST | by Shane McGlaun

Best Buy Deal Of The Day Is $319.99 32-inch HDTV

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Besides the $249.99 Netbook sale, Best Buy offers again a deal of the day. Today you can buy the 32-inch Proscan 32LC30S60 LCD HDTV for $319.99
32-inch Proscan 32LC30S60 LCD HDTV offers a resolution of 1,366 x 768pixels, 5ms response time, 4500cd/m2 brightness, 3,000:1 contrast ratio, 2HDMI inputs, Built-in HDTV tuner and 178° horizontal and vertical viewing angles.
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Posted on Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Hallods F43: An Actual HD Media Player

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Some media players can output HD, but the new Hallods F43 media player is pretty much the first to actually have HD resolution. It's got a nice, roomy 4.3" screen with 1280x720p resolution. It supports HD videos and micro SDHC cards of up to 16 GB in size. It has 8 GB of internal memory.

Posted on Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:17:00 CST | by Robert Evans

Youtube Starts Streaming 1080p HD Next Week

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Youtube announced that they would begin supporting 1080p HD videos starting next week.
Starting next week, YouTube's HD mode will add support for viewing videos in 720p or 1080p, depending on the resolution of the original source, up from our maximum output of 720p today.
This is great news as more and more users have a box that brings Youtube onto their TV in the living room. Read more

Posted on Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Sony KDL-ZX OLED HDTV Rumored For CES 2010

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Some information on the new upcoming Sony TVs has leaked. One of the leaked models has OLED in the name.
According to slides leaked on HDTVLounge (Via OLED-Display) Sony will add an OLED TV to its ZX series. The Sony ZX series is currently composed of the ultra-thin (9.99mm) Sony KDL-40ZX1 (shown in photo; available in UK).
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Posted on Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Dell Unleashes Inspiron Zino HD Media Box

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Let me take you back to a simpler time; 2004. I was setting up my first media box, cobbled together off of a terrible old Dell machine with less then a gig of RAM. It backed 500 GB of hard drive space though, which was a lot back in those days. While having a media box was far better than not having one, I still had endless problems with the old girl. She crashed constantly and would break frequently for reasons I could rarely work out on my own.

Now kids with fancy TVs and a desire for a media box don't have to worry about repurposing ancient, failing machines to do the job. Several companies have dedicated PCs that were built from the ground-up to be media boxes. Today, Dell unveils another PC in that image; the Inspiron Zino HD.

Posted on Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:26:27 CST | by Robert Evans

Vodafone UK Selling HD2 Now

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Hey, UK gadget nerds, does the idea of a 4.3" capacitive touchscreen or a 1 GHz Snapdragon processor make you weak in the knees? If so, you might be interested in some news my Update Scanner just delivered; the HD2 is now available from Vodafone UK. (BGR) All of the reviews for this sweet new smartphone have been very complementary on the hardware. The OS, Windows Mobile 6.5, has taken a lot of flak however.

That said, this smartphone does run the HTC Sense UI over 6.5, which is supposed to deal with the bulk of most users WinMo complaints. It's a shame that such a gorgeous device has to be hobbled with such a mediocre OS, but life isn't fair. I'm still holding onto the hope that HTC will roll out the HTC Dragon, an Android-running HTC HD2, soon.

Posted on Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:35:47 CST | by Robert Evans

New Asus O!Play Air HDP-R3 Unveiled

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Asus unveiled the new O!Play Air HDP-R3 HD media player.
The O!Play Air HDP-R3 inherits premium High Definition playback features and extremely wide file format support from its predecessor, the O!Play HDP-R1 media player.
However, the new O!Play Air HDP-R3 further raises the bar on performance by including new networking features and convenient memory slots for rapid and convenient digital data access. Equipped with the latest Wi-Fi support, the HD media player streams content wirelessly from PCs and NAS. Also, built-in card reader slots allow users to access digital files and photos effortlessly from CompactFlash (CF) and Secure Digital (SD/MMC) cards, or Memory Sticks (MS/MS Duo)—enabling users to view digital photos instantly. Read more

Posted on Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Hot Flip Ultra And UltraHD Sale With Two Free Accessories On Amazon

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The first weekend of great early Black Friday deals is behind us, but that does not mean there are no deals to be had today. Amazon has a great offer today for instance. The Flip camcorders are still extremely hot gadgets despite similar offers from other camcorder makers that are now available.
If you want the original, Amazon now has a very hot sale on the Flip Ultra and the Flip UltraHD until November 18th.
Besides really low prices for the Flip Ultra (price in shopping cart: $122.99, MSRP: $149.99) and the Flip UltraHD (price in shopping card: $159.99, MSRP: $199.99) you get two free accessories.
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Posted on Mon, 9 Nov 2009 07:20:37 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Early Best Buy Black Friday Deals Feature $498.99 42-inch HDTVs

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This is how we like it. Best Buy just published on their homepage a deal on a 42-inch Panasonic Plasma HDTV for $498.99. Finding a 42-inch HDTV for under $500 has not been easy so far. I could not not find one on Amazon for instance. We reported this week that Walmart is offering a 42-inch Sharp LCD HDTV for $498 tomorrow. Best Buy is apparently attacking this Walmart early Black Friday deal.

Best Buy offers the Panasonic TC-P42C1 42-inch Plasma HDTV for $498.99. I actually prefer this TV over the Walmart offer, which is a 42-inch Sharp LC42SB45UT for $498. Best Buy sells the TC-P42C1 online right now here - better hurry.
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Posted on Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:47:06 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr