Samsung Slashes HDTV Prices For Black Friday Week

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Samsung announced today to offer 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 is featuring is not listed. The featured Plasma models are not showing up in price comparison services either. This does not mean these are bad TVs, but sure not the latest generation. The specifications of some Samsung 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

Walmart Black Friday TV Deals Are Hot And Not

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TV deals are possibly the most wanted on Black Friday. According to the leaked Walmart Black Friday Ad, Walmart will feature deals on Sony, Samsung, Emerson, RCA and Samsung TVs.
The Sanyo 50-inch Plasma 720p HDTV for $598 that Walmart will offer in-stores on Black Friday is possibly the best deal if big size for the lowest price is your formula.

It gets trickier when we look at what looks like one of the hottest TV deals at the Walmart Black Friday Sales event. The 46-inch Sony Bravia KDL-46S504 1080p HDTV will sell for $798 (Via BFAds).
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Posted on Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:45:58 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Best Buy Offers TVs At Black Friday Prices Online Now

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Best Buy touts their HDTV deals with Black Friday prices online right now.
The early Best Buy Black Friday deal includes several 32-inch HDTVs at $299.99 and one 40-inch full HD TV priced at $499.99.

All offered TVs are from Dynex and the 32-inch models are all 720p and 60Hz LCD TVs.
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Posted on Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

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

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

Vizio Takes Top spot in US TV Shipments

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Vizio has announced that it has continued sticking it to the big name brands and has again grabbed the top spot on the list of LCD TV shippers in America. In Q3 2009 Vizio grew its LCD sales 87% compared to Q3 2008. Vizio also grew 200% in full 1080p HDTVs and premium features like 120Hz and 240Hz refresh rates.

According to iSuppli, Vizio shipped about 4,075,000 TVs for the year so far while Samsung took second place with 3,894,000 units shipped. Sony was in third with 2,362,000 units shipped, LG was fourth with 1,739,000, and Toshiba took the fifth spot with 1,686,000 units shipped. Read more

Posted on Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:00:00 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

Nokia 5330 Mobile TV Edition launched

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Nokia today announced the Nokia 5330 Mobile TV Edition, a phone that combines mobile broadcast TV (DVB-H), social networking, music and gaming into one compact 3G device.
The Nokia 5330 Mobile TV Edition DVB-H tuner allows you to watch TV on the go on a QVGA 2.4" screen.

Other features of the Nokia 5330 Mobile TV Edition include 3.5mm headphone plug, 3.2 megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom and LED flash and social networking software integration. Read more

Posted on Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:31:21 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

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

Sony XBR12 OLED TV Will Be 21'', Debute At CES 2010

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Don't lie; if you had thousands of dollars of expendable income to burn through, you'd buy one. OLED TVs are too hot for any geek to not want, and too expensive for most of us to even consider. While we don't have too long to wait before OLED becomes cheaper than LCD, it's still a few years off. This year at CES 2010 we'll get a chance to see a major step forward in this technology.

Currently, LG's 15" TV is the largest commercially available OLED TV. However, Electronista has heard word that Sony is about to bring out an OLED TV that beats LGs by 10". The XBR11 will be a 21" HD OLEDTV with a 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio and a greater than 720p resolution.

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Posted on Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:28:16 CST | by Robert Evans

FLO TV Is Shipping

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FLO TV, provider of FLO TV live mobile TV service and a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm, announced today that the FLO TV Personal Television is shipping.
The FLO TV Personal Television is a portable TV with a 3.5 inch capacitive touch-screen that measures 4.4 inches by 3 inches by .5 inches. The weight of the portable digital TV is just over 5 ounces. Read more

Posted on Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:00:00 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

TVGuide.com Launches Online DVR

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TVGuide.com has announced that it is now offering an online DVR that allows users to watch their favorite shows as soon as they are available directly from TVGuide.com. the service is called My TVGuide DVR and isn’t a DVR like we are used to in our living rooms.

The service appears to be more of an online aggregator for getting you new episodes of your favorite shows when the network puts the new episodes online. The service will also send you messages to let you know that new episodes are available. Read more

Posted on Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:00:00 CST | by Shane McGlaun

Sony Networked TV and Blu-ray Owners Get Exclusive Movie Access Before Release

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Today Sony announced that owners of Sony networked BRAVIA HDTVs and Blu-ray Disc players will be able to get an exclusive in-home offer to rent the Sony Pictures animated hit, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, four weeks before it is available at retail.
Starting today, customers who purchase a networked BRAVIA HDTV or Blu-ray Disc player and register the device between Nov. 9, 2009 and Jan. 4, 2010, will receive a free 24-hour rental of the movie in high definition (a value of $24.95).
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Posted on Mon, 9 Nov 2009 07:59:29 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

LG 15-Inch OLED TV Now Largest Commercially Available OLED TV

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LG unveiled a sexy 15-inch OLED TV at the IFA 2009 in August. This week the LG OLED TV is on sale in South Korea according to the Korea Times (via Oled-display).
The LG OLED TV is now the world's largest commercially available OLED TV. Sony was the first to offer an OLED TV with the XEL-1. The Sony OLED only has an 11-inch screen. Read more

Posted on Mon, 9 Nov 2009 07:07:03 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

New Apple TV 3.0.1 Update Fixes Critical Issue

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Apple released the new 3.0 Apple TV software update on October 30th. Yesterday Apple released an emergency update that Apple advises you to install immediately if you have already installed 3.0 on your Apple TV.
The new Apple TV version 3.0.1 prevents content from temporarily disappearing until it is resynced. Read more

Posted on Sun, 8 Nov 2009 11:00:00 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

LG 55LH40 55-inch 120Hz LCD HDTV Has Bargain Price On Amazon

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If you look closely you can already find extremely good deals on Amazon.com today, before the whole Black Friday deal bonanza even begins.
I stumbled over the LG 55LH40 55-inch 120Hz LCD HDTV in the Electronics Movers and Shakers list on Amazon. It has improved its sales rank by over 3,000%. At first I though the $1,472 price tag (list: $2,199.95) is the reason for this rise, but it could be a much lower price actually.
Amazon has a See Price In Cart offer on the LG 55LH40 of only $1,198.94. I could not find this big LCD 120Hz LCD HDTV at even close to that price anywhere else (Compare Prices).
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Posted on Thu, 5 Nov 2009 11:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Apple To Provide TV Through iTunes?

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I don't have access to cable TV, but I do have the Internet and an iTunes account. If I could pay $30 to get access to a wide variety of TV shows through iTunes, I'd be sorely tempted. Apple is apparently betting that there are a lot of people like me. According to AllThingsDigital Apple is pitching that very idea to several TV networks. And no, before you ask, this service has nothing to do with Apple TV.

There are over 65 million people with iTunes accounts. A potential audience of that size must look very good to the networks. While none of them have bought into the plan yet, it seems likely that Apple will be able to convince at least a few that its service has a future. The All Things Digital article states that Disney is one of the companies being courted.

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Posted on Mon, 2 Nov 2009 11:56:57 CST | by Robert Evans

Samsung UN55B7100 LED HDTV Review

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The 55-inch Samsung is the top LED TV in the Samsung 7 series. Compared to the UN55B7000 the UN55B7100 features 3,000,000:1 Mega Contrast. Besides that I could not find a difference besides the difference in the frame color.
Of course the Samsung UN55B7100 (MSRP $3,599.99) is not as advanced as the current ultimate LED HDTV from Samsung. The Samsung UN55B8500 (MSRP $4,499.99) has a 7,000,000:1 Mega Contrast and 240Hz instead of 120Hz.
To see if the Samsung UN55B7100 is still a great choice for an LED TV consult this review just posted by HardwareCanucks.
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Posted on Mon, 2 Nov 2009 03:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr