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CES 2009 preview: Televisions (cnet.com.au)

This year's CES will bring the usual array of extremely large, easy-to-write-about televisions, as well as OLED, LED LCDs, 200Hz, dejuddering and ultrathins.

Eviant introduces 4.3-, 7- and 19-inch digital televisions at CES (Engadget)

Can't say we've ever heard of Eviant, but it's tough to ignore a 4.3-inch television . No, we didn't mistakenly write "television" in place of "digiframe" -- the company is seriously pumping out 4.3-inch (T4) and 7-inch (T7) digital portable televisions, both of which are fully prepared to handle the looming DTV transition . Without any additional hardware, both sets can receive ATSC ...

Samsung Electronics to Release DivX Certified Digital Televisions to Global Market (Broadcast Newsroom)

SAN DIEGO and SEOUL, South Korea , Jan. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- DivX, Inc. (Nasdaq: DIVX), a digital media company, and Samsung Electronics Co, Ltd, a market leader and award-winning innovator in consumer electronics, today announced that the first DivX Certified Samsung flat-panel HD television (HDTV) will be available in global markets in March 2009 . The Samsung HDTV achieved DivX ...

California targets flat screen televisions to save energy (Daily Telegraph)

California is planning to phase out energyguzzling flat screen televisions to reduce pressure on the state's overstretched power grid.

Samsung Electronics to Release DivX Certified Digital Televisions to Global Market (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

Quality Playback of DivX Video Following Multi-year Licensing Agreement between Two Companies

Millions Of Televisions Still Not Digital Ready (CBS 2 Los Angeles)

Next month, tens of millions of Americans may be watching static on their older TV sets. That's because of the government mandated switch to digital broadcasting - 69 million television sets in use today won't get the signal - and because a federal coupon program to provide converter boxes is on the rocks.

Men crash into St. Louis store, steal TVs (The Kansas City Star)

ST. LOUIS | St. Louis police are searching for two men who crashed an SUV through a store, then stole televisions.

Panasonic Will ‘Come Close’ to Meeting TV Sales Goal (Update1) (Bloomberg)

Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Panasonic Corp. , the world’s largest maker of consumer electronics, will “come close” to meeting its target to sell 11 million flat-panel televisions this fiscal year, President Fumio Ohtsubo said.

Ex-worker gets year in prison for theft at UC Davis (The Sacramento Bee)

A former University of California, Davis, employee was sentenced Tuesday in federal court to a year and a day in prison for theft of government property. Beverly Benford of Sacramento pleaded guilty in June, admitting a six-year spree of spending federal funds on hundreds of items for herself, including iPods, camcorders, digital cameras, home security systems, televisions and stereos. ...

Police: Man loots eatery, calls cab (The Toledo Blade)

Call it theft by cab. Toledo cab driver Harold Webb said he wasn't suspicious - at first - when a passenger he picked up near a downtown restaurant was toting three flat-screen televisions, followed by several boxes of liquor. After all, the man had a reason for having all that loot: He claimed the restaurant was filing for bankruptcy and he was taking the property to his boss. But when ...