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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.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. ...
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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 ...
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