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LRG: Nearly half of all U.S. households have a digital video recorder

By Darco | November 7, 2011

New consumer research from Leichtman Research Group (LRG) found that 44 percent of TV households in the United States have at least one DVR, and one-third of DVR households have more than one DVR – representing 14 percent of all households having multiple DVRs. In 2005, just 8 percent of all households had a DVR.

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What is Super High Definition?

By Darco | September 19, 2011

When HD TV arrived on the market, the publicity said that it was the finest image that we could produce, at the time, of course this was accurate, but in just a handful of years, the technology has taken another enormous step forward.

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Logitech’s energy infographic reveals the extraordinary facts about solar technology

By Darco | July 28, 2011

The sun is the largest energy source available to us. With this in mind, Logitech’s team of engineers behind the Logitech Wireless Solar Keyboard K750, has developed an infographic to highlight the extraordinary facts behind the solar system’s largest star.

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Insights into LED-Backlit HDTVs

By Darco | May 28, 2011

As if knowing the differences between HDTVs wasn’t hard enough, there are subtle but important distinctions between LED TV models. But first, what exactly is an LED TV? LED TVs are simply LCD TVs that use LEDs as backlights instead of CCFLs (cold cathode tubes). There are three different ways that LEDs can be used to illuminate the screen. The style of backlighting plays a major role in the final quality of your display, and knowing the differences can help you pick a better model for your needs.

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Samsung BD-D7000 is World’s smallest Blu-ray Player

By Darco | April 7, 2011

Despite the modest size—it measures just 180 x 180 x 30.5 mm—it can play both 2D and 3D Blu-ray discs, automatically converting the former to three dimensions on the fly, and offers the same features as much bigger models.  A built-in media player can access most common video formats (including JPEG, MP3, AVI, DivX HD or MKV) if you connect an external device formatted using NTFS.  Support for BD-Live comes via 1 GB of internal memory, and the BD-D7000 has many of the same Internet services as Samsung’s latest TVs.  It supports the DLNA standard to access content from elsewhere on your home network. Tiny player is expected this month for still unknown price.

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LG passive 3D technology coming to your home in 2011

By Darco | March 24, 2011

LG showed a lot of new products at this year’s CES in Las Vegas, with the most interesting segment being in passive 3D technology. In 2010, all worldwide available TV sets were using active 3D technology, both for LCD and plasma screens.

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