Western Digital has a new device called the WD TV HD Media Player that will connect to any USB drive and play the video files out to your HDTV via HDMI. This little device will only set you back about $130. Product Features * Compatible with My Passport portable hard drives and other [...]

Panasonic has added two new plasma HDTV’s to their VIERA PZ850 lineup — a 58-inch and a 65-inch. Both new models are internet-enabled so you can web streams as well as online photo albums in full 1080p glory. The two new displays will have 30,000:1 contrast ratios, 24p reproduction, game mode, an SD card slot, [...]

Have you heard about the Sony XEL-1 11-inch OLED HDTV? This 1080p display is only 3mm thick and uses 40 percent less energy than a comparable LED display. Also of note, OLED displays can prevent light emission when reproducing shades of black, resulting in very deep blacks and a contrast ratio of over 1,000,000:1. [...]

A couple weeks ago, I came across a small set-top dipole television antenna that wasn’t being used, and decided I ought to give that to my parents who recently bought a 42-inch LCD HDTV. Their television programming comes mainly from a DISH satellite which is only standard definition, so I figured that if they could [...]