With Avatar 3D now the official Hollywood codeword for potloads of cash, three-dimensional telly is currently bigger than Ben Hur . Already a big player in the flat panel TV market, Samsung has wasted no time embracing 3D,...

Around this time of year, we get an “itch” – not just tech heads or sports nuts, but a large chunk of the populace – to start looking at a potential purchase of a television. It’s for two different reasons; one, a big game’s coming up pretty soon. Watching the Super Bowl on a big screen (along with a few pizzas, dip trays, and assorted fizzy beverages) is just enough of a motivator to shove ...

It's another broadband type idiosyncrasy: HDTV set owners don't necessarily have HDTV programming. Much like consumers who purchased broadband/high speed ready computers in the early 2000's, the availability of the programming hasn't reached everyone owning the technology. A new report from Frank Magid Associates about 43% of US households own a high definition type television set but about 14 ...

Mediacom Communications, in agreement with NBC Universal, today announced that its customers will have more ways to view the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games than in the past.

Allen B. DuMont will advance television by making the CRT a practical picture tube. He'll manufacture TV sets and start a network to provide programming.