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DMN Newswire--2009-7-7--Hanover/Banff. The 2009 Deluxe Outstanding Technical Achievement Award was presented to DVS at the Banff World Television Festival .

July 9, 2009, 03:57 PM - PC World - Sony Electronics was early to offer HDTVs capable of connecting to the Internet, but the company has been missing one very obvious streaming video provider-until now.

There are just two months to go before CEDIA kicks off in Atlanta, but Sharp's obviously not down with waiting 'til the Fall to introduce its latest gaggle of AQUOS HDTVs.

SHARP WILL ROLL OUT new Aquos LCD HDTVs featuring LED backlighting at comparatively more affordable prices than rivals Sony and Samsung.

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Armed with a slew of consumer acquisitions ranging from Linksys to Scientific-Atlanta and Pure Digital , Cisco Systems is poised to build a template for what it calls the CE company, Version 2.0." That's something Sony Corp.

Some 25% of LCD TVs shipped in the first quarter were made by external OEMs/EMS, up 1% sequentially.

Best Selling Plasma TV Stands The new 64GB HDR-CX520V and 32GB HDR-CX500V are identical aside from the built-in storage capacities.

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In this Jan. 7, 2008 file photo, Sony's 11-inch OLED digital televisions are showcased at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

The good: Sleek design, seamless Blu-ray functionality, plenty of RAM, good battery life.

Multitouch chipset firm N-trig have announced a partnership with Fujitsu to produce their next breed of DuoSense touchscreen controllers.A The next-gen DuoSense system will not only be smaller than the existing version, but require less power and recognize "10 or more simultaneous touch points at very high refresh rates." A The technology will come ...

Samsung's LED TV sets may not represent a huge leap in picture quality over the current generation of LCD TVs, but the new LED sets sure are thin.

Press release; Yvonne Yu, DIGITIMES [Thursday 2 July 2009] Shipments of LCD TVs in India are set to surpass those of CRT TVs by 2012 as the country undergoes a rapid transition to the flat-panel technology, according to iSuppli.

In the market for a new TV? These days, there are bargains galore, especially when it comes to those with plasma screens.A The Wall Street Journal reports that the growing popularity of their LCD cousins has TV makers such as Pioneer and Vizio phasing out their entire plasma TV line-ups. Others may soon follow suit.

Panasonic has a new weapon in its recycling arsenal for dealing with cathode ray tubes from old televisions: a powerful laser that can quickly weaken the thick glass and enable a three-fold increase in processing speed.

South Korea's LG Display Co Ltd said on Wednesday it was considering building an additional production line for flat-screen TV panels as the LCD industry slowly recovers due to healthy TV sales.

By and large, there's nothing too incredible about LG 's latest LCD HDTV. It's 22-inches, can double as a PC monitor, boasts a deceiving 2,000,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio and consumes some 40 percent less power than the average Earth-hating 22-inch LCD .

Sony and Sharp have agreed to set up a joint venture to produce next-generation LCD panels, the Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun reported Monday.

The good: Wirelessly streams a PC's screen and audio to TVs; supports resolution up to 1,600x1,200 pixels; easy-to-use software.

On the shopping list for budget-minded consumers: groceries, gas -- and a new flat-panel TV? Shelling out hundreds of dollars on a television is hardly wallet-friendly, but LCD and plasma sets have been flying off the shelves all year, with some retailers saying TV sales are better now than they were during the holiday season.