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HDTV Almanac - Silly Season in Full Swing

By Alfred Poor • 14 hours ago

Okay, if you want the coolest bargains on HDTVs, you probably will have to spend all your time just tracking the deals. In addition to the sales circulars and online specials posted at the retailers’ Web sites, you can also check out the various Black Friday sites or monitor the year-’round bargain aggregators such as [...]

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HDTV Almanac - California Choose Stick Over Carrot

By Alfred Poor • Nov 19, 1:00pm

Yesterday, the California Energy Commission (CEC) made it official, and unanimously adopted new energy requirements for televisions sold in the state. It sets electricity consumption limits for sets up to 58″ diagonal. The first level takes effect January 2011, at which time one source indicates a 42″ must not consumer more than 183 watts. In [...]

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HDTV Almanac - New Lamps for Old!

By Alfred Poor • Nov 18, 1:00pm

An evil sorcerer tricked Aladdin’s wife into giving him the magic lamp by offer to swap new lamps for old. It’s no trick this time around, however, as Warner Brothers has launched a campaign that lets you trade in your old WB DVDs in exchange for the same titles in Blu-ray format. They have set [...]

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HDTV Almanac - 3M Promotes Energy Star for HDTVs

By Alfred Poor • Nov 17, 1:00pm

The HDTV world is flat and turning green. Plasma and LCD panels dominate, and now manufacturers are fighting over who can make the most environmentally-friendly televisions (since there are relatively few other meaningful differences among their features). And one of the key focal points for these efforts is to use less power. The good news [...]

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HDTV Almanac - Bugged, But It Could Be Good

By Alfred Poor • Nov 16, 1:00pm

My entry last Friday about advertising on television shows streamed over the Web hit a few nerves over on HDTV Magazine where the Almanac is republished every day. It generated a long string of comments that covered a wide range of issues, from how much people pay for television service in their homes, to how [...]

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