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Manufacturers, let me save you some money. It won’t be much, but something is better than nothing. But more importantly you would be helping out the consumers actually spending money on your products. So please, stop including standard A/V cables with Blu-ray players. We don’t need anymore of them, thankyouverymuch. Every household in America already [...]

The Guinness Book of Records files some of the most interesting and utterly useless records for our entertainment, constantly looking for more weird entries to fill the books each year. A new entry into the Guinness book of records is the awesome High-definition (HD) video screen(s) present above the Dallas Cowboys' football stadium in the United states.

Manufactured by Mitsubishi Electric, the giant four-sided screen has a surface area of about 1058 sq m (11,400 sq ft). "This is probably the most exciting project we've ever been involved with," said Mark Foster of Mitsubishi Electric.

Mitsubishi said the video board is the equivalent size of 3,268 52-inch television sets, packs more than 10 million light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and with all four panels account for, weighs around 600 tonnes.

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Today, during a series of events held at local TV retail stores in Los Angeles, Fresno and San Francisco, Californians for Smart Energy released the findings of a new statewide poll that found that 57 percent of Californian's oppose the California Energy Commission's (CEC's) proposal to regulate television electricity usage. Conducted by Zogby International (see memo at: http://casmartenergy.com/in-the-news.php), other key findings included...

Did you know that getting new TVs can help save the environment? Well, Samsung executives seem to believe so in promoting new energy-saving technology. This technology allows next-generation HDTVs, notebooks, and mobile devices to consume less power, therefore cutting electric bills down.
Scott Birnbaum, vice president of Samsung’s LCD business, said that this technology is already [...]

According to a new Piper Jaffray note this week, analyst Gene Munster says he expects Apple to eventually get into the HDTV market providing a full home entertainment system alongside the Apple TV media device.

Additionally, Munster says that a new, updated Apple TV is coming before Christmas, including DVR and a monthly sub to iTunes TV shows.

"We believe Apple is exploring a subscription-based offering for its TV content in iTunes," says Munster, via The Street. "Apple could leverage its deep library of content with many network and cable channel content owners to provide unlimited access to a sub-library of its TV shows for a standard monthly fee."

Adds Apple COO Tim Cook of the Apple TV:

"It is clear that the movie rental business has really helped Apple TV and there are more and more customers that want to try it," he says, noting that sales were up 300 percent year-on-year. "We're going to continue to invest in it, because we fundamentally believe there is something there for ...

The economic downturn no doubt helped push some manufacturers (like Pioneer) out of the plasma market, but the recession may now be saving plasmas from the brink of obsolescence. According to a new report from Quixel Research, plasma HDTVs have zoomed to a huge gain in 2Q of 2009, with 42 percent more units sold [...]

I'm curious to know—when you bought your HDTV, did you just plug and play or did you fine tune the settings?

Do You Ever Adjust Your HDTV Settings?(polls)

A con artist was cooking up something pretty crazy last week. High-Def Digest readers know that no one is going to sell you a 37” Sony HDTV for $100, but Anthony Miles, 52, was looking for some very...