Thinnest HDTV (AMOLED) Revealed by Samsung

Samsung has revealed a host of display units that are powered by the new AMOLED technologies - including a full sized 30" display at SID 2008.

Since this is the first time we’ve covered AMOLED’s lets first look at how they work.

Sony Tru2Way - No more set top boxes

Sony, by far one of the largest manufacturers of Home Theater and other entertainment electronics, in the world, and one of the larger producers of multi-media content has tied up with six of the top cable companies in the United States to use Tru2Way - a technology that eliminates set-top boxes used in cable and interactive service offerings.

Samsung’s PAVV HDTV is 3D Ready, Has 1,000,000:1 Contrast Ratio

Samsung has announced that it will be releasing the world’s first Plasma HDTV with 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio — no, we’re not joking, a 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio, which, if you’re counting, is enough contrast ratio to hollow our your eye sockets.

Excited?

The TV is also 3D-ready, that’s right — not HD-ready, but 3D-ready, meaning you can watch 3D movies or play 3D games with the dinky, silly, headache causing 3D glasses we all simultaneously love and hate — isn’t technology grand?

Asus HDTV Suite-HDMI Turns Monitor into HDTV

Ever wanted to watch the Chocolate Rain guy in HD without getting up from your computer chair? Well, Asus does too, which is why they released their new Asus HDTV Suite-HDMI today.

The standalone TV box allows users to turn their PC monitors into full HD TV sets as well as act as multimedia centers without even having to turn on the actual PC — turning what you always sort of considered your window for pornography into so much more.

Matsushita Building LCD Factory

Matsushita — famed for its Panasonic brand — has announced that it will be building an LCD factory in western Japan by 2010. The move is most likely a response to recent decline in Plasma TV sales as compared to LCD TVs — something you probably wished you knew about when you bought your shiny new Plasma TV.

The factory will cost a reported $2.8 billion dollars and should be able to make 15 million 32-inch LCD panels per year — this finally begins Matsushita’s plans of taking over the world by blanketing it in high-definition TVs.

HD-DVD Officially Dead

That’s all, folks. As more and more companies have either marginalized or dropped Toshiba’s HD DVD player, we and the rest of the world called for Toshiba to admit defeat and let it die — but the company bravely marched on. Until now.

Toshiba Corp. President Atsutoshi Nishida announced that Toshiba would be officially dropping the format — crowning the Blu-Ray king of High-Definition Video. How did Nishida make the announcement? Like every good Japanese male — proudly and with much honor.

Toshiba’s HD DVD Format To Be Pulled?

We’ve been covering the HD DVD/Blu-Ray battle for the last few weeks now, with Sony delivering a few key blows to Toshiba’s baby, the HD DVD. We also may have, in passing, made a few jokes about Toshiba pulling the plug and, you know, killing aforementioned baby.

So far, Toshiba hasn’t listened and kept on fighting vehemently — however, rumors are coming from someone close to the HD DVD faction at Toshiba says the company is expecting to let the HD DVD die in a few weeks.

Well, now that it may be real, it’s just not funny anymore.

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