Kogan’s New LED Backlid Screens Are Stylish And Cheap

Gizmodo AU

Kogan’s never been the type of company to shy away from publicity so it’s no surprise that the announcement of their latest LED backlit TVs is, according to the press release, the beginning of a “price war”.


August 10, 2010

Grundig Brings LED Backlighting To Their LCDs

Gizmodo AU

There’s no arguing with the fact that LED sounds so much more attractive than CCFL when it comes to discussing LCD backlighting. Can’t say whether that entered Grundig’s thoughts when it came to releasing their first LED backlit LCDs though…


May 19, 2010

Tyagi Jumps On The LED LCD Bandwagon

Gizmodo AU

At $525, Tyagi’s 24-inch LED-backlit LCD screen is quite possibly the cheapest LED backlit TV available in Australia. It is, however, kind of ugly.


April 15, 2010

Toshiba Regza Z1 LED TVs Can Record Over LAN

Toshiba introduced a whole mess of new Regza LED LCD TVs today over in Japan, but it’s the Z1 series that grabbed our attention: 37- to 55-inch, edge-lit LEDs with USB and LAN recording functionality. Gimme!


March 25, 2010

LG’s LX9500 3DTV Will Go On Sale May

Panasonic and Samsung already have their 3DTV sets on store shelves in the US, and Sony will launch theirs in June. LG? Well, they did launch a set in Korea last year, but their new LX9500 will debut this May.


March 24, 2010

Russian Cows Watch Samsung LED TV

I’ve heard the one about vegetables growing bigger if you play classical music at them, but cows that watch TV (of the Swiss Alps, no less) makes them “more happy and productive”?


March 23, 2010

Toshiba UX600 LED HDTV Packs Vudu Movies And Wi-Fi Adaptor

Our society, spoiled by the endless diversions of the internet, now demands more than mere television of its televisions. Toshiba understands, packing Vudu Movies and a host of web content into its Wi-Fi friendly UX600 1080p HDTV.


January 15, 2010

New Laser Displays Use 75% Less Power Than Today’s Screens

LCDs, make way for LPDs. Xconomy reports on a California startup’s new laser phosphor displays (LPDs) that use just 25 per cent of the electricity required by today’s liquid-crystal displays (LCD) or LEDs.


January 8, 2010

Hands On: Samsung C9000 TV, Wi-Fi Video Touchscreen Remote

The brushed-aluminum LED-lit C9000 is not just the handsomest slender TV at the show, it comes with the most innovative Wi-Fi remote control – one that looks suspiciously like an iPhone and feels suspiciously like a Samsung phone.


Philips Eco LED TVs Stream Netflix While Saving The Earth

Philips just announced three new eco-friendly TVs, called the 4000, 5000 and 7000 Eco TV. The “green” part comes with the 40 per cent energy reduction thanks to the LEDs, as well as some safer hardware materials (lead-free, mercury-free, that kind of thing).