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Ostendo’s Crazy Curved Monitor Can Finally Be Yours

3:20PM Rosa Golijan | Ostendo’s super curvy CRVD monitor wasn’t actually for sale when we first saw it, but it looked damn good. Judging by this video which uses three of the monitors, it still looks incredible. And now you can actually buy it. More »
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SED: The TV That Never Was (And Probably Never Will Be…)

12:00PM Nick Broughall | Back in 2004, Canon – a company known for their cameras – got together with Toshiba to announce the Next Big Thing in TV technology: SED. Five years later, SED has become the television equivalent of Duke Nukem Forever – a lofty concept that sounded great, but we’ve given up on ever seeing its arrival. More »
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HD Guru’s 10 Best TVs You Can Buy (Including Our Top 5)

5:59AM Wilson Rothman | As you saw last week, HD Guru Gary Merson teamed up with Gizmodo to publish the five best TVs you can buy. Today he rounds out the list to an even 10, tossing in more picks in a wider price range, many with better availability than the tippy tops. Here’s the full rundown: [HD Guru]
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Television In The Third Dimension

12:00PM Nick Broughall | The human body is a marvellous thing. The very fact that we have two eyes means that we view everything in three dimensions, a talent that cannot be overstated. However, for years, television engineers have been trying to develop ways that we can trick our brains into thinking that we can see a three dimensional image from a two-dimensional screen. And now it’s the Next Big Thing in TVs. More »
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The Five Best TVs You Can Buy

7:20AM Gary Merson | We’ve teamed up with the HD Guru himself, Gary Merson, to publish the absolute best five TVs you can buy right now. As you’ll see (and might already notice above), there are some surprises on the list. More »
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Video: Sony’s Massive 280-inch (711cm) 3D LED Display

11:34PM Danny Allen | Similar to Mitsubishi’s 155-inch OLED screen, Sony’s huge display is made of individual panels (70 smaller LED screens in this case) and is designed for outdoor marketing. You know, because we all carry around polarised glasses, right? More »
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100Hz: Saving LCDs From Motion Judder Since 2006

12:00PM Nick Broughall | LCD’s Achilles’ heel has always been its ability to show fast moving images. Watching sports or fast-paced action films on an early LCD screen was terrible, thanks to the technology’s inadequate refresh rate. But just like introducing LED backlighting helped LCD display blacks better and more vivid colours, the introduction of 100Hz technology went a long way to eliminating the motion judder caused by fast-moving pictures. More »
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The Epic HDTV Buyer’s Guide Flowchart

11:00AM Sean Fallon | Not sure what HDTV you should buy this Christmas? Thank god we have flowcharts to make the process easier. More »
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Giz Explains: The Difference Between A $US600 TV And A $US6000 TV

7:20AM Matt Buchanan | You can buy an HDTV, a nice big one, for six hundred bucks. Or you can pay six thousand. It’s presumably somehow better. You’re probably wondering, “What the hell makes it better?” Here’s the breakdown. More »
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LED Backlighting Is LCD’s Trump Card

12:00PM Nick Broughall | Up until recently, LCDs just couldn’t compete with plasmas when it came to showing blacks or colours. They weren’t just bad, either: they sucked, at least in comparison to plasma. But then came LED backlighting, and things changed. More »