Mustek’s LTV-4210 is a 42″ 1080p LCD TV that will be showcased during CES 2007. The 42″ LCD will have a 176-degree viewing angle, 6.5ms response time, 1200:1 contrast ratio (dynamic, actual will be less, quite a bit less), and 550 cd/m2 of brightness. In addition, the LTV-4210 will sport HDMI, an integrated ATSC tuner, [...]

Pittsburgh’s Heinz Field has a scoreboard that is fit for an upgrade. The scoreboard has a low-tech SD resolution and has been there since 2001. Time to upgrade. Daktronics will be manufacturing the new scoreboard and will be installed in 2007. The new system will focus on improving viewing angles to allow 3600 additional ticket [...]

Hitachi has increased the pixel format to an amazing 480 x 800 in a small 2.9″ LCD. A couple of sources (Techon, Engadget) incorrectly states that it is a 800 x 480, but looking at where the connections are (column drivers) it is definitely a portrait display. Of course, you can simply put it on [...]

Mitsubishi’s RDT221WM is a 22″ wide LCD monitor in black or white. The pixel format is 1680 x 1050, which is standard on the new crop of 22″ LCD monitors, has a 160-degree viewing angle (quite low, if you ask me), 300 cd/m2 of brightness and a 800:1 contrast ratio. The response time is 5ms. [...]

Engadget has a blog post about Dell’s 2007WFP. Some have noted that its actually a 2707WFP, a 27″ LCD monitor. Well, the redesign sure is different from the current 20″ wide models. I am not aware that a 27″ is in the works, but if it is, then most likely it’ll have a 1920 x [...]

Nichia, a Japanese manufacturer of LEDs, announced that it has reached an efficacy of 150 lm/W (that’s lumen per watt) with a drive current of 20 mA. The luminus flux of this new high-bright LED is 9.4 lm at a color temperature of 4600 K. The efficacy of 150 lm/W is much higher than conventional [...]

SED, which stands for surface-conduction electron-emitter display, is the result of a joint venture between Canon and Toshiba. While Toshiba has already manufactured demo units and has showcased them to many CES goers in 2006, that will not be the case due to some legal issues that Canon is sorting out. Canon is working with [...]

Dell announced its XPS M1710 notebook PC in the South Korean market. The XPS M1710 sports a 17″ LCD display with a resolution of 1920 x 1200. The special feature of this XPS is the inclusion of a Blu-ray drive. Other features include an Intel Core 2 Duo T7600 CPU running at 2.33GHz and a [...]

Toshiba’s SD-P90DT is a portable DVD player, but it can also be used as a mobile TV via its 1-seg capability. Of course, 1-seg mobile TV service means you’re limited to the Japanese market. The SD-P90DT is DivX Home Theater Certified and can playback CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DivX, MP3 and WMA formated disks. With a portable [...]

Samsung showcased its SPH-B5800 mobile phone that is T-DMB capable and supports TPEG. First, T-DMB allows you to watch TV on your mobile telly. TPEG is short for Transport Protocol Experts Group and updates traffic, restaurant and tourism information every five minutes via the T-DMB connection. Typical GPS-like features include driver’s destination and expected arrival [...]