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One of the easiest ways to Beat Black Friday is to look for package deals. Having a 50” plasma hanging on the wall is great, but seeing is only half the battle. You need a little sound to round out the experience. But if you’re shopping for a 720p plasma around Black Friday, something tells me you don’t have a multi-thousand-dollar budget for audio.  Luckily, Best Buy currently (until midnight Saturday) has a tidy little package consisting of the PN50B450 50” 720p plasma and HT-Z320… View this story
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The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) has vowed to pursue legal and legislation solutions to yesterday’s decision by the California Energy Commission (CEC) to impose energy-efficiency requirements on TVs sold in the state. The standards require that new televisions sold in California consume 33 percent less electricity by 2011 and 49 percent less electricity by 2013. The standards affect only those TVs with a screen size 58 inches or smaller. For example, a 42-inch screen would consume 183 watts or less by 2011 and 115 watts… View this story
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Zip Express Installation has scored another win for its home entertainment and networking installation business. The company has partnered with Shopko, a $2 billion regional retailer of everything from pharmaceuticals to optical services to home entertainment gear. Shopko, headquartered in Green Bay, Wis., has 136 stores in 13 states throughout the Midwest, Mountain and Pacific Northwest regions. With the deal, Zip strengthens its furniture assembly and regular old “white glove” delivery offerings in its roster of services. Furniture assembly starts at $130. Shopko customers can… View this story
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The California Energy Commission (CEC) today voted to enact restrictions on the sales of energy-hogging TVs up to 58 inches in screen size. The new restrictions will limit the sales of TVs in the state to only those that meet energy requirements, starting in 2011. A second, stricter phase of requirements is slated to go into effect in 2013, and could include restrictions on sets larger than 58 inches in size. The vote by the CEC culminates a months-long battle fought contentiously by the Consumer… View this story
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BlackFriday.info got its hands on Walmart‘s Black Friday ad, which has some of the best deals we’ve seen. Walmart is offering a Magnavox Blu-ray player for $78, a 32-inch Emerson 720p LCD for $248, and a HP 15.6-inch notebook with Intel Processor and 3GB of memory for $298. BlackFriday.info says Walmart’s ad “includes some of the best deals that you are going to find on Black Friday and we really think you’re going to love it.” Doorbusters marked with *. Click here for the entire… View this story
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Have your TV professionally calibrated, and it will not only look better, it can save you some money in energy costs. Recent THX research demonstrated in all cases that a calibrated viewing mode consumed less energy than “vivid” and “dynamic” modes. The approximate savings for consumers ranged from 15 percent 50 percent, resulting in savings of up to $40 to $50 per year. The annual consumption and cost calculations are based on four hours of use per day and $0.1136 per kilowatt hours (kWH), which… View this story
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The Black Friday deals from Best Buy have leaked, joining the likes of OfficeMax and Sears. The big-box store will open at 5 a.m. on Black Friday (Nov. 27) and will begin passing out tickets for doorbusters at 3 a.m. Some of the highlights, according to BlackFriday.info, include: Samsung 46” 1080p 120Hz LED HDTV for $1,599.99Sony PS3 120GB Console Bundle w/two games (Little Big Planet and Ratchet & Clank Future) for $299.99Sony 15.5” Widescreen Laptop w/Intel Pentium Dual Core Processor, 4GB RAM, 320GB hard drive,… View this story
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Want an LCD HDTV with the latest advances that costs hundreds of dollars less than comparable models? Look to Vizio and its XVT Series LED-backlit VF551XVT. The 55-inch XVT VF551XVT (XVT stands for Extreme Vizio Technology) offers the two primary features found in today’s top-of-the-line HDTVs. There’s a full HD 1080p display utilizing the company’s proprietary 240Hz SPS (Scenes Per Second) Smooth Motion technology, along with TruLED (light-emitting diode) illumination. The full array of LED backlighting is composed of 960 tiny LEDs in clusters with… View this story
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November is a big month for a lot of reasons. The change in temperature. Thanksgiving. Football. And the start of the holiday shopping season. Retail and big-box stores will be doing their best to increase sales after a slow 2008 holiday shopping season. If you’re looking to spice up your home theater or just add to your home, here are six products to consider. Also, don’t forget to check out The Holiday Gift Guide 2009 for more gift ideas. Click here for 6 Products to… View this story
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What are the biggest energy hogs among electronics? Contrary to common “wisdom,” it’s not data centers for the Internet and large, commercial IT operations that are the biggest energy users among electronics today, says Bruce Nordman of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. “By my estimates, data centers are perhaps 20 percent of electronics’ energy use.” In other words, the great majority of our energy use is not in data centers, but in our buildings and homes. Nordman has been collecting figures from various reliable sources… View this story
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Unlike the automotive and lending industries, President Obama and Congress will probably never look to bail out the consumer electronics industry. But the industry has been proactive with its own stimulus plan: new technologies to excite consumer spending. Consumers can look at the evolution of the flat-panel TV market in two ways: the products are more affordable, and they are more eco-friendly. Leading the way are new technologies like light emitting diode (LED) and organic light emitting diode (OLED). These join the market’s traditional technologies… View this story
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Quite some time ago we predicted the death of plasma technology, albeit a tad early than was comfortable for most of our readers. The large reason behind this prediction was the advances being made in LCD technology. With the introduction of LED backlighting, LCDs have overcome one of the final hurdles that sets them apart from their plasma counterparts — black levels. The Toshiba Regza 46SV670U capitalizes on this equalization of technologies and maximizes the viewing experience, bringing LCD into the realm of plasma and… View this story
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