HDTV Reviews

It’s that time of year again!, Black Friday is here (28th November 2008)  The day where prices are cut and great deals are to be had.  The shops will be packed, but remember you casn get many of these deals online, from the comfort of your own home.

This year there seem to be more great HDTV deals than ever before, on a whole range of sizes and manufacturers. Read more

As many of you would guess, I own a HDTV. What you might not know, is that I watch most of my HD media on my HDTV via my Dell XPS 1530 laptop with an external USB blu-ray drive. The media center combination, along with blu-ray playback at 1080p / 24p via HDMI output is hard to beat for me. Read more

Western Digital have released a very interesting product, away from their usual HHD products. The Western Digital WD TV HD Media Player is a small unit that will stream content from a USB drive, turning your USB drive in to an HD media player. Read more

Dell have just announced their brand new Dell XPS One 24 all in one, computer / display.  They have updated the design to make it a lot sleeker, and added a bunch of improvements.  The Dell XPS One 24, as you might have guessed from the name, has a large 24-inch widescreen display, with a 1900×1200 pixel resolution.  This resolution screen, along with an Optional Blu-ray Disc drive is the reason it’s being posted on this site. Read more

Netflix streaming is currently available on a few devices such as the Roku, LG BD300 blu-ray player, and more recently on Samsung’s P2500 / P2550 Blu-ray players. But none of these currently offer HD netflix streaming, not even the official netflix “watch instantly” portal. Read more

Every so often I like to post up the odd LCD computer monitor that catches my attention for also being great for used with HD content. Asus have announced four new LCDs perfect for using both as an every day computer monitor for office tasks, and also perfect for playing back HD movies such as blu-ray, and also gaming. Read more

LCD HDTV have always come second to plasma HDTVs when it comes to black levels and contrast ratios, especially against the all mighty Pioneer Kuro’s.

A fairly recent addition to LCD HDTVs is LED backlighting, which used individual LEDs rather than a standard, solid CCFL light.  These LEDs are arranged into groups, and each group can be individually dimmed or brightened, depending on what is currently being displayed on the LCD. Read more

As electricity bills continue to rise, and the world becomes more Eco-friendly aware, Sharp provides us with a solution. Large screen HDTVs are known for using a lot of electricity, especially plasmas. Most manufactures are doing their bit by cutting down on the amount of electricity the sets consume when in use, and also when in standby. Read more

Every so often we notice a very impressive computer monitor that has a full HD resolution / 1080p making it worthy to be posted on this HDTV website. The new 23-inch Dell S2309W features a 1080p LCD display offering 1920 x 1080 pixel resolution, making it the perfect resolution for HD content such as blu-ray movies. Read more

Toshiba has tuned its attention away from the now defunct HD-DVD to good old DVD. Toshiba has brought life back to DVDs by announcing the Toshiba XD-E500 XDE DVD Player. The XD-E500 is no ordinary DVD player, or even upscaling DVD player, the Toshiba XD-E500 is the first XDE or “Extended Detail Enhancement” DVD player. Read more