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Plasma TVs update.(Best gifts)(Buyers Guide)
CR Quick Recommendations
The Ratings list models by performance. Quick Picks highlights models that you might want to consider based not only on how they scored but also on factors such as price and features. The Guide to the Ratings is on page 24.
QUICK PICKS
For top quality in a big-screen set:
1 Panasonic $4,000
Panasonic was the performance leader across the board for plasma TVs, and this 50-inch set illustrates why. It displayed excellent picture quality with all types of programming and costs not much more than some 42-inch sets, making it a real value. It's a digital-cable-ready (DCR) TV, so it can receive digital-cable signals, including HD, without a cable box when equipped with a CableCard.
The best 42-inch HD sets:
- High-definition sets the picture in the relentless race for change.(cable...
- Magazine article from: Marketing Week December 15, 2005 700+ words
The BBC and Sky are investing heavily in high-definition television, but this is just one of the new convergent technologies that have become increasingly important over the past 12 months This year will go down in the media world as the year when the pace of change moved up not just one gear, but
- Sharp images changing shape of TV // Look for `high definition' sets within 2...
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Jim Ritter January 17, 1988 700+ words
A new type of television set expected in stores within two years will offer a picture so stunning that your own color set will be rendered obsolete. The "high definition" technology will produce pictures as sharp as a big-screen movie, an improvement at least as dramatic as the introduction of
- HD and Home Networking Flirt Openly at CES.(Las Vegas-last weeek's highlight...
- Newspaper article from: CT's Pipeline January 13, 2004 700+ words
Just when you thought you'd got a good grip on providing HDTV, along come products like HD DVRs with built-in modems and consumer device inputs/outputs. Your subs may want to hook up a boggling array of devices to their gorgeous new HD sets, and so the complexities of home networking are closer
- Digital's rising tide.
- Newspaper article from: Daily Camera (Boulder, CO) October 1, 2007 700+ words
...In 2006, 17.3 million high-definition sets were sold, nearly double the 9 million...Association expects 20 million high-definition sets to be sold this year, and 23.2...televisions, she says, but high-definition sets outpace the other options by about...
- HDTV no longer just for the wealthy or discriminating viewer.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News July 14, 2004 700+ words
...five figures, prices for some high definition sets have fallen below $1,000. One...digital-ready features that high definition sets offer without having to take out a...companies that are retailing high definition sets -- are enthusiastically embracing...
- Charter Communications to Launch High-Definition TV in Ontario, Calif., Area.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News December 2, 2002 700+ words
...Mills Drive has sold 3,000 high definition sets during the past year despite an average...definition service will help him sell high definition sets, and the store will use it in its...efforts, Adams said. Ultimately, high definition sets must come down in price before the...
- Raleigh, N.C.-Area Consumers Ramp Up for All-Digital, HDTV Era.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News November 26, 2003 700+ words
...steady erosion of prices for high-definition sets, growing consumer awareness and the...But not all digital sets are high-definition sets. High-definition television, or...quality between analog and high-definition sets isn't as remarkable as the shift...
- The ABCs of HDTV.(The Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.))
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Devlin, Frank June 2, 2004 700+ words
...play regular TV programs on high-definition sets. And the emergence of HDTV is happening...among the least-expensive high-definition sets _ at about $800 to $2,500 _ but...s not widescreen like most high-definition sets. It costs $2,500. The largest...
