Manufacturers News

Samsung has announced that it will be releasing the world’s first Plasma HDTV with 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio — no, we’re not joking, a 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio, which, if you’re counting, is enough contrast ratio to hollow our your eye sockets.

Excited?

The TV is also 3D-ready, that’s right — not HD-ready, but 3D-ready, meaning you can watch 3D movies or play 3D games with the dinky, silly, headache causing 3D glasses we all simultaneously love and hate — isn’t technology grand?

For those of you not so much grieving the loss of the HD DVD format as you are grieving the loss of your suddenly defunct HD DVD collection, there’s some good news for you. At least, if you bought your movie from HDScape.

For a limited time only, the movie studio is allowing buyers to exchange their HD DVD titles for the same title in the Blu-ray format for $11.95 plus $.99 for shipping and handling — which also happens to be $13 more than you ever wanted to spend on a dead format.

Ever wanted to watch the Chocolate Rain guy in HD without getting up from your computer chair? Well, Asus does too, which is why they released their new Asus HDTV Suite-HDMI today.

The standalone TV box allows users to turn their PC monitors into full HD TV sets as well as act as multimedia centers without even having to turn on the actual PC — turning what you always sort of considered your window for pornography into so much more.

Matsushita — famed for its Panasonic brand — has announced that it will be building an LCD factory in western Japan by 2010. The move is most likely a response to recent decline in Plasma TV sales as compared to LCD TVs — something you probably wished you knew about when you bought your shiny new Plasma TV.

The factory will cost a reported $2.8 billion dollars and should be able to make 15 million 32-inch LCD panels per year — this finally begins Matsushita’s plans of taking over the world by blanketing it in high-definition TVs.

Some of you surf through the hundreds, no, thousands of HDTVs out there on the market and think, what, oh what should I get? It’s often not a very easy decision — luckily, Amazon.com is a great way to narrow your options down. As of today, February 13th, Amazon’s best-selling LCD HDTV is Sony’s Bravia KDL-40V3000.

The TV is so good, in fact, that it’s not only the bestselling LCD HDTV today, but also the best-selling HDTV on the entire site — is your interest piqued?