2012 HDTV pricing has just taken a major hit. With 2011 closeout inventories nearly depleted and overall TV sales remaining soft, new dealer incentives coupled with aggressive discounting have resulted in significant price drops on select 2012 models, with savings of up to one-third off of retail. The bargains are found on 40-Inch and [...]
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LG, Samsung and Sony HDTV Prices Drop
May 20th, 2012 · No Comments · 3D HDTV, LED LCD Flat Panels, News
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How To Avoid Online HDTV Dealer Scams-HD GURU Investigates
April 27th, 2012 · 4 Comments · 3D HDTV, Connected TVs, LCD Flat Panel, LED LCD Flat Panels, News, Plasma
credit: istock photo Online HDTV shopping can save you time, gas and money, provided you choose the right dealer. Picking the wrong dealer can be a disaster. HD Guru investigated online HDTV complaints to uncover the awful tactics employed by bad online dealers. Before you buy a TV online read our are check list [...]
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IKEA To Enter The US HDTV Market
April 18th, 2012 · 3 Comments · Blu-ray Players, Connected TVs, LED LCD Flat Panels, News
IKEA just announced it is throwing its unassembled hat into the ring with four TV’s with 2.1 sound systems, disc players, all in an integrated cabinet. The cabinet is designed by them, the TVs, on the other hand, will be supplied by Chinese electronics company TCL. More info after the jump.
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Vizio Drops from #1 to #3 US HDTV Brand
April 3rd, 2012 · 9 Comments · 3D HDTV, Connected TVs, LCD Flat Panel, LED LCD Flat Panels, News, Plasma
Though 2011 was a rough year for all HDTV makers, Vizio had a worse year than most. On one hand, there’s Samsung, LG and Sharp, who were rewarded by an increase in US market share of 17.9%, 35.2% and 60.09% respectively (Q4 2010/Q4 2011). Vizio, once number one in US market share (Q4 2010), found [...]
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Snooping HDTV? Samsung Responds To Criticism
March 30th, 2012 · 2 Comments · 3D HDTV, Connected TVs, LED LCD Flat Panels, News, Plasma
HD Guru recently published an article entitled “Is your HDTV watching you?” In it, we discussed the fact that new features in Samsung’s top 2012 LED and plasma models — including built-in microphones, HDTV camera, wireless and wired Internet connection, built-in browser with voice to text conversion, face recognition and more — could be used to collect [...]
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Beware Of Phony LCD HDTV Refresh Rates
March 26th, 2012 · 10 Comments · 3D HDTV, LCD Flat Panel, LED LCD Flat Panels, News, Plasma
Buyers beware: top TV makers are quietly substituting industry standardized refresh rate specifications with their own artificial rate numbers, deceiving prospective buyers into purchasing an HDTV over a possibly better performing (but more honestly labeled) competing model. These numbers, created by the marketing department, do little to explain a TV’s actual hardware capabilities. Don’t get [...]
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Is Your New HDTV Watching You?
March 19th, 2012 · 50 Comments · LED LCD Flat Panels, News, Plasma
Samsung UN65ES8000; group photo ©iStockphoto.com/Jennifer Byron Samsung’s 2012 top-of-the-line plasmas and LED HDTVs offer new features never before available within a television including a built-in, internally wired HD camera, twin microphones, face tracking and speech recognition. While these features give you unprecedented control over an HDTV, the devices themselves, more similar than [...]
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