Readers often ask how to obtain the best price on a new HDTV. The HD Guru™ shares his retail secrets here based on his vast national and regional consumer electronics management experience. Among the differing types of stores that sell consumer electronics are 1) those that have posted fixed shelf prices, don’t offer price matching [...]
Entries from May 29th, 2008
Getting The Best HDTV Price
May 29th, 2008 · 83 Comments · LCD Flat Panel, Microdisplay Rear Projection, Plasma
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Sony XEL-1: Finally A Critical Review
May 19th, 2008 · 15 Comments · OLED
New display technologies don’t often come along. In the late 1980s Sharp introduced the first LCD flat panel TV. It was standard def, 4:3 and had a screen of just 14”. To boot, the image did not look nearly as good as the direct view tube type TVs it was a going to eventually replace. [...]
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Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Confirms HDMI Cable Scam!
May 12th, 2008 · 19 Comments · Uncategorized
The HD Guru™ has been warning readers since November 2006 about false claims made regarding the superior HDTV performance of expensive name brand HDMI cables when compared to a cheap ones. Canada’s public television network, the Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC) has extensively tested a brand name, very expensive HDMI cable against less costly ones and [...]
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The Ten Worst HDTV Scams, Lies and Video Ripoffs Explained
May 4th, 2008 · 32 Comments · Blu-ray Players, LCD Flat Panel, Microdisplay Rear Projection, Plasma
Last week the HD Guru™ posted his top 10 HDTV Scams, Lies and Video Ripoffs. As promised, here is a more in-depth look at the issues. 1-HDMI The worst connector design since S-Video and the most unreliable interface ever foisted on the buying public. It began with Hollywood’s solution to a non-existent problem, to create [...]
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Hitachi Announces Details of its 2008 1.5” LCD Flat Panels and More
May 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment · LCD Flat Panel, Plasma
Kenji Nakamura, President and CEO of Hitachi Home Electronics (America), shows its UltraThin 1.5 display to Andy Oroz of Home Entertainment Source at the Hitachi Annual Dealer Show. At its dealer it show in California, Hitachi announced details of its 2008 HDTV product line. Hitachi has broken the “thin barrier” with a 1.5” deep LCD [...]
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