AT&T sues screen makers, alleging price fixing

AT&T Inc. has sued the major makers of LCD screens used in cell phones, saying they colluded to raise the prices the carrier paid for 300 million phones.

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Have your HDTV and be green, too

The federal government's Energy Star logo is starting to take on more meaning as Americans pay attention to green products, including HDTVs, many of which use less power than older CRT sets.

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Is plasma starting to fade out?

Plasma televisions, while still the finest made in the eyes of purists, are rapidly losing ground to LCD-based models because of lower prices and better quality.

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3-D HDTV is starting to get more in focus

As 3-D versions of movies continue to attract an audience, it’s inevitable that film studios and consumer electronics companies want to duplicate the success with 3-D HDTVs.

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OLED phone screens are bright addition

OLEDs provide a sharper, brighter display than the color LCDs in common use today on cell phones. But  OLED displays may not be common in handsets any time soon.

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Light-emitting diodes brighten new HDTVs

LED LCD TVs have joined the parade of garden-variety LCD and plasma TVs on the shelves of retailers. But before you say “Not another acronym!” consider the energy savings and enhanced picture of this new breed of  TV.

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EU antitrust regulators charge LCD panel makers

European Union antitrust regulators have charged Royal Philips Electronics NV and LG Display with fixing the price of liquid crystal display monitors, Philips said Monday.

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Dashboards meet the 21st century

Over the decades of the “Star Trek” TV and movie franchise, the ship’s computer displays evolved from steam-age dials and switches to large 21st-century video displays that could be configured to perform seemingly any task.

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Hitachi to admit to fixing LCD prices

Hitachi Displays Ltd. has agreed to plead guilty to conspiring to fix prices on the sale of LCD panels.

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Digital TV, real or converted, is holiday priority

Want a digital TV this holiday season? You can get one pretty cheaply, without changing your set.

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3 LCD firms plead guilty in price-fixing scheme

Three Asian electronics firms have agreed to plead guilty and pay $585 million in fines for conspiring to drive up the prices of LCD screens used in computers, TVs, cell phones and other electronic devices.

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Analysis finds TV buyers steered to costlier LCDs

LCD or plasma? If you've been shopping for a flat-panel TV, that's the big question. According to a mystery-shopper survey, electronics salespeople don't know much about the differences, but still have a ready answer: LCD.

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EU and U.S. Probe Possible LCD Cartel

European and U.S. regulators said Tuesday they have been investigating a possible cartel involving makers of liquid crystal display monitors.

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With a slowly recovering economy, retailers are looking for ways to lure wary customers into their stores on Black Friday. Some retailers are attracting shoppers by staying open on Thanksgiving Day, in addition to extending their hours on Black Friday.

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They've targeted gas-guzzling clunkers. They've blacklisted power-wasting light bulbs. Now the efficiency police are going after our big-screen TVs as a way to tame our household energy demons.

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Olson, who's been tracking annual Black Friday deals from Wal-Mart, Target, Sears and other chain stores for the past six years, said Target's deals look "pretty aggressive" this year.

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The consolidation process in the Japanese home electronics business goes on and on. Today former rivals Sharp and Sony said [JP] they reached a final agreement to launch an LCD panel joint venture in Osaka, after having failed to ink the deal last month.

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This articles explains how CRT (cathode-ray tube) TVs features are used by older games and how modern LCD TVs have trouble with the older game images.

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LCD displays in automobiles that can show any image or information the car's computer can conjure are beginning to appear in some new models

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The California Energy Commission is proceeding with a proposal this summer to ban the sale of TV sets that do not meet new efficiency standards when they are turned on and displaying a picture — a measure of power consumption that is not currently regulated at all.

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Heres PC worlds review on HDTV's check them out and study before you buy since there is still more time.

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Two months ago, I purchased an HDTV and found this article helpful. I seeded the link directly to the "How to" section.

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On average, plasma screens use the most energy—nearly three times as much per square inch as rear-projection TVs and roughly 20 percent more than LCDs. This rule of thumb isn't foolproof, though, because screen size and resolution are also major factors.

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Black Friday is mere moments away, so before you hit the streets at unbelievable hours, prepare yourself with everything you need to know before you get shopping—after all, knowledge is power.

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Prices for the flat screens in televisions, personal computers and cellphones have plummeted in recent years — but the decline would have been even faster if it hadn't been for an international price-fixing cartel, the Justice Department said on Wednesday.

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From the page: The U.S.

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in a time we are bailing companies out, more needs to be done to get back to honest business practices. and fair expectations from wall street. greed should not be rewarded or punished with a slap on the hand.

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It sounds a lot like a wacky dream, but don't be surprised if within our lifetime you find yourself discarding your plasma and LCD sets in exchange for a holographic 3D television that can put Cristiano Ronaldo in your living room or bring you face-to-face with life-sized version …

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Stuff you need, sh*! you don't - episode one

Thought I would put my geek/researcher side to use and put together a (semi) weekly column on the latest products being marketed to us.

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Microsoft announced that a pair of its engineers have invented a new type of display technology that is much more efficient with energy than current LCDs.

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"New studies indicate that nitrogen trifluoride a compound used in flat panel displays may have devastating warming effects

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A greenhouse gas (GHG) called nitrogen trifluoride (NF3), widely used in the manufacture of flat screen plasma and LCD TVs, is estimated to be 17,000 times as powerful as carbon dioxide as a GHG but is not Kyoto-listed.

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Games consoles such as the Sony Playstation 3 can burn up to five times more energy than a medium sized refrigerator, a Choice study has found.

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At the much-anticipated press-event that took place at OLPC HQ in Boston earlier today, the organization unveiled its plans for second generation of XO hardware.

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Four decades after the Grateful Dead and Timothy Leary made acid trips a counter-cultural rite of passage, Rick Doblin is trying to shake the drug's hippie image and reclaim its use as a medicine.

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According to HD Guru, Sony's not content with its less-than-number-one status in flat panels, so it's planning to claw its way back into consumers' hearts with deep price cuts on all of its 2008 models next month.

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Hewlett-Packard and Dreamworks announced a new display technology that promises consistent color accuracy between content production and viewing environments.

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Sony and Sharp have forged an alliance to help them meet the growing demand for liquid crystal display televisions. Sony is to take a one-third stake in Sharp's $3.5bn (£1.8bn) LCD panel factory, which is due to be completed in March 2010.

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