The chart has been updated with information from Samsung’s March 7th line show but the rest of this article (aside from the Changelog below) has not. See the line show article for the latest information on Samsung’s 2012 TVs. Samsung will ship gobs of different TV models in 2012, and CES provided our first peek …

Massive numbers of new 2012 TVs were announced at CES 2012 earlier this month, and digesting them all is easier with a table than umpteen blog posts. Hewing close to hoary CES tradition of yore, LG was the first major TV maker to hold its CES press conference. The company also gave CNET the most information prior to the show …

You asked for it, now you got it. After a few delays I’ve updated the results from my ongoing long-term testing of five 2011 plasma TVs by adding a sixth and publishing a new round of numbers. One of the models tested has now accumulated nearly 3,000 hours of “on” time, equivalent to about a year and a half of …

We think a matte-screen finish offers the best picture quality in rooms where you can’t control ambient light. Here are our favorite five matte-screen TVs CNET reviewed in 2011, arranged in descending order of overall picture quality. LG LW5600 series While passive 3D has its flaws, the LG LW5600’s 2D picture quality is very good for an edge-lit LED-based LCD …

With all of the brouhaha over tablets, smartphones, and thin PCs, it’s easy to overlook the fact that quite a few noteworthy things happened in the venerable TV category this year. It’s my job to keep track of such things, so, yeah, I’m biased, but when considering a year-end article to write, it really wasn’t difficult to come up with …

In the United States these days the word “Elite” has a negative connotation evoking snooty haves vs. gritty have-nots, Wall Street vs. Main Street, and them vs. us. The Sharp Elite PRO-X5FD won’t do much to dispel those associations. This ridiculously expensive television is basically “The wealthiest 1 percent” distilled into flat-panel TV form, and we’re betting very few of …

If you want to make someone really happy this holiday season, buy him or her a TV. It doesn’t have to be gigantic, and it doesn’t have to be 3D compatible or stream video from the Internet. Of course, if it’s any of those things the smile on the face of your gift-receiver might get even wider. Our complete Holiday …

To judge from the LND630 we checked out earlier and the LND550 reviewed here, Samsung’s low-end LCDs are pretty dang good. These non-LED-based models managed deeper black levels than like-priced competitors, and largely avoid the uniformity problems associated with those razor-thin LED-based sets–while costing hundreds less. The LND550 falls short of the color accuracy of its step-up brother, and we …

Here’s a little secret: an LED TV is just an LCD TV with a fancy backlight. While it usually provides a thinner design and improved energy efficiency, an LED backlight doesn’t necessarily provide better picture quality. In fact, sometimes LED TVs perform worse than their non-LED cousins. But they never cost less. With those facts in mind, here’s a quintet …

(Updated November 17, 2011) In addition to the Kindle Fire tablet, Amazon has a new lineup of three e-ink readers for 2011 to update the Kindle released in 2010. The devices’ lower price points represent an aggressive push by Amazon to boost its lead in the e-book space as competitors like Barnes & Noble’s Nook, currently $99 for the latest …