If you want the most features for your TV buck, look no further than Vizio’s E3D0VX series. It’s the least expensive 1080p 3D TV on the market–yeah, entry-level 720p 3D plasmas from Samsung and LG cost less but don’t include active glasses, while Sony’s PlayStation TV is just 24 inches. The Vizio also sports a …

At CNET, we’re sticklers for picture quality. But we also respect the desire to spend less than a grand on a TV. Put those two principles together and you get the five TVs below, arranged in order of which ones we like best. None scored lower than a 7 in performance. Screen size also plays a factor in the rankings, …

Editors’ note: The chart doesn’t list every streaming-media service available on each manufacturer’s TVs; for the sake of simplicity, we chose those we considered most important. Today, many TVs are able to connect directly to the Internet. A few of them include QWERTY keyboard remotes and actual Web browsers, but most lack these PC-like extras. Instead they’re designed around a …

By this time next year, companies like Sony might not even sell TVs like the KDL-BX420 series. The CCFL (cold-cathode fluorescent) backlight that illuminates this TV’s LCD panel is slowly going extinct, replaced especially in larger screen sizes by LEDs packed into razor-thin cabinets that can generate more light from less power. They can also generate higher profits. The BX420 …

One of the most common requests we hear at CNET is for a TV that has good picture quality “without all that extra crap” (or words to that effect). Said extras included on many TVs these days include Internet connectivity and 3D, as well as an LED backlight for LCD models. Samsung’s LND630 series comes pretty close to that no-frills …

Now that we’ve reviewed all of the flagship LED TVs this year, it’s time to round up the winners to date. With one very notable exception, these TVs aren’t as good in our book as the very best plasmas, but each delivers excellent or very good performance overall. So without further ado, here they are in descending order of picture …

You won’t need 3D glasses to read this guide, but you will if you want to take advantage of today’s 3D televisions. CNET To help you, prospective TV shopper, get a handle on 3D terminology and determine whether it’s something you should care about, we’ve put together this handy guide. We think it’s a worthwhile read for any TV shopper, …

Six HDTVs participated in the 2011 Value Electronics shootout. Robert Zohn The winner of the 2011 HDTV shootout put on by Value Electronics last weekend was the Sharp Elite, an LED-based LCD TV with a full-array local dimming backlight that sells for around $5500. According to the event scorecard (PDF, shown below), the Elite handily won two of the four …

After reviewing many of the best TVs of 2011, I’ve decided to give this year’s Editors’ Choice to the Samsung PND7000 plasma and the Sony KDL-NX720 LED-based LCD TV. Here’s why. Samsung PND7000 series: For the last couple of years our Editors’ Choice TVs have been Panasonic plasmas, which have managed to eke out a win against TVs from archrival …

The LG 55LW9800 is the company’s highest-end TV for 2011. Sarah Tew/CNET As we describe in detail in our explanation of the confusing world of LED backlight configurations, our favorite variety is known as (deep breath) “full-array with local dimming.” It’s also exceedingly expensive to implement, at least to judge from the sticker prices of the only currently shipping 2011 …