There have been 70 people a month willing to pay the cost of a new car for LG’s Ultra HDTV offering. (Credit: LG) While the 84LM9600 has only be on sale in Australia since mid-November 2012, it’s been 5 months since it launched in Korea. In that time, the 25 million won (or AU$22,500) TV …
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Vodafone will retire googly-eyed brand Crazy John’s from 20 February, closing some stores and rebranding others. (Credit: Crazy John’s/VHA) Last year, the news broke that Vodafone was closing some of the Crazy John’s stores around the country. Now, Ausdroid is reporting that Vodafone will close the brand in its entirety from 20 February. The plan seems to be to move …
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Samsung’s Ultra HDTV set, with its iconic style revealed at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), will be priced in Korea at the equivalent of AU$36,000. Samsung’s TV on stage at CES 2013. (Credit: Nic Healey/CNET Australia) They say “give an inch, take a mile”. In Samsung’s case, it’s “give an inch, add US$12,000”. The Ultra HD S9 with “gallery design”, …
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Samsung has revealed a striking design for its 85-inch Ultra HDTV, and shown a new look and functionality for its Smart TV Hub. Samsung’s gallery design Ultra HDTV inexplicably showing the Harbour Bridge to a Las Vegas audience. (Credit: Nic Healey/CNET Australia) As expected, Samsung has thrown its hat into the Ultra HD ring, with an 85-inch panel sporting an …
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Just as we predicted, Ultra HD is putting in a strong showing at CES 2013, with two manufacturers busting out some massive screens. And again, with a Samsung employee for a little size perspective.(Credit: Nic Healey/CNET Australia) Samsung and TCL were both showing off their 110-inch TVs at day one of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Samsung’s TV has the …
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As we predicted late last year, OLED and Ultra HD have been a strong opening focus at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2013, with LG using its press conference (the first of the show) to reaffirm its commitment to the TV technologies. LG North America’s president and CEO Wayne Park on-stage at CES 2013. (Credit: Nic Healey/CNET Australia) OLED had …
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TCL is working with partners including Quickflix to provide Australian content for its launch of MoVo with Google TV. TCL’s Movo box with Google TV being demonstrated at CES 2013. (Credit: Nic Healey/CNET Australia) TCL has recently increased its push into the Australian market, and the company hopes to create new partnerships with video content owners as it prepares to …
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The promised Smart Evolution Kit for select Samsung 2012 TVs has finally been shown off in the US. The Smart Evolution Kit will completely update the Smart TV experience of select 2012 Samsung TVs to 2013’s interface and processing power. (Credit: Samsung) Back in April 2012, Samsung announced that a select number of its 2012 Smart TV range would be …
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Unhappy Foxtel subscribers have headed to Facebook to vent their rage over the changes to the movie channels. (Credit: Foxtel) As we’ve reported before, as of 1 January, Foxtel subscribers will have seen a few changes to their movie packages and channel options. There is now just one movie package, with 11 channels divided into film genres, two of which …
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The Aussie-shot video suggests that Samsung is trying a very unusual TV design for 2013. Samsung’s teaser image for the new TV design. (Credit: Samsung) With the bell on the pre-Consumer Electronic Show (CES) publicity round being rung, Samsung has come out swinging with a teaser video and blog post hinting at a very unusual take on TV design. The …
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