You have to hand it to Sony. The company danced around LCD for years, giving token gestures to the flat-screen fraternity and refusing to take it seriously. But all it took was a load of bouncing balls (and a decent product, of course) to make the Bravia range one of the most recognisible LCD ranges in existence, and a powerful …

Samsung’s stand at IFA 2006 would have brought tears to the eyes of HDTV’s early adopters. On display were the LE40M91 and LE40F7, which are the replacements for Samsung’s current crop of 40-inch LCD displays. The LE40M91 (pictured right) is an HD Ready set with a 1,366×768-pixel panel. It uses an LED backlight for better contrast and also offers Samsung’s …

All the talk at this month’s IFA trade show was about the arrival of ‘Full High-Definition’ TVs. Typical. We’ve only just got used to the HD Ready industry standard, and now there’s new jargon to get our heads round. ‘Full HD’ refers to screens with a maximum resolution of 1,920×1,080 pixels. Unlike the earlier HD standard, which required a minimum …