Giant flat-panel displays are beautiful pieces of technology, but for all that money they should do more than just sit there, shouldn’t they? For some time now, Hitachi has had models that swivel a bit, but in most installations we’ve seen, the display is mounted on the wall. Now that’s understandable — if you’ve got a display that saves on …

LG 50PB2DR  — one of the model’s requiring a software upgrade LG Electronics Australia has announced that owners of LG TVs with integrated digital tuners will require a software upgrade to stop issues with “frozen transmissions”. Reports surfaced over the weekend of pictures seizing up during certain programs while owners tried to watch digital broadcasts on the Nine Network in …

Samsung clearly doesn’t believe less is more: this year it has launched 17 new televisions. Of these, two are whacking great plasmas and the other 15 are LCDs. Crave suspects Samsung doesn’t get out much. There are three ranges: the entry-level S86, the mid-level R87 and fully featured M87. The S86 range offers screen sizes of 26, 32, 37, 40 and …