The Federal Government has denied it could spend up to $4.5 billion on the roll-out of digital television, after announcing the cost of the Mildura switch-off trial this week. The Federal Government has confirmed a $13.6 million dollar package for the Mildura region which will include set-top boxes for up to 3000 pension-receiving households and …

We’ve been waiting years for Sony to release the XEL-1, ever since it showed off its OLED hotness at CES 2007. This particular 11-inch OLED TV has been tempting us with its dinky awesomeness since it was launched in the US in January 2008. OLED TVs promise to be a credible replacement for LCD and plasma in a few years’ …

We saw a handful of exciting new concepts today in the ‘future room’ at the annual JVC gadget get-together in Prague. We know it’s the future because there’s 3D TVs sitting in the corner. We’re a sucker for a super-slim television, and JVC’s super-thin LCD technology impressed us with its svelte profile: it’s just 7mm thick — that’s about a …

We’ll admit it, we’ve got a soft spot for DivX. The much-used video codec started as a hack of Microsoft’s proprietary MPEG-4 codec, and was born out of frustration with Microsoft’s video-playback lameness. DivX quickly became an important ingredient of Internet video, but in an HD era, something with a little more power is needed. Oh look, here’s DivX 7. …

Yesterday the US swore in its 44th president to record crowds in Washington DC and rapturous excitement across the globe. Being stuck in the CBS office, we weren’t able to watch TV at our desks, so instead we turned to some of the many streaming services that were offering footage online. It was a huge occasion for Web streaming, but …

There’s a been a surge in interest recently about an ‘imminent ban’ on energy-inefficient TVs. Rumours reported by several national newspapers indicate that plasma TVs could be banned under new EU rules on energy efficiency. Of course, with Russell Brand already sacked, the papers need something else to cover their pages and whip up some public outrage. The British press …

(Credit: Pioneer) Pioneer has announced two new plasmas on the same day it’s revealed that its general manager will be leaving and overall pricing will be increasing. Pioneer will be bringing in two new models this January in the form of the full-HD PDP-LX509A and PDP-C509A . The PDP-LX509A is the 50-inch counterpart to the already-released PDP-LX609A Kuro, while the …

Has Samsung finally lost the plot? We’ve heard about speakers made from paper, Kevlar and even silk, but those materials weren’t good enough for the Korean mega-corp. So it’s gone and dragged some seaweed out of the ocean and made speaker cones with it. The company claims kelp is a perfect material for speakers, because it has a very fast …

LG has unveiled its latest range of televisions in Las Vegas today with a strong emphasis on LCD, with technologies such as OLED and even plasma seemingly relegated to the sidelines. The company launched nine new LCD products today, but only three new plasmas, plus a single 15-inch OLED prototype. Havis Kwon, LG’s executive vice president for LCD TV, told …

NEC has confirmed it is pulling out of the local retail market in a “strategic restructure” making it the fourth TV manufacturer to pull out of Australia in the past year. “As a result of the restructure, NEC Australia will cease its retail offerings as of 1st March 2009 including white goods, consumer appliances, home entertainment as well as consumer …

This year CES was awash with two things: Yahoo widgets, which were more common than pox on a Victorian-era prostitute, and 3D. As we wandered from booth to booth, looking at TVs displaying double images and people gawking at them through daft-looking glasses, we wondered: who asked for this? 3D is great in real life, because it stops us from …

LG is set to release two additional plasma models this year, including a model which offers an innovative new recording feature called Time Machine Link. CNET Australia visited LG’s design headquarters in Seoul where we were shown all of the new televisions in LG’s range, and these included a first look at a new plasma which wasn’t shown at CES …

The back of a television can be a minefield, and they are almost always a total mess. This year at CES though, a company called Flexicord thinks it might be able to despaghettify your living room. Using some clever patent-pending technology, its HDMI cables can be coiled, twisted or bent to fit your home cinema. Unlike most cables, which will …

While there will undoubtedly be obnoxiously large televisions at this year’s CES, it appears that the war has changed: it’s no longer about size, ladies it’s all about girth … or at least a lack of it. LG is due to unveil its newest slim television, the LG LH95 at the Las Vegas trade fair which will debut at a …

Everyone has times when they feel restless and unable to settle on decisions, but those good folks over at Panasonic have got it bad. It seems like only yesterday that the BD30 and BD50 players arrived and now the company has replaced them with new and exciting models. The DMP-BD35 and BD55 seem to have been on a radical diet, …