Editors’ note: This story was updated September 27, 2012, to include a response from Logitech. …

I’ve had some hands-on time with Simple.TV’s hardware, but it won’t be shipping until mid-October. Sarah Tew/CNET Simple.TV started as a darling of CES 2012, but recently it’s been faced with the more pedestrian realities of launching a new product, such as raising money via Kickstarter and meeting its release dates. Simple.TV announced late yesterday that it would not be …

If you’re looking for a cheap TV 42 inches or larger, there are a lot of advantages to buying a plasma instead of an LCD. The biggest is picture quality: an LCD is typically not able to reproduce the black levels and contrast of an equivalently priced plasma, and plasma always trounces LCD for viewing angle and uniformity. Entry-level 720p …