Today, the war ended. The war between HD formats, that is. As you’re probably aware, …

Toshiba didn’t actually admit HD DVD was dead and buried during its CES press conference, but it was quite clear it knew the game was up. The tech journalists were circling like vultures, waiting to pick the meat of failure from the bones of a seriously ill-looking HD format. The conference started with the head of Toshiba digital AV repeating …

“Contrast ratio is officially irrelevant.” That was the claim today from Pioneer, which unveiled two new concept TVs that have the potential to re-write the rules on flat panel displays. The first, codenamed ‘Extreme contrast model’ produces blacks that are actually black, rather than the slight grey seen on all flat-panel televisions today, with such a high contrast ratio “it …