Dec 27, 2010

What we’re watching tonight: NBC (1080i) Sunday Night Football with Eagles/Vikings is shifted to Tuesday night. History (720p) has Ax Men at 9 p.m. and Top Gear at 10 p.m. TLC (1080i) has Sarah Palin’s Alaska at 9 p.m. and My Kid Survived at 10 p.m. Fox (720p) has Running Wilde at 9:30 p.m. ESPN (720p) has the 2010 Little Caesars Bowl with Florida...

Dec 27, 2010

LG swore up and down that it would be bumping its smart TV investment to kick-start 2011, and lo and behold, it looks as if this is one New Year’s resolution that’ll be kept. The aforesaid company has just revealed that it’ll be bringing the planet’s largest LED-backlit 3D LCD HDTV to CES 2011 next week, with the LZ9700 handling both 2D...

Dec 26, 2010

What we’re watching tonight: ESPN (720p) has Hawaii/Tulsa in the Hawaii Bowl at 8 p.m. ESPN2 (720p) has college basketball with Saint Louis/Mississippi at 7 p.m. and Colorado State/Southern Mississippi at 9 p.m. Syfy (1080i) has WWE Smackdown at 8 p.m. HDTV Listings for December 24, 2010 originally appeared on Engadget HD on Fri, 24 Dec 2010 17:56:00...

Dec 25, 2010

The O!Play HD2 may be the first media device to support USB 3.0, but we’re guessing that hasn’t exactly inspired too many of you to run out and buy the things — assuming you can actually find one for sale. Maybe a slimmer, shaplier form factor would do the trick. That’s the new O!Play Mini, a much more petite entry into the series that...

Dec 24, 2010

Oh dear. Google TV isn’t having the best of starts to its life in the internet-connected TV world and Logitech seems to have taken notice. DigiTimes‘ nameless sources today report that Gigabyte, the company charged with building Revue units for Logi, has been instructed to stop production of them for the period covering December 2010 through January...

Dec 23, 2010

Rovi Corporation has already gone though a few significant transformations — it was once the DRM-centered company known as Macrovision — and it’s now set to undergo another big one. The company has just announced a “definitive agreement” to acquire Sonic Solutions in a deal valued at $720 million. Among other things, Sonic owns...