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Manufacturing and marketing LCD TVs, especially in the U.S., is a tough gig. The margins are thin and the competitors are fierce, which is why may companies are outsourcing everything but their brand name to Asian manufacturers. Royal Philips...

Philips will no longer sell television sets in the North American market. Instead it will license its Philips and Magnavox brand names to Funai, which makes TVs for Wal-Mart among others. The license is for five years. Other Philips consumer product businesses in North America will not be affected.

As a rule, you won't find me wandering the aisles of big box electronics stores. Between my own custom install showroom, all of the trade shows I attend, and getting products to review for S&V, I get my fill of the latest, high-end gear and...

European fans of Pioneer's Kuro line of HDTVs will be eager to study the company's recently released breakdown of its upcoming line. With a full complement of LCDs, front projectors and familiar plasmas for the continent in 2008, Pioneer is doing a...

Perhaps there is no more potent icon of American motherhood than Florence Henderson, who played Carol Brady on The Brady Bunch. She'll be helping the Consumer Electronics Association "encourage baby boomers to help their elderly parents, relatives, and neighbors get ready" for the transition to digital television, says a CEA press release.

How convenient. Researchers at European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) needed a super-fast network to store data gathered from its universe probing experiments conducted with an enormous particle accelerator. In the process of creating this...

Sony was one of the earliest backers of the Blu-ray format, but continues to promote the format mainly through one product: the PlayStation 3. Looks like the company is finally wising up, and searching for ways to put its Blu-ray eggs into more...