Al Griffin

Sony's Flat Screen
Al Griffin  |  Apr 04, 2008

The catch phrase "flat TV" has been circulating for years, mainly to describe the many flat-panel plasma and LCD sets that have swamped the market. But with an average cabinet depth of 3 to 5 inches, can those TVs really be called flat? To find a truly flat display, you need to check out OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diode).

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Olevia 252T FHD 52-inch LCD HDTV
Al Griffin  |  Apr 03, 2008

Step into the TV section of any big-box electronics store, and you're bound to see endless rows of LCD sets lining the shelves. While this surplus of options can make it tough to decide on a specific LCD model, the upside is that the competition for your flat-panel TV dollar has resulted in a number of great deals.

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Vetting Vinyl: The Who
Al Griffin  |  Apr 03, 2008
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Talk about "classic records": The Who's double-

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JVC Lets Loose Another Top-Notch Projector
Al Griffin  |  Mar 31, 2008

the listJVC has long been a player in industrial-grade video front projectors, with its D-ILA (JVC's variant of LCoS technology) models finding their way into plenty of boardrooms, digital movie theaters, and other commercial venues.

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Other Tech
Sony Gets the OLED Out
Al Griffin  |  Feb 06, 2008

At last year's CES, Sony previewed an 11-inch, 3mm-deep OLED TV prototype that made other flat-panel sets at the show look positively obese. That same model showed up in finished form at the company's press conference Sunday, rising up Vegas showbiz-style from beneath the stage in a maneuver reminiscent of the Stonehenge scene from Spinal Tap.

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Custom Installation How-To
LG BH200 Super Blu Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD Player
Al Griffin  |  Feb 02, 2008

One of the biggest news items to emerge from last year's Consumer Electronics Show was LG's announcement of a dual-format deck that could play both Blu-ray Discs and HD DVDs. We subsequently got our hands on that player, the BH100 Super Multi Blue, and we found it an intriguing but frustratingly incomplete solution.

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Sony Bravia VPL-VW60 1080p SXRD Front Projector
Al Griffin  |  Jan 05, 2008
Sony's new 1080p SXRD projector 27242714960 Sony VPL-VW60 When I reviewed Sony's VPL-VW50 "Pearl" front projector in January 2007, I was mightily impressed with how the company had brought the ben
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Samsung LN-T4681F 46-inch LED-backlit LCD HDTV
Al Griffin  |  Jan 01, 2008
Samsung's plasma buster? 00036725246850 Samsung LN-T4683 There's been significant buzz on the LCD HDTV front lately, much of it surrounding models with 120-Hz scanning, a feature designed to combat picture
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Sony Bravia KDL-52XBR5 52-inch LCD HDTV
Al Griffin  |  Dec 02, 2007
Sony's new XBR5 27242717398 Sony 52XBR5 A big surprise of the past year has been seeing how well the latest crop of LCD flat-panel TVs has held up against the plasma competition.
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JVC LT-47X898 47-inch LCD HDTV
Al Griffin  |  Dec 02, 2007
JVC LT-47X898 47-inch LCD HDTV 46838030581 JVC 47X898 JVC is perhaps best known in the TV world for LCoS-based projectors, but the company also has some impressive flat-panel LCDs.
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