Portable mini projectors have always been something of a pipedream; those that materialize inevitably have poor brightness and often crap image quality; so the Fraunhofer Institute has developed a tiny little device that is set to change all of this through the use of OLED technology, allowing an ultra compact projector, small enough to fit in a mobile phone, to give some serious power. Of course nothing compared to a real big projector, but it's sounding pretty impressive.

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3D TV has always been one of those things which has been set to catch on "this year" or "next year", but it seems that LG are really about to start the push toward it becoming mainstream with the 47 inch LH50. Of course, it still requires funny little glasses...but LG seem to reckon they will sell 12million 3D sets by 2012...quite a lot if you ask me... I reckon they'd be luck to manage that!

Via Engadget.

Okay, so it's not quite the thinnest TV ever; that goes to some fancy pants OLED stuff that nobody will be able to afford for about 20 years, but it IS the thinnest LCD TV yet, measuirng just 5.9mm at their thinnest. Woah. That's tiny! I'm sure it'll look good on your wall...but is the extra cash for something just a little bit thinner really worth it?

I'd rather have a fatter but better value TV myself, perhaps with better picture quality too... oh well LG, we await pricing.

As we have moved through the years of HDTVs, the main cable spec, HDMI, has slowly been improved, adding different features, such as an extended colourset. Now we've reached spec4 and we've got the biggest change yet; internet connectivity. The cable now contains a dedicated ethernet channel allowing items to communicate with each other, and share an internet connection. Clever!

We've also got support for future 3D standards, and some devisions in cable quality, which don't seem to have any detailed differences as yet. More as it comes.

TVs featuring ethernet ports are becoming more and more common, allowing viewers to connect to the net and view pieces of information straight onto their screens, but is it really a worthwhile technology?

The new bravia shown above features it in order to grab RSS feeds and the like...but who really needs that? there are barely any situations where I can think that I would like this feature. Admittedly I don't exactly use RSS that much anyway, but why would I need this on a TV? I'd just use my computer!

Will this be another fad, or will it really go mainstream? Who knows

China have decided that they arn't such a fan of Blu ray, like the rest of the world, and have as such developed CBHD. All we know is they once more use the Blue laser in order to read data, and as such are high density disks capable of full movies at 1080p. Supposedly they are 40% cheaper, but will companies come to support it? Supposedly WB are in..but nothing has appeared as yet.

More as we get it.

Mitsubishi obviously don't understand that the world is in a state of economic crisis; as they have just released a rather mad 82" LCD, costing almost $5000. It's not just big, it has some rather big features too; full 3D support, for whenever (if ever) 3D actually becomes something mainstream. It also features phenominal 120hz technology for completely judder free technology, as well as some serious colour gamut support.

It would look like a good buy, if only there were any certainty in 3D content coming soon, or even ever...

Well, not exaclty, but FED (Field Emission Display), a technology which combines the best bits of CRTs (contrast ratio, image quality) with the thinness of LCDs and plasmas has just took a big blow as Sony has bowed out of research, citing lack of funding as their reasoning.

It's a real shame; if Plasma dies out, and nobody makes FED, where will those who CARE about quality go? OLED? Perhaps....

Recently people have been making a big fuss of trying to get premium television online legally...and Time Warner are listening! The CEO of the company has been talking about their plans to hopefully allow customers to be able to download content completely free of charge to their computers and even mobile devices.

DirecTV also is saying the same thing! Hopefully this will be available soon, going by their comments.

If plasma is dying, it's certainly being dragged down kicking and screaming. Despite Pioneer, the pioneers (sic) of the technology bowing out of the TV business, Panasonic are still continuing with the technology, and certainly in a good way!

The leaked shot you see above is of the Z1, an 56" plasma with physical dimensions only previously seen in LCDs. We really would like to see this sell well, but at $6k I have a feeling it may well not!

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