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Best Television Buying Time? Next Year (Part 2)Here are the six coming technologies that should delay all your AV gear and television buying until 2014

Best Television Buying Time? Next Year (Part 1)New pending technologies mean you should postpone all your AV gear and television buying until 2014

Watch Your Home TV Anywhere with HD Slingbox 500Our review of the new champion TV streaming video from home device, the HD Slingbox 500 set-top box

DON'T Buy 4K UHD 84-in. TVNo current 4K 84-in UHD television will be able to play future streamed, broadcast or Blu-ray 4K video content

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Gizmos & Gadgets: Panasonic New Best Plasma HDTVs

By: Stewart Wolpin

April 16, 2013

There is no better HDTV (other than $20K 4K UHDs) than a plasma, and there's no better plasma HDTV than Panasonic's. And Panasonic's new best plasma HDTVs are the ZT60 reference models. Following yesterday's collection of Panasonic's spring gadgets, here's the lowdown on the ZT60's myriad attributes.

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Gizmos & Gadgets For Around Your Head & Your Home

By: Stewart Wolpin

April 1, 2013

Not all gizmos and gadgets used about the head are designed to emit audio, and not all gizmos used around the house are designed simply to be used in the living room. Today's collection includes a hair dryer, a kitchen spice garden, a new-fangled front projection HDTV and a text messaging bracelet.

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New Samsung TVs, Home Theater, Speakers

By: Stewart Wolpin

March 22, 2013

To complete our Samsung Week, here are the company's latest home A/V offerings. The new Samsung TVs include new LED and plasma sets that feature a built-in camera for video chatting and a new version of its Smart Hub user interface, a new home theater system, a connected Blu-ray player and other A/V tech.

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New Samsung TV Costs HOW Much?!

By: Stewart Wolpin

March 21, 2013

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Are Cheap HDTVs Okay and Other Tech Questions

Here's the advice I rendered this past week for friends seeking geek guidance on buying a cheap HDTV, 1080 or 720, dubbing old VHS tapes and AC Wi-Fi routers.

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CES Gizmos & Gadgets: OLED and Plasma HDTVs

By: Stewart Wolpin

February 4, 2013

Not all the new HDTVs displayed at CES were impossibly expensive and impossibly large 4K UHD models, which I covered here and here. Some were just plain impossibly expensive OLED sets coming soon in a variety of gizmo and gadget-like configurations, along with what may be the new state-of-the-art of regular HDTV.

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CES Gizmos & Gadgets: More 4K Ultra High-Def TVs

By: Stewart Wolpin

February 1, 2013

Three weeks ago we kicked off our CES coverage with the next-generation in TV tech – ultra high definition (UHD) models offering four times the resolution of today's 1080p HDTVs. But our initial roundup just scratched the surface; 4K sets dominated the CES conversation and the gizmos and gadgets exhibit space.

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Latest Gizmos & Gadgets at CES: 4K Ultra HD TVs

By: Stewart Wolpin

January 8, 2013

HDTV? HD shmee vee. 1080p HDTVs are suddenly old fashioned here at CES. LG, Samsung, Sony and Toshiba all have announced they'll start selling giant 84-inch LED Ultra HD TVs, with four times the resolution of your HDTV, sometime this spring. UHD TVs look unbelievable – and will be unbelievably expensive.

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Top 10 Cool Technology Trends for 2013

By: Stewart Wolpin

January 1, 2013

Next week is the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the largest cool technology trade show in the world. Both Barb Gonzalez and I will be reporting from the show floor, but here's a preview of the top 10 cutting edge technology I expect to see on the show floor at CES and in stores in 2013.

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Top 10 Boomer Cool Technology 2013 Resolutions

By: Stewart Wolpin

December 31, 2012

Like it or not, we live in a technological age. For whatever reason, you're likely not exploiting all the cool technology available – mostly because it's all too much for you. Here are my 10 technology New Year's resolutions to help boomers enjoy all the best of today's modern technologies in 2013.

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