27 posts and columns on LED
iPad Air Has Spendier Display, Costs Less to Make Than Earlier Models
The latest teardown report by research firm IHS shows where Apple is spending more, and less, on its new device.This Just In: 3-D Isn’t a “Crucial” Television Feature
Sales of 3-D TVs are up, the NPD Group says, but whether consumers watch content in 3-D is a whole different story.Flat-Screen TV Prices: Anything but Flat
So much for falling TV prices.Bye-Bye, Thrive Tablets; Hello, Toshiba Excite
Toshiba is rolling out a line of new tablet devices, including a giant 13-inch stay-at-home device.News Byte
More TV Buyers Look to LED Screens
For the first time, more U.S. TV buyers are looking to purchase LED TVs rather than cold cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL) TVs, according to a new report from IHS iSuppli. Consumers who planned to buy an LED-backlit TV jumped to 54 percent in the last quarter of the year, a 32 percent increase from the third quarter; the share of CCFL-backlit LCD TVs dropped to 25 percent from 56 percent. The report comes just a couple days after Samsung, the world’s largest LCD-panel maker, said it would spin off its LCD business to focus more on higher-margin OLED screens.Picking the Brightest, Most Efficient Bulb
Katie offers a brief guide to the latest energy-efficient light bulbs.You Know You’re Going to Watch It: All About the Times Square Ball
It’s said a billion people watch the six-ton ball drop every year. Here’s more than you ever wanted to know about it.One More Thing: Apple’s New MacBook Air
Steve Jobs’s “one more thing” today at Apple’s Town Hall event was the new MacBook Air, or, as he put it, “what would happen if a MacBook hooked up with an iPad.” The quick details: Complete unibody construction, all solid state storage, and there are two models, each with two configurations: an 11.6-inch model with either 64 gb or 128 gb of storage for $999 or $1199, respectively, and a 13.3-inch model with either 128 or 256 gb of storage for $1299 or $1599, respectively.Voices