Recently Samsung have been chastised by the UK Advertising Standards Authority over their advertising for their LED TV's. In particular they were critiqued adversely for their "New generation" phraseology in the adverts where in fact the LED is just an alternative backlighting system.

According to "Tech On" Sharp have demonstrated a solar powered TV that uses one third of the power of a 2007 model 26inch LCD panel and is capable of running off a similiar size solar panel.

The other day I was able to attend one of those unusual industry meetings where a manufacturer had their new TV range presented not by a suit and a power point but rather by a geeky tech young chap in a large space where the competitor products were all lined up with identical source material.

This is a rather nice Sharp LCM3700 pro monitor LCD TV mounted on a rotary pole in one of Melbourne's better apartments. This particular installation is run by a Crestron control system that enables the client to flick imagery and audio seamlessly beetween the various regions of the residence...

How times have changed. And how they have not.

The other day I was taking in the "B" grade 70's classic Death Race 2000 (one of Sylvester Stallone's first flicks). The film is set in the year 2000, and revolves around a car race televised on national TV, in which the competitors engage in acts of violence on the roads. In one scene, a viewer remarks "Next year we'll be able to watch this on a 40 inch screen!" The irony of course is that I was watching the film on a 50 inch plasma. Nevertheless, quite a bold prediction for 1975.