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News Flash: LG to Release Netflix Ready Plasma this Spring

Netflix has changed the way we watch movies, there's no question about it. They started through the mail and have recently launched streaming movies for those who don't want to wait for snail mail. W...

DIY TV Riser: Use Door Stops to Lift your Boob Tube

We don't know about you, but we've often made sacrifices in our TV viewing because we just had to use a certain vintage credenza to hold our CRT. With our TV just a tad too low, we find ourselves slo...

In Case You Missed It: Flat Screen Decorated for the Holidays

AT San Francisco has a great post about Sacramento-based designers Tim and Linda Arbogast. When decorating their home for the holidays they decided to recycle and repurpose vintage wares and nature's...

Samsung: "Touched By Color" Gets a Different Meaning

Not only has Samsung repeatedly topped the charts with its sales these past few years, we've recently found out that they've also made great strides in producing greener and more efficient sets. Case ...

Snapshots from Gizmodo's Gadget Exhibition

Friday night Gizmodo hosted an opening party for their gadget gallery in New York City. We took a look, camera in hand, at what the world of consumer electronics had once offered and will soon offer....

Holocubes and Nomad Lights: The Future is around the Corner

What will happen to screens in the future? Will millimeter-thick OLED screens just pop out of everywhere or will we use projection technology to simulate 3D environments? Most probably, we are heading...

Look! Track Mounted TV Makes for an Always Ideal Viewing Angle

We were originally drawn to this house because of the lifesize Silver Surfer statue hanging from the wall, but the more we read about the living room's set-up the more our eyes bugged out of our head...

What a Difference a Flat Screen Makes

Kelly, who lives in Gurnee, Illinois, has quite the living room. Not only does she have an xBox and a Wii, but she's got an old school, coin-operated, Donkey Kong arcade system! What we love about Ke...

iPod Friendly Elliptical Machine Helps Keep Us Working

We've discovered a new incentive to going to the gym. For a while it was cable. Since we refuse to pay for TV that still have commercials, we'd force ourselves to get our booties on the treadmill in ...

Did You Know? Happy People Watch Less TV

That's right, unhappy people watch a lot of TV. At least that's what a study coming out of the University of Maryland is saying. “We looked at 8 to 10 activities that happy people engage in, and f...

Hot or Not? Stovetop Range With LCD TV

Why oh why would you need an LCD in your rangehood? We've always thought it was weird to have appliances with embedded TVs or iPod docks, but this takes the cake. Who wants to watch a TV that's almos...

Blogging...Domino Takes a Tour of Thom Filicia's Lakeside Home

There seems to be two schools of thought when it comes to TVs. Keep it bare or encircle it with décor. In the past we've seen quite a few people who frame their televisions with pieces of artwork. T...

Hot or Not? Chocolate LCD Flat Screen

We've always griped about the monotone nature of electronics. How many silver and black items can you have in your house? We've come up with solutions for some of these items and rounded up televisio...

Samsung: Going Past 1080p and Beyond

Still boasting about how sweet your 1080p television is compared to your friend's measly 720p set? Well, here's your weekly dosage of ego readjustment therapy; Samsung just announced the first 63-inch...

Upcoming Technology: Double Pane LCD Screens

Soon, you'll be able to see on both sides of an LCD panel. What's the use? Well, there are a bunch of uses, like computer screens, cell phones and display screens. These types of screens permit the ov...

Look! Floor to Ceiling Audiophile Wet Dream

We saw this on Flickr and didn't even know what the majority of the stereo equipment was in the photo. Naturally we had to know so we emailed Thomas and found out what he's got going on in his living...

An Open Floor Media Room

Like with snowflakes, no one entertainment area looks alike. No matter how many we see, everyone seems to put their own flare on their media centers, despite all having the same items within them -- ...

Final Frame: Necessities

We may not have insulation but at least we have two TVs....

Hot Posts 10.18.08: This Week's Top Ten Unplggd Posts

Have you ever played Dawn of the Dead on Xbox? It's pretty scary. Yup, that's what we're doing this Saturday afternoon, and then we're going to continue the fright fest by checking out Quarantine. ...

Sharp Aquos: A New Way To Reduce Your Cable Clutter

One of the things that's so frustrating with home theater systems is the amount of wires that are just lying around. There isn't that much you can do about them, unless you are ready to find some inve...

How To: Mount a Flat Panel TV in the Corner

We have a flat panel TV and the first thing we did was to mount it on the wall. Now our installation was pretty easy because we had an open wall space without obstructions or features we needed to wor...

Close-Up: Turning a Hearth into a Media Room

Name: Amanda Johnson Location: North Canton, Ohio Years Lived In: My brother moved into the house in February of last year, and I moved in at the end of May. What's your philosophy on integrating te...

How to... Piss Off Everybody at The Sports Bar

Step One: Buy a TV-B-Gone universal remote control. Step Two: Buy a baseball bat. Step Three: Wait until the last two minutes of the neck-and-neck NFL game at your local Hooters, then activate said T...

Look! TV Mounted Above Fireplace

There are lots of places to place a flat screen when you're willing to look to your walls for support. Jonathan Craddock and his wife decided the empty spot above their fireplace was the best place f...

Slingbox PRO-HD: High-def to Your Computer Anywhere in the World

We have covered the Slingbox before, but for our readers who aren't familiar with this little box, it allows you to watch your TV on a laptop or mobile phone anywhere in the world....as long as you h...