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Helping to usher in a potential future where we can finally video chat via our television, Samsung has become the latest company to partner with Skype to allow Internet-based calling on its HDTVs. The electronics company will have Skype as a standard feature for its new 7000 and 8000 LED sets, which started selling in [...]

The winners in the 2009 HDTV wars were value-priced Vizio and stylish stalwart Samsung, according to research firm iSuppli. Vizio was the biggest shipper of LCD televisions last year, nearly doubling its units shipped from 2008, while Samsung took the top spot for overall HDTV shipments, thanks to both its LCD and plasma sets. Despite [...]

If you’re like me, the interface with which you interact with your cable box isn’t exactly elegant. Like your PC running Windows 95 inelegant. And despite the snazzier UIs that are popping up on streaming video devices and TiVos, there isn’t a big incentive for cable companies to push back on their set-top box providers [...]

So you’ve already planned on buying your 3D HDTV and your 3D Blu-ray player. What else do you need? (Besides some 3D glasses and actual 3D content.) If you have a home theater system in place and you want to hear those 3D discs in surround sound, you’ll want a receiver to which you can connect [...]