TVSnob Monthly Round-Up For April 2008

April has been a killer busy month, and if you haven't been here everyday to catch the latest ins and outs of TV, chances are you're behind. There's probably something you don't know that's costing you money and/or picture quality, and not necessarily in that order. So, as we do at every month-end, we're posting a round-up of every single thing we clued you in on in the last 30 days. Like we said though, it's been a lot, so take a look after the jump...

Blu-ray

• Samsung BD-P1500 Blu-ray Player Set For Release Along With HT-BD2F Home Theater In A Box?
• Samsung BD-P1500 Blu-ray Player Faces Delays With BD Live Implementation
• Blu-ray Disc And PS3 Sales Skyrocket After HD DVD's Demise
• Universal Studios Releasing Blu-ray Discs Beginning July 22
• NVIDIA GeForce GPUs Optimizes Blu-ray Playback In Laptops
• 81% Of Japanese Intend To Purchase A Blu-ray Player
• Sony BDZ-A70 Blu-ray DVR Rips TV Shows To Your PSP
• Sony Creating LCD TV With Integrated Blu-ray Player In Effort To Dominate Global Blu-ray Market
• Hannah Montana Makes Blu-ray History With 3D Disc Debut

DIY

• How To Calibrate Your HDTV On A Budget
• How To ChildProof Your Home Theater

DLP

• Business Projectors: What You Need To Know Before You Buy
• Projection Design Launches Three Avielo DLP Projectors In Munich

DVD Players/Recorders

• Sony Releases 8 New "Made For Your Bravia" DVD Recorders
• Next-Generation Hybrid DVD Player From Touch Interactive

Deal of the Day

• HDTV Deals For The Week Of April 27/08
• HDTV Deals For The Week Of April 20/08
• HDTV Deals: For The Week Of April 13/08
• HDTV Deals: For The Week Of April 6

Digital TV Transition 2009

• DTV2009: Low Power Stations Get $65 Million To Make Switch To Digital
• DTV2009: Do I Need To Buy A New Set Of Rabbit Ears For My Analog TV? Even If I Have A Converter Box?
• DTV2009: Are You Aware Of The 90 Day Expiration Date On TV Converter Box Coupons?
• How To Buy A Digital TV On The Cheap
• DTV2009: What Is Analog Pass-Through? What's Analog Pass-Through Have To Do With My Converter Box?
• DTV2009: FCC Head Honcho Kevin Martin Forgets About Digital TV Transition, Instead Shows His Anti-Consumer Colors
• DTV2009: National Association of Broadcaster's CEO "Will Leave No TV Set Behind"
• DTV2009: Best Buy, Circuit City Among Retailers Fined By FCC For Improper Labeling Of Analog-Only TV's
• DTV2009: Beware Of Converter Box Coupon Scammers
• US Senators: Residents Of "Tribal Areas", Senior Citizens Too Stupid To Find Converter Box Coupon Website
• Verizon Doling Out Free Set-Top Boxes To Its Last Fios TV Analog Subscribers
• GE 22730 Digital Converter Box Reviewed
• Brady Bunch Mom Hops On DTV2009 Educational Bandwagon, Wants To Get Seniors Prepared
• DTV2009: Retailers Trying To Sell You Analog TV's Without You Knowing Says FCC

Gaming Systems

• Best Buy Offers "Professional" XBox Game "Installation"
• PS3 Firmware Update 2.30 Supports DTS-HD Master Audio
• Watch BBC Programming With Your Wii Using The BBC iPlayer
• Microsoft Says Lite-On Xbox 360 Rumor Bull&^&#
• Xbox 360 To Get Integrated Blu-ray In Its Next Console Release?

General News

• Rumor: Matsushita May Be Merging With Sanyo, Trading Suspended In Japan
• Reality TV Fans Make For Promiscuous Facebook Friends
• Five Studio Premium TV Venture Will Have Big Online Focus
• 2008 Beijing Olympics Will Be The Biggest HD-Broadcasted Event Ever
• How Do You Sell More Real Estate? Sell It As A Filming Location
• Why You Should Subscribe To Verizon's Fios TV

HD-DVD

• Toshiba's Bank Account Takes Massive Hit: Thanks HD DVD

HDTV

• Rumor: Matsushita May Be Merging With Sanyo, Trading Suspended In Japan
• LG And HP Coming With "Over 80" DivX-Certified Digital TV's
• Matsushita Looking To Jack Up Panasonic HDTV Sales 40%
• Dolby, THX Want To Improve Your HDTV Picture
• 5.5 Million HDTV's Purchased During Christmas 2007 And Super Bowl 2008, Gamers Driving Growth
• $9 For An HD VOD Movie Rental? I Don't Think So
• 44 Million HD Homes Worldwide By End Of 2008, 180 Million By 2012
• 2008 Beijing Olympics Will Be The Biggest HD-Broadcasted Event Ever
• Why You Should Subscribe To Verizon's Fios TV
• Mitsubishi's LaserVue Laser TV Coming Later This Year, Plus 14 New LCD And DLP HDTV's
• Sony XEL-1 OLED TV Now Available On Amazon
• Chief Thinstall TV Mounts: "Industry's Thinnest"
• VisWall: See Your High-Def Picture, And Feel It Too
• New York Yankees To Get 5925 Square Foot High-Definition Scoreboard
• Verizon's FiOS HD VOD Going Live

HTPC

• Shuttle XPC G5 6801M HTPC With Blu-ray/HD DVD Combo Drive Hits Europe

Home Theater A/V

• Samsung BD-P1500 Blu-ray Player Set For Release Along With HT-BD2F Home Theater In A Box?
• Kevin Rose Goes "Cheap" On His Home Theater Setup
• Gais Lisire Aluminum Speakers: Perfect Audio Addition For Web TV Fans
• Panasonic SC-BT100 Blu-ray Home Theater: Don't Rush Out The Door For This $1000 System

How to buy an HDTV

• How To Buy A Digital TV On The Cheap
• How To Calibrate Your HDTV On A Budget
• 3 Things You Must Know If You're Buying A Used Projector

LCD TV

• LG's Scarlet LCD TV: Did Scarlet The Actress Overshadow Scarlet The TV
• JVC Closing Ancient CRT And LCD TV Plant In The UK
• Sony's Expanding Its European BRAVIA Biz: Slovakian Production To Double In 2008
• Sharp Posts Strong LCD Sales In 2007 Fiscal Year, Still Loses Money
• JVC Loses $455 Million In The Past Year, Finally Realizes Rear-Projection And Tube TV's Are Dead
• Samsung Posts Big Q1 Profits Thanks To Huge LCD TV Sales Numbers
• LG Display Grinding Out 32-57 Inch LCD TV Panels On New 8G Production Line
• Sony And Samsung Spilling $2 Billion Into Extra 8G LCD Line For JV S-LCD
• Bigscreen LCD TV Panel Shipments Down 9.9% Since Christmas
• LG Display To Manufacture Energy-Saving LCD TV's Later In 2008
• Samsung's Series 6 And Series 7 LCD TV's With Touch Of Color Slowly Trickling Onto Shelves
• Westinghouse Flip TV The Perfect "Other Room" LCD TV Solution
• LCD TV Price Drops Coming Soon?
• LG Display Begins Pumping Out 19.8mm Thin, 42-Inch LCD Panels
• HP MediaSmart Internet TV's Get Firmware Update, Use Microsoft Media Center Extender To Bring Your PC To Your HDTV
• Samsung And Armani Team Up For New LCD TV Lineup
• Sharp LC-46D64U LCD TV Reviewed
• JVC Pulling Out Of The Japanese LCD TV Market?
• Sony Bravia XBR6, XBR7, And XBR8 Series' Coming With 13 New Models, LED Backlighting
• Hitachi Gets 6 New Wooo LCD HDTV's And 3 Wooo Plasmas
• Hyundai E465S 3D Stereoscopic LCD TV World's First
• Pioneer Adds LCD's To New European Kuro Lineup
• Sony Bravia E4000 Series A Statement In Home Decoration
• 10 More REGZA's From Toshiba In The Next Few Months
• Dolby's 46-Inch Prototype LCD TV Gives Us A Glimpse Into The Future Of HDTV's

Media Center

• Iomega ScreenPlay HD Multimedia Drive Brings High-Def Web Video To Your Home Theater

Media Streamers

• Bravia's DMX-BV1 Internet Video Link Is Now Available
• Who Has The Best Movie Download Service? Vudu Says HDTV Magazine
• Myka's BitTorrent Set-Top Box Blows Them All Away
• Blockbuster Developing Set-Top Box?

Mobile TV

• Free-To-Air Mobile TV Hot In China, Key Driver Of Cell Phone Sales
• Dish Network And Alcatel-Lucent Teaming Up To Test New Mobile TV Standard In The US
• Verizon Wireless Packs TMZ And Others Onto Its V CAST Video Mobile TV Service
• Verizon Wireless Gets Two New MTV Networks Channels, And Funny Or Die, For Mobile TV Fans
• Fox Launching Fox Mobile Entertainment Network Bringing An Awesome List Of TV Shows To Your Mobile Phone

OLED TV

• 32-Inch OLED TV's From LG Display In 2011? We're Not So Sure
• Samsung OLED TV's Coming In 2009?
• Sony XEL-1 OLED TV Coming To Europe?
• Sony's XEL-1 OLED TV Gets Torn Down And Taken Apart
• Sony's Future OLED TV's Barely Visible As OLED's Now 0.2mm Thin
• Sony's New OLED Pro Camera Boasts Well For OLED TV

PVR & DVR

• Mobilygen Build World's First HD Surveillance DVR

Plasma

• Rumor True: Matsushita And Pioneer Come To Plasma Panel Agreement, Viera's And Kuro's Will Use Identical Panels
• Matsushita Has Plans To Takeover The Plasma TV Market, Begin Producing OLED TV's
• Rumor: Pioneer Reached Plasma Panel Production Agreement With Matsushita
• LG Xcanvas BoBos Plasma HDTV's Headed For Korean Shelves
• Hitachi Gets 6 New Wooo LCD HDTV's And 3 Wooo Plasmas
• Pioneer Adds LCD's To New European Kuro Lineup
• Runco PlasmaWall XP-50DHD HDTV Reviewed
• Are We Nearing The End Of Plasma TV?

Portable Media Players

• Sunview PMPP: World's First Pico-Projector Portable Media Player From SunLink

Projectors

• Pioneer Kuro KRF-9000HD Projector Features LCoS Technology, Hefty Price
• Business Projectors: What You Need To Know Before You Buy
• Projection Design Launches Three Avielo DLP Projectors In Munich
• Panasonic Debuts "Industry's First Widescreen" Wireless Projector, Plus Two Others
• Epson Introduces PowerLite Pro Series Commercial Projectors Plus Two Other PowerLite Models
• Sunview PMPP: World's First Pico-Projector Portable Media Player From SunLink
• ViewSonic PJ413DB DLP Projector: Business Friendly And Budget Conscious
• Kaga Electronics Launching 4 New Taxan Series 2 DLP Projectors In Japan
• JVC DLA-HD100 And DLA-RS2 D-ILA Projectors Reviewed
• Pioneer Adds LCD's To New European Kuro Lineup
• 3 Things You Must Know If You're Buying A Used Projector
• Planar's PD8130 And PD8150 Home Theater Projectors
• Panasonic's PT-F200NTU And PT-F200U Projectors Expensive, But Feature Cost-Reducing Technologies
• Mitsubishi's WL6700U WXGA Projector Hits Shelves This Month

TV Biz

• JVC Pulling Out Of The Japanese LCD TV Market?
• CSI Creator Anthony Zuiker On A Mission To Bring Viewers Back To TV

TiVo

• TiVo New Website Design Fair, My TV Facebook App Lacking

Web TV

• Five Studio Premium TV Venture Will Have Big Online Focus
• CSI Creator Anthony Zuiker On A Mission To Bring Viewers Back To TV
• Hulu Moving Outside US Borders?
• Reality Shows Reveal Insight Into What Makes A Web TV Show Popular
• Stanley Cup 2008 Goes Web TV At NHL.com
• H.264 Codec Is Key To HD Video On The Web: Adobe's Kevin Towes

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