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My Sony flat screen TV is old and is rebooting at least once a day. And the pimps at Sony have overridden my "preferences" to hawk their "woke" alerts and advertisements. All this on the home screen. Since I'm going to upgrade anyway, is there a brand that doesn't pimp the Psuedo Cause du jour when it fires up?

RICHLAND COUNTY, S.C. - All he was trying to do was to stop two men who were taking televisions from a South Carolina department store, police said. Now Duaine Hamilton, 81, is dead, and the local sheriff said he will hold the alleged thieves accountable for HamiltonÂ’s death, WISTV reported. Hamilton was the SearsÂ’s loss prevention officer at the Midlands, South Carolina, store. He had worked for Sears for 13 years. Police said Hamilton stood, blocking the two men, who then shoved him to the ground on Aug. 22. He hit his head on the ground and police said that...

(PhysOrg.com) -- A British firm's quantum dot technology will be used for flat screen TVs and flexible screens, according to the company’s chief executive.The quantum dots will be in use for ultra thin, light flat screen TVs by the end of next year, and, in another three years, will be used in flexible screens rolled up like paper or used as wall coverings. The company, Nanoco Group, is reportedly working with Asian electronics companies to bring this technology to market. “The first products we are expecting to come to market using quantum dots will be the next generation of flat-screen...

The Sierra Club is proposing a tax on video games and televisions with the proceeds going to programs that encourage families to get kids off of the couch and into the mountains. Call it “No Child Left Inside.” Mike Casaus of the Sierra Club says families hiking a mountain trail together are becoming scarce as childhood diabetes and obesity is soaring, which is why the organization is proposing the one-percent tax. “What we would do with this excise tax on tvs and video games and this type of equipment is to tax part of the problem to fund the solution,”...

Governments should tax plasma screen televisions because of the large amount of energy they consume, according to a leading expert on climate change. Professor Paul Ekins, who studies the economics of climate change, said taxing plasma screens would reflect their "greater climate change burden". This would encourage development and take-up of more energy efficient diode screens, Professor Ekins said. He said government could label energy hungry appliances as a first step. Plasma televisions, which are 50% bigger than their cathode-ray tube equivalents, consume about four times more energy, according to the government-funded Energy Saving Trust.

MAKUHARI, Japan--Anyway you look at it, 8.84 million pixels is a lot of points of light. Sharp has produced a 64-inch LCD monitor that provides screen resolution four times that of normal high-definition screens. Normal HD screens have 2 million pixel points. The new Sharp monitor, which is being shown off by the company at the Ceatec consumer technology trade show in Japan this week, sports a 4096 x 2160 pixel-line resolution--double the number of vertical and horizontal pixel lines offered by a normal HD screen. This comes to almost nine million pixel points. Small details, like plumes of smoke...

Gizmos land among CES 'mega-trends' as U.S. sales rocket It's all about portable music players and flat-panel TVs. One look around the floor of the Las Vegas Convention Center confirms that, with much of the space devoted to companies pitching all manner of MP3 devices and big- screen televisions. And no wonder - U.S. shipping revenues of portable MP3 players in the first 11 months of last year were up 224 percent over 2004. And sales of flat-panels - LCD and plasma sets - are expected to go from $6 million in 2005 to $10 million this year, helped by...

Now in his final months as the No. 1 news anchor in the nation, NBC's Tom Brokaw should be taking a victory lap. Instead, his ratings are flagging. To date in this television season, which began in September, "NBC Nightly News With Tom Brokaw" has lost 15% of its viewers in the key news demographic of adults 25 to 54 years old, compared with this point a year ago. ABC's "World News Tonight With Peter Jennings" is down just 7% in that group -- allowing the broadcast to win the May "sweeps" ratings period in the demographic for the first...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Published on TaipeiTimes http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2003/11/26/2003077281 TVs the latest target in US-China trade dispute ECONOMICS: First it was bras, now it's televisions. Stoking fears of a trade war between the first and fifth biggest traders, the US is targeting TV imports REUTERS , WASHINGTON ANDHONG KONG Wednesday, Nov 26, 2003,Page 1 The US accused Chinese companies of dumping televisions on the US market and slapped stiff duties on the products in the latest flare-up in trade tension between the two economic giants. The US Commerce Department ruled on Monday that televisions from four Chinese firms were being sold in the US...