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Vizio actually teased a 21:9 TV at last year’s CES, and one year later it’s ready to deliver: the Vizio Cinema HDTV LED LCD is here. The TV handles a 2560 x 1080 resolution in a 21:9 aspect ratio, just like that 21:9 Philips display we’ve been drooling over for the past couple of years, and comes in 50-inch and 58-inch flavors. Details are still pretty scarce, since all we have right now is a teaser page, but we doubt there’s much more going on here. Basically, ultra-wide CinemaScope-style movies on a set that will likely be much cheaper than Philips’ offering — and more likely to show up at your local Costco. We look forward to the full announcement later this week. Also: buying one.

[Thanks, Kacy]

Vizio bringing 21:9 Cinema HDTV to CES with 2560 x 1080 resolution, all our hopes and dreams originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 Jan 2011 03:22:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oh LG, you infernal tease. Instead of politely revealing its full set of plans for CES 2011, the Korean company keeps gently peeling away the layers of ignorance, with today marking its pre-announcement of a new Cinema 3D TV set. The LW6500 opts for passive 3D glasses, in place of the currently popular active shutter goggles, which has garnered it a couple of industry certifications to say that its 3D is guaranteed, definitely, totally flicker-free. Aside from that, you get a neat brightness booster to ensure that switching on the third dimension doesn’t dim the picture unduly, while the rest of the specs and extras on this 200Hz panel seem mostly unremarkable. We’ll be casting our eyeballs over it at CES next week, which will be followed, we’re told, by a rollout in select markets shortly thereafter.

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LG’s LW6500 Cinema 3D TV is certified flicker-free, launching at CES originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 29 Dec 2010 07:06:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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As you can imagine, the thought of a marriage between a broadband / cable TV service provider and a content provider for television and movies has more than a few folks concerned, which is why it’s taken a while for the FCC and its erstwhile chairman Julius “Caesar” Genachowski to draft the conditions under which it would let Comcast snatch up 51 percent of NBC Universal. According to the Wall Street Journal, the FCC wants to require that Comcast make any content owned by itself and NBCU available to competitors (including streaming video providers) “at reasonable, nondiscriminatory terms.” Additionally, Comcast will be barred from prioritizing its own video streams above others or interfering with rival Internet traffic. Of course, without the actual announcement, it’s hard to know what impact this will have on everyone involved (especially Hulu), although with any luck the actual proposal will see the light of day soon enough. Even then, it will need to be approved, which could happen early next year.

FCC proposes rules for NBC-Comcast deal originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 25 Dec 2010 06:15:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Last week we put the question to you, dear reader–what is the worst tech product of 2010? We asked our staff to whittle down the list to a handful of candidates and put them up for a public vote.

You overwhelmingly chose the dark horse candidate. It beat out lackluster entries from such tech giants as Google, Microsoft, and Apple. Heck, it even beat FusionGarage’s much, much-hated JooJoo tablet. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, you really, really don’t like the TV Hat.

The As Seen on TV device (fittingly sold over at asseenonTVHat.com) managed to get a few votes shy of 50 percent of the total vote–several times more than the closest competitor.

So, what precisely is so shockingly bad about this product? Well, just look at the thing–it’s a baseball cap with a TV attached to the bill–it combines the social habits of shut-ins with the fashion sense of apiarists for one of the most awkward convergence devices we’ve ever seen. It’s also a solution in search of a problem–a clunky, oversized, neck-wrenching solution.

Killer flying robots? No, not this time. Our fearless leader is back once again in Jimmy Fallon‘s guest chair, this time with a bunch of new holiday gear at his disposal. Other guests include Jason Segel (Gulliver’s Travels), Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit), and Dr. Elmo himself performs “Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer.” All the madness starts at 12:37AM tonight care of your local NBC affiliate… oh, and speaking of robots, don’t forget to check out this week’s Engadget Show while you wait.

Josh is on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon tonight! It’s a holiday miracle! originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 20 Dec 2010 21:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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