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Article | 2/09/2011 Samsung is giving away free 3D glasses

Samsung is liquidating its stock of 3D glasses for its 2010 range of 3D TVs -- the first generation of 3D models which included the excellent Series 7...

Article | 11/08/2011 HTC joins with Beats By Dr. Dre

Major smartphone manufacturer HTC has made a 'strategic investment' in the Beats By Dr. Dre audio company -- partly responsible for celebrity-endorsed...

Article | 9/08/2011 Universal 3D glasses coming in 2012

Panasonic, Samsung and Sony are collaborating on a universal standard for 3D TV glasses, working with XPAND 3D to bring out active-shutter glasses tha...

Article | 27/07/2011 JB Hi-Fi three hour sale cuts prices on Apple Macs, TVs and cameras

Apple laptop and desktop computers, digital cameras and TVs are just a few of the products attracting significant savings at a three-hour-long JB Hi-F...

Article | 27/06/2011 Pioneer creates 'Sound Wing' thin-speaker soundbar and speakers

Pioneer has shown off a soundbar and satellite speakers with flat-panel speaker driver technology, allowing speaker widths of under an inch. The new P...

Article | 27/06/2011 Pioneer releases its home audio receivers for 2011

Pioneer has announced the Australian availability of its new home audio receivers for 2011. Key features of the new products include Apple Airplay at ...

Article | 23/06/2011 Samsung shows off 4K super-high resolution 3D TV

Sharp and NHK may be bringing us the 33-million pixel HDTV but Samsung's 8-million pixel, 70in HDTV sounds impressive in its own right.

Article | 27/05/2011 Pioneer AppRadio Australian price and release announced

Pioneer has released the Australian price and a tentative release date for its AppRadio car stereo. The system connects to an Apple iPhone or iPod tou...

Article | 26/05/2011 Pioneer announces AppRadio iPhone in-car unit

Thanks to things like GPS apps and large music collections on our iOS devices, iPods/iPhones and cars go hand-in-hand these days. On Wednesday, Pionee...

Article | 25/05/2011 Bose VideoWave combines TV and home theatre in all-in-one system

Bose has unveiled its VideoWave entertainment system, a LCD TV with an inbuilt home theatre system with eleven directional speakers. According to Bose...

Article | 18/05/2011 Apple's rumoured product reveal: 5 predictions

Out of nowhere, Apple is rumored to reveal a new product over the weekend, sending Apple Stores into lockdown mode on Saturday night to prepare.

Article | 11/05/2011 Panasonic's 2011 TV line-up

Panasonic has launched its 2011 television line-up, with both plasma and LED 3D TVs released. A full range of televisions from cheap small LCD TVs to ...

Article | 11/05/2011 New Panasonic TVs focus on 3D and IPTV video-on-demand

Panasonic has announced the Australian availability and pricing of its 2011 range of VIERA plasma and LED TVs. The new televisions have a focus on 3D ...

Article | 11/05/2011 Kogan takes on the Australian Government

Not content with baiting Australia’s television manufacturers, JB Hi-Fi and Gerry Harvey, controversial cut-price online retailer Kogan has claimed th...

Article | 10/05/2011 'Talking' set top box could be part of Govt $308.8m digital TV hand-out

Digital TV equipment manufacturer Bush Australia has shared details on its 'talking' set top box for digital TV, which is currently in development and...

Article | 10/05/2011 Government developing 'talking' set-top box for blind citizens

Several Australian companies are developing 'talking' digital TV set-top boxes that provide synthetic speech descriptions of electronic program guide ...

Article | 28/04/2011 Sony to restart Blu-ray Disc production in late May

Sony plans to resume production of Blu-ray and other optical discs at a tsunami-hit factory in northern Japan in late May, it said Thursday.

Article | 20/04/2011 Sonos releases Android controller app for ZonePlayer media streamers

Sonos has released an Android application that allows Android smartphone users to control their Sonos wireless music systems via Wi-Fi. The Android ap...

Article | 18/04/2011 LG Cinema 3D TVs available in Australia from April

LG has announced that its range of Cinema 3D plasma and LED televisions will be on sale in Australia from April onwards, with two models already avail...

Article | 18/04/2011 LG launches Smart TV televisions in Australia

LG has announced the imminent release of its 2011 plasma and LED TV line-up, with TVs that can access the Internet to download new release movies and ...