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Samsung is expected to start rolling out its 2013 smart TV range in NZ from April. Today in Jakarta the Korean consumer electronics giant revealed the scope of products destined for Southeast Asia. The press release doesn’t disclose pricing or availability but says consumers can look forward to TVs with smarter features, superior picture quality [...]

Next month TVNZ will stream Shortland Street ondemand in HD. However, it can be viewed this way only on desktop, not in the iPad and iPhone video-on-demand apps the broadcaster released today. “We’re trialling HD to see if there’s an appetite for it and will keep consumers posted on any development,” a spokeswoman told ScreenScribe.tv [...]

Sony will release more affordable — but smaller — Ultra HD TVs in July. Six months after unleashing its 84-inch behemoth, Sony will offer 65- and 55-inch variations at prices yet to be disclosed. Sony is scaling back its struggling TV production division to concentrate on mobile technology and those displays at the top end [...]

Panasonic’s new flagship plasma TV is ultra flash but not Ultra HD. Unlike rivals Samsung, Sony and LG, which are betting on Ultra HD and OLED technologies to captivate consumers in 2013, Panasonic’s focus appears to be on exacting higher 1080p picture quality from screens no bigger than 65 inches. Today at CES it unveiled [...]

At last the wait is over for fans of True Blood who resisted tuning into its SD season on Prime. On Saturday and Sunday, from midday-6pm, SoHo will screen all 12 episodes of season five back-to-back, in HD, as a box set weekend. This is the first time SoHo has run out a first-run, premium [...]

With the start of the school holidays, Blu-ray distributors are casting their nets wide with pirates, vampires, witches and a whale of a tale. The Pirates! Band of Misfits sets sail on both 2D and 3D Blu-ray, plus a swag of HD extras that includes an 18-minute short featuring the Pirate Captain as a late-night [...]

Sony NZ has still to finalise the price of its first 4K consumer TV but already CNET reckons it will be surpassed by the much cheaper XBR-HX950 HD TV. “Yes, the XBR-HX950 is smaller and lower-resolution, and yes, it’s still extremely expensive at a beginning list price of $US3,500,” CNET says. “But I expect it [...]

Flat-screen TVs look great but often have flat sound. If you don’t want to improve the Full HD experience with a full-on sound system, Bose has just released its Solo TV sound system for $749. It’s a svelte, single speaker that’s designed to sit under TVs up to 42 inches in size and fix the [...]

The race is on to deliver 4K resolution TV to New Zealand, with Sony today announcing its first display would go on sale here before the end of the year. LG also is planning to launch a 4K TV this year and while the NZ pricing of Sony’s 84-inch “ultra-definition” TV has still to be [...]

Sharp NZ will release the world’s biggest consumer LCD-LED TV next month for $15,000. The 80-inch LC80LE940X is the latest addition to Sharp’s AQUOS Quattron HDTV range. It has double the screen area of a 55-inch display and is being launched during Sharp’s centenary year. What’s more, it may be displaced by a 90-inch model [...]