Greg Tarr

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3D TV Looking A Little Green

Here’s some news to make 3D TV vendors puke: A Strategy Analytics consumer survey surfaced Tuesday saying 17 percent of Americans believe 3D TVs could post health risks to the eyes while another 55 percent “aren’t sure.” That’s 72 percent of Americans who are feeling a little queasy about plunking down big bucks for the new 3D TVs the industry is... More

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Warning: 3D TV May Enrich Lawyers

The big news du jour is that Samsung has posted a legal disclaimer on its Australian website warning consumers that its new 3D TVs may cause unexpected health reactions among children, teenagers, pregnant women, epileptics and, oh yeah, drunks. It was only a matter of time. In this litigation-happy un-brave new world, anything fun probably will kill you, and that means it’s pay day... More

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FiOS Looks To Expand Into 3D, But No Additional Territories

In the wake of announced plans for 3D service this year from multichannel service providers DirecTV and Comcast, Verizon posted a statement Friday from an executive with its FiOS TV service to update subscribers and potential subscribers on its plans for the new stereoscopic format. In a state of the 3D market address Friday, Verizon product management VP Shawn Strickland said Verizon plans... More

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CE Could Suffer From Scuttling NASA Missions

According to reports from newspapers out of Florida this week, President Barack Obama’s 2011 budget, which will be submitted to Congress on Monday, will propose abandoning NASA’s program to return U.S. astronauts to the moon by the end of the decade, as established under Project Constellation. Other NASA observers have speculated that Obama’s plan is not to scuttle the... More

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California’s CE Retailers Speak Out On CEC Regs

As you might expect, a few retailers that depend on selling big-screen TVs for a living weren’t exactly all warm and fuzzy with the recent California Energy Commission’s (CEC) decision to impose energy-consumption limits on flat-panel TVs 58 inches and smaller. An advocacy group called Californians for Smart Energy (CSE) sent around comments from some of California’s... More