Tvs

Love Hulten’s Yesterday Vision is an HDMI monitor with an enclosure that looks like it was made in the 1960s or 1970s. It has a built-in Raspberry Pi that’s loaded with a retro video game emulator. By default, it comes with a 19″ 1280×1024 display, but you can commission larger builds.

Vizio’s latest M-Series displays offer a crystal clear 4K image, fantastic contrast, brilliant colors with HDR and Dolby Vision, and the latest in smart TV streaming features, including built-in Chromecast support. Read on for our full review.

The pinnacle of performance from one of the best TV makers out there – the new Vizio P-Series Quantum offers 4K and Dolby Vision HDR, quantum dot tech, 192 local dimming zones, and brightness output up to 2000 nits, making it the most vibrant display Vizio has ever made.

The Aftermaster Pro is a small gadget that will enhance your TV’s sound, especially if you’re using its built-in speakers. It automatically increases the volume and depth and clarifies dialogue. Simply plug it in between your source and your TV and you’re good to go.

It’s not as thin as LG’s wallpaper TV, but Sony’s upcoming A1E is a sight to behold as well. It’s also rocking an OLED display for excellent blacks and viewing angles. It has a kickstand that also houses its guts, keeping the display itself thin and nearly borderless.

LG’s new “wallpaper” TV gets its moniker from the fact that its OLED panel is just 0.1″ thick – it’s so thin it can only be wall-mounted. All of its ports and other electronics are integrated into a Dolby Atmos 4.2 soundbar, connected by a skinny ribbon cable. Available in 65″ or 75″.

Samsung made a series of small borderless displays that can form a larger display. One of the technology’s practical applications is the Transformable TV, which can physically switch between two aspect ratios. Skip to 1:27.

The latest displays from LG not only offer the bright colors, inky blacks, and slim profile OLED tech is known for, but these sets support the “next big thing” – high dynamic range capability – where contrast between the brightest and darkest areas is unlike anything you’ve seen.

Designed by Studio Bouroullec, the Serif bucks the trend of increasingly thin televisions. It was made to look solid and utilitarian, like a classic piece of furniture. It will be available in select European countries in 24″, 32″ and 40″ sizes.

Philips improves its Ambilight technology with AmbiLux HDTVs. Starting with a 65″ model, these AmbiLux sets each have nine tiny projectors at the back that extend not just the color but also the general motion and shapes of objects on-screen.

Vizio aims to truly bust open the 4K market with this new line of well-priced sets with excellent image quality. Each features full-array LED local dimming, and Vizio’s powerful upscaling tech for non-4K content. In 43″ to 80″ sizes.

The ultimate large-format television costs more than a loaded Jaguar F-Type, but it offers a massive 105″ diagonal curved screen and offers truly cinematic 4K resolution and amazing contrast thanks to UHD local dimming.

Fluffy Spider Technologies has developed this slick library of user interface components for browsing home media and program guides on TVs, set-top boxes and other consumer electronic devices.

Probably the coolest thing we saw at CES 2012, it uses over 6.2 million tiny LEDs, providing the smoothest, brightest, most colorful images we’ve ever seen. Too bad it’s just a prototype – for now.

One of the eye-popping products to be shown at CES 2012, LG claims that their 55″ OLED television will have “the most natural colors on any TV set.” It’s only 0.16″ thick and weighs only 16.5lbs.

Toshiba’s REGZA 55X3 offers 55 inches of 3D TV without glasses. 2D content plays at a native 3840×2160 resolution. Bad news? Japan only so far, priced around $11,500, and 3D is only 720p.

Sony promises a virtual screen size of over 750 inches with their 720p HD OLED head-mounted display, capable of showing movies and games in 3D, as well as 5.1 surround sound.

Combining a flat-screen HDTV with a gas or wood-burning fireplace, Loewe’s MCZ Scenario definitely makes an impression. For Europe only at this point – everyone else just go with this instead.

Samsung’s designers have nearly eliminated all traces of bezel on their latest LED/LCD televisions, dropping it down to a mere 0.2″. We’ve seen ’em up close, and they’re nothing short of stunning.

Bang & Olufsen have upsized their super-slim aluminum and glass BeoVision 10 LCD television with the largest model now topping out at 46-inches – perfect for hanging alongside your Picasso.

If you’re ready to jump on the 3D HDTV bandwagon, look no further than Samsung’s UN55C7000 HDTV, which cranks out bright 3D images in a svelte 1.1-inch thick package.

We’re a bit past 2001, but Sony’s Bravia NX800 evolves your home theater with 1080p HD, 240Hz refresh rate, WiFi, and a monolithic pedestal that tilts the 46″-60″ HDTV 6 degrees.

It may be gimmicky, but 3D arrives in home theaters this year via Sony and Panasonic, with both releasing 3D-capable TVs which will require special glasses; also: DIRECTV HD 3D.

Gliffy.com outdoes itself with the Epic HDTV Buyer’s Guide, which covers everything from its primary use (gaming woot!), size (the bigger the better), and brands (just buy a TV already!).

You can’t Wingardium Leviosa your TV with it, but The Wand Company’s Remote Control Wand can be programmed to change channels and the volume with “magical” gestures.

The craziest thing about Bang & Olufsen’s BeoVision 4-103 isn’t the 103″ Panasonic screen, the motorized stand or its half-ton weight; it’s the fact it costs as much as a freakin’ supercar.

You’ll need to tether it, but Open Air Cinema’s inflatable projection screen delivers a glorious 220″ of widescreen nirvana; add some helium and the whole neighborhood can watch.

Get me a frickin’ laser beam: Mitsubishi’s 65″ LaserVue HDTV is hitting retailers now; it sports 120Hz tech and a 1080p DLP display at roughly half the power of an LCD or plasma.

Luxury trunk designer Pinel & Pinel’s Movie Trunk is a cinemaphile’s dream, and includes a 26″ TV screen, DVD/CD player and a 1300 watt Bang & Olufsen sound system.

Pinnacle’s Video Transfer gadget isn’t glamorous, but it is useful: it’ll easily pull video and audio off virtually any device in MPEG-4/H.264 and transfer it via USB to your PC or iPod.