HDTVs and Internet Tie Knot in Vegas

There is no Elvis wedding chapel hosting the ceremony here in Las Vegas this week, but two technologies tied the knot: The Internet and HDTVs.
The marriage of TV and Internet content on one big screen in the living room has been a dream in the tech and telecom industries for years now. At this year's CES, a number of tech companies are taking the first major steps toward making that dream a reality.
Some of the most promising of those steps are being made by TV manufacturers introducing Internet-connected TVs, and media companies like Yahoo designing ways to get Web content onto those TVs.
A spate of new Internet-connected TVs were announced here at CES, including ones from Sony, Samsung, Panasonic, Toshiba and Vizio. Connected TVs come with an ethernet port on the back so that you can plug your DSL directly into the TV and watch YouTube videos, rent Internet movies from services like Netflix or view your Flickr photos from the comfort of your couch. You don't need a PC, a keyboard or a mouse, just a remote control.

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Sony has taken activity extenuative to the next akin in a alternation of accessible TVs that automatically about-face off the affectation if there's no one around.
The Bravia V5 band sets, which will go on auction in a lot of above markets worldwide, are able with a baby sensor beneath the affectation that keeps watch of the allowance to ensure anyone is there. If all the admirers leave the allowance it cuts ability to the LCD (liquid clear display), alone to about-face it aback on if anyone returns. Sony says this after-effects in a 50 percent abridgement in activity burning during the time the affectation is switched off.
Other circuits in the TV abide on and complete continues to be heard. However, if no one reappears in 30 account the set is switched to standby mode.
In accepted use, the V5 televisions absorb beneath ability than their predecessors. The 40-inch and 46-inch models draw 129 watts and 153 watts, respectively, compared to 217 watts and 263 watts, respectively, for the V1 sets that were launched this time endure year.
Sony is aswell featuring a "low-energy switch" that harks aback to the canicule of analog tube sets. In those TVs a automated on/off about-face absolutely cut ability to the TV set, but avant-garde flat-panel sets abide to absorb ability even if they're angry off via the about-face on the set.
The ability burning in this accompaniment is basal at about 0.06 watts, but its not zero. The low-energy about-face on the new Bravia TVs rectifies this and after-effects in aught ability draw.
Sony has aswell cut ability burning on its J-series TVs, which are alone awash in Japan. In the average of 2008, the aggregation launched the JE1 set as a "green" TV. The 32-inch archetypal captivated just 89 watts of ability if in use. The new J5 set reduces this added to 84 watts.
TV makers like Sony are able to abate ability burning by convalescent the architecture of the backlight and screen. In LCD (liquid clear display) TVs, a ablaze console about charcoal continuously on while the set is in use, accouterment ablaze that shines through the awning and allows the angel on the LCD itself to be seen. This is one of the a lot of power-hungry apparatus in the TV set, but new designs acquiesce the backlight ability to be adapted to clothing the account and added able engineering agency beneath ablaze is lost, and a lot of can flash through.
Sony's focus on ability burning in these models is partly an acknowledgment to more environmentally acquainted or cost-sensitive customers. Lower ability TVs are both cheaper to run and aftereffect in a lower absolute carbon brand because they draw beneath power.
The V5 models beat the new EnergyStar 3.0 specification.
The V5 will go on auction in North America after in the aboriginal half. Prices and absolute barrage affairs accept not yet been announced. In Japan they'll hit the bazaar on Feb. 20. The 40-inch archetypal will amount about ¥210,000 (US$2,307) and the 46-inch archetypal will amount ¥280,000.