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You can suspend those suspenders for only a while. Seventy-eight-year-old TV interview legend Larry King will make his return from a two-year retirement Tuesday with a new half-hour interview show debuting in the early evening on Hulu and Hulu Plus. His first guest: Family Guy and Ted creative mastermind Seth MacFarlane. New installments of Larry Continue Reading →

While regular consumers still wait for the first big screen OLED display to make it to big box stores, Korea’s Ministry of Knowledge Economy has chosen LG to lead the consortium charged with developing a 60-inch flexible OLED by 2017. Part of the Future Flagship Program, its goal is to generate exports and create jobs Continue Reading →

Announced at this year’s CES 2012, Samsung has revealed that it will be bringing Rovio’s Angry Birds to its Smart TVs this month, allowing owners to smash pigs from the comfort of their sofa with new gesture-based controls. The Smart TV app will be the first Angry Birds title to operate on a TV without Continue Reading →

This isn’t the best year for television manufacturers, as total unit shipments are expected to ease some 1.4%, according to data presented by DisplaySearch. That decline is brought about by a slowing in the growth of sales of LCD televisions, which are expected to rise only 5% this year. That’s down around 28% from 2011’s Continue Reading →

The movie and TV streaming joint venture Hulu has closed a deal to license its webseries “Spoilers with Kevin Smith” to the Canadian cable TV channel Space, Variety reports. This is the first time Hulu has sold some of its original content to a TV channel – albeit a non-US one (Space belongs to Canadian Continue Reading →

Samsung’s new top-of-the-line LCD is now available in South Korea, bringing a 75-inch diagonal and an impossibly thin bezel into the hands of a lucky buyer with a thick wallet. The ES9000 has a 7.9mm bezel, Samsung’s Diamond Black Panel which should bring big improvements in clearness, contrast and brightness, and an array of smart Continue Reading →

Just six million people caught The Tony Awards earlier this month on CBS, continuing the downward rating funk of this jewel on the entertainment awards scene. Of the big four annual network TV award ceremonies – the other three being the Academy, Emmy and Grammy Awards – the Tonys, year-in and year-out, land on the Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120620_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] Got a huge blank space in your living room and $11,000 extra bucks lying around? Sharp sure hopes you do.  The company released the largest ever LED television set coming in at a whopping 90 inches.  To give you a sense of scale, that’s as wide as Continue Reading →

The Department of Justice may have taken Netflix chief Reed Hastings’ net neutrality complaints about Comcast as a lot more than just sour grapes. It’s reportedly conducting an investigation into whether Comcast, AT&T and other TV providers are anti-competitive in their data restrictions. The Wall Street Journal cites primary concerns that Comcast’s Xfinity TV cap Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120606_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] This week game makers and gamers alike have made their way to the Electronic Entertainment Expo, better known as E3. So far, the big announcements have come from Xbox and Nintendo and it’s all about multi-screens. Microsoft announced Xbox SmartGlass, an app that will work with Windows Continue Reading →