• How to Buy a Flat-Screen HDTV

  
  Before you drop hundreds or thousands of dollars on the wrong flat-panel HDTV, read our comprehensive breakdown of everything you need to know. Our advice might just help you save some money.

• Top 5 42-Inch HDTVs

  
  Our Best Buy, LG Electronic's 42PG25 Plasma, boasts an attractive price ($1000) and impressive features. Image performance ratings run very close in this category, so be sure to check out our chart.
• Top 46- and 47-Inch HDTVs
• Top 5 50- and 52-Inch HDTVs
• Hitachi P50X902 50-Inch LCD HDTV
• Westinghouse Digital TX-52F480S 52-Inch LCD HDTV
• Sharp LC-52D85U 52-Inch LCD HDTV
• LG Electronics 52LG70 52-Inch LCD HDTV
• LG Electronics 50PG30 50-Inch Plasma HDTV
• Samsung PN50A760 50-Inch LCD HDTV

Editor's HDTV Picks

• Top 5 50- and 52-Inch HDTVs The latest big HDTVs deliver stellar performance, a generous array of the newest inputs, and unique picture adjustment features--at great prices. Check back frequently for the latest updates.
• Top 5 42-Inch HDTVs Our Best Buy, LG Electronic's 42PG25 Plasma, boasts an attractive price ($1000) and impressive features. Image performance ratings run very close in this category, so be sure to check out our chart.

HDTV Reviews

• Westinghouse Digital TX-52F480S 52-Inch LCD HDTV The Westinghouse Digital TX-52F480S attractively displays images and has a few nice touches, but it doesn’t match the better TVs in its price range.
• Hitachi P50X902 50-Inch LCD HDTV Cool features can’t compensate for the Hitachi P50X902’s high price and disappointing picture.
• Sharp LC-52D85U 52-Inch LCD HDTV The Sharp LC-52D85U offers good images but fewer features than some competing TVs.
• LG Electronics 52LG70 52-Inch LCD HDTV The LG 52LG70 is a no-frills LCD HDTV that produces good-looking images
• LG Electronics 50PG30 50-Inch Plasma HDTV Though inexpensive for its screen size, the LG 50PG30 plasma HDTV lacks features and image punch.

HDTV News

• Netflix CEO Heralds the Return of Web TV Silicon Valley tried putting the Web on TV in the 90s with WebTV, but it failed. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings says the concept will work much better this century.
• 15 Hot New Technologies That Will Change Everything Memristor circuits lead to ultrasmall PCs. Intel and AMD unleash massively multicore CPUs. Samsung TVs respond to your every gesture. These and other developing technologies will fundamentally change the way you think about--and use--technology.
• Samsung Claims Thinnest LCD Crown With 7.9mm Screen Samsung has shown a prototype LCD television that's just 7.9mm thin beating the 8mm TV shown by Philips.
• Sharp Has First TVs With Built-in Blu-ray Disc Recorders Sharp will start selling next month in Japan the first LCD televisions with built-in Blu-ray Disc recorders, it said Wednesday.
• Slingbox Pro-HD: Access HD Content From Anywhere What it is, and why it's so cool.

HDTV Playing in PCW Video

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  Sharp Launches Super-Slim TVs Coming in March to Japan, these sets are substantially thinner than current models.
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  CES: Toshiba Puts the Cell Processor Inside a TV Toshiba has taken the Cell microprocessor, the PlayStation 3 chip, and put it inside a television.
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  CES: Sony and Samsung's New OLED TVs New and prototype OLED models from two of the biggest names in flat screen televisions.

HDTV Slideshows

• Top 46- and 47-Inch HDTVs Prices are plunging on plasma and LCD HDTVs. In our tests, we discovered great deals and terrific image quality on HDTVs from Samsung, Vizio, and Panasonic.
• The Top 42-Inch HDTVs You can fetch a great TV in this size for $1000, and for only $100 more you can get fantastic image quality. We tested seven new plasma and LCD models.

HDTV How-Tos

• How to Buy a Flat-Screen HDTV Before you drop hundreds or thousands of dollars on the wrong flat-panel HDTV, read our comprehensive breakdown of everything you need to know. Our advice might just help you save some money.
• Why Don't TVs' Parental Controls Think Like Parents? The parental controls built into today's TVs and DVRs protect our children from adult content. Why not also protect them from too much TV?
• Why Do I Still Get Black Bars On My HDTV? Karlheinz Tyler wants to know why, even with a Blu-Ray player and discs, movies still don't fill the HDTV's screen