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Sony's full-frame Alpha A850 digital SLR, now in our digital camera Ratings. (Click to enlarge.)
Sixteen percent of consumers we recently polled said they were interested in buying a point-and-shoot or SLR digital camera during the Thanksgiving weekend. If you're one of them, here's ...
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The Daily Dispatch is a collection of interesting news about computing,
consumer electronics, and other technology gathered from around the Web
by Dirk Klingner, our technology-trend watcher, and other staffers. If
you have a tip on news you want to share, leave a comment below.
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Source: Consumer Reports National Research Center Holiday Poll 2009
It may sound trite, but it’s true: TV buyers are embracing the concept that bigger really is better. About 57% of the consumers planning to buy a TV intend to get one with a 40-inch or larger screen, and many of ...
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I have been seeing a lot of blog posts, discussions, and tweets about a bug in the Motorola Droid phone that causes autofocus to fail on certain dates and work on others.
I decided to talk to Mike Gikas , a Senior Electronics editor here at Consumer Reports to see if he could replicate ...
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Vizio’s VBR100 Blu-ray player will be $100 on Black Friday.
If you’re on the hunt for a high-def Blu-ray player to go with your new flat-panel HDTV , here’s some good news: Our latest Blu-ray player Ratings , available to ConsumerReports.org subscribers, show that prices continue to ...
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Today's deals, courtesy of The Consumerist:
Amazon : Palm Pre Phone (with new service plan from Sprint) for $79.99 w/ Free shipping
Walmart : Virgin Mobile Slash Prepaid Camera Cell Phone with Bluetooth, VMM310SMKIT190 for $20 + $0.97 Shipping
BestBuy : Dynex - 32" Class / 720p / ...
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First it was exchanging old HD DVD discs for Blu-ray versions. Now Warner’s at it again with a “DVD2Blu” program that let’s you swap old DVDs for new Blu-ray versions of the same movie—for a price.
Just go to Warner Bros.' DVD2Blu website and select the movies you want to trade in. You ...
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The Daily Dispatch is a collection of interesting news about computing,
consumer electronics, and other technology gathered from around the Web
by Dirk Klingner, our technology-trend watcher, and other staffers. If
you have a tip on news you want to share, leave a comment below.
A ...
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A new Consumer Reports poll has exposed the secret, selfish underbelly of electronics shopping on Black Friday weekend: It isn’t all about buying for friends and family. A lot of consumers plan to buy gear for themselves.
In the nationally representative telephone poll of 1,000 adults, ...
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Today's deals, courtesy of The Consumerist:
Sixth Avenue : Sharp AQUOS 46" 1080p 120Hz LCD HDTV for $834.72 w/ coupon BONUSBUY w/ Free shipping
B&HPhoto : Samsung PN50B430 50-inch 720p PLASMA HDTV $799 + free shipping
NewEgg : Samsung DualView TL220 12MP Digital Camera (Blue or ...
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The ability to watch TV programs on the Web for free, to download cheap or free programming to your iPod, and to stream video as part of your Netflix subscription is great news—or is it?
That’s the question raised by a thought-provoking article in the New York Times this week . The ...
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Consumer Reports Black Friday shopping poll results. (Click to enlarge.)
A new Consumer Reports poll finds video games and accessories top the list of electronics products consumers will be shopping for over the Black Friday weekend.
Forty-six percent of electronics shoppers said ...
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The controversial regulations by the California Energy Commission (CEC), requiring all TVs sold in the state to meet new energy-efficiency standards, have mostly drawn the expected reactions, with energy-conservation advocates generally lining up behind the proposal and manufacturers opposing ...
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Developers have long complained about Internet Explorer's lack of adherence to web standards as the below Google Sidewiki entry from the Microsoft home page details.
This lack of standardization has affected consumer experiences as sites are forced to either dumb down their web sites to ...
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The Daily Dispatch is a collection of interesting news about computing, consumer electronics, and other technology gathered from around the Web by Dirk Klingner, our technology-trend watcher, and other staffers. If you have a tip on news you want to share, leave a comment below.
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We’d like your help as we prepare our annual report, on bundled telecom services —those packages of television, Internet and telephone service sold by cable, phone, and satellite-TV companies.
Specifically, we’d like to know your experiences with, and some details about, your home telecom ...
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If you, like many Americans, plan to do a chunk of your Black Friday and holiday shopping online this year, here are two points to consider (and two new videos to illustrate them).
Don’t trust Web seals. You might think that the Web seal on a retail site is a sign of the merchant’s ...
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Today's deals, courtesy of The Consumerist:
Sixth Avenue : Pioneer BDP-120 BD-Live Blu-ray Disc Player (PIOBDP120) for $125.02 w/ coupon BONUSBUY w/ free Shipping
Electronics Expo : Polk Audio PSW-10 Subwoofer for $93.39 w/ coupon JKL33X + $19.99 Shipping
Best Buy : Kodak Zi8 ...
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Daily Dispatches are a collection of interesting pieces of news regarding computers, electronics, and technology gathered from around the Web by Dirk Klingner, our technology trend watcher, and other staffers. If you have a hot tip, leave a comment below.
Finding the laws that govern us ...
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Samsung Behold II
Usually successor phones bear a fairly close resemblance to their earlier namesakes. But the Samsung Behold II, $230, available Wednesday from T-Mobile, looks and behaves little like the first Behold .
While that predecessor is an advanced phone with touch screen ...
