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Electronics giant and platform holder Sony has launched a brand new HD TV that includes a PS2 built-in. Called the Bravia KDL-22PX300, it includes a 22” 720p HD screen as well as four HDMI slots, three USB ports, Scart and VGA connections, built-in Freeview and an ethernet port for watching …

The Xbox 360 could receive a paid-for online TV service next year, according to reports. Microsoft is planning to introduce a virtual cable service that charges users a monthly fee to view a range of channels. Reuters has allegedly spoken to a number of sources which are familiar with the …

Online retailer ShopTo.Net has run its first ever TV advertisement. The firm teamed up with Ubisoft for the Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood TV ad, promoting the fact consumers can buy it from the retailer for 32.85. The ads ran in the week running up to the release of the game (Friday …

Any hopes of 3D TV being high on consumer’s Christmas wish lists this year appear to have vanished as a new survey suggests that the appetite for the technology in the UK is almost non-existent. A study from price comparison site Twenga, reported by Reg Hardware, which polled over 3,000 …

Call of Duty may be the game of the moment – but online giant Bigpoint wants to steal the game’s audience away to high-end titles played via web browsers. The German firm has told MCV it plans to seriously grow its UK audience next year, using big TV ad campaigns …

Researchers at the University of Arizona have developed a new technology that can provide the fastest moving hologram image ever produced – and they predict the tech will be refined enough for use in the home within seven to ten years. 3DRadar reports that the device uses 16 cameras focused …

Namco Bandai has announced that the first DLC for the recently released action outing Enslaved will add 3D visuals to the game. Furthermore, as well as allowing owners of 3D TVs to play the entire game in full stereoscopic 3D, it will also allow owners of regular 2D TVs to …

The humble TV set-top box is finally emerging as a genuine challenger to Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony. The team behind Freeview successor YouView have told MCV that the new platform – co-funded by UK broadcasters BBC, ITV, Channel 4, and Five plus the likes of BT – will use an …

One of the leading lights of the 3D entertainment movement has said that the current problems dogging the 3D TV market – i.e. the need to wear glasses – mean that the technology can’t hope to make a mainstream breakthrough for another decade. Well, we see the world in 3D,” …

The upcoming Google TV platform is poised to welcome dedicated games functionality – a move that could enable the platform to squarely rival dedicated consoles such as Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii. Google TV is a software platform that will come included in the innards of some new TVs or …