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The new Apple TV has received much less fanfare as the new iPad.  Both were released 3 weeks ago, and while you may be constanly craving the new iPad, the new Apple TV will offer an equally jaw dropping experience, for much less money.

Here's a review of the new Apple TV. 

We’ve seen them before with small sizes and high prices but this year OLED TVs are set to make a big splash with several reasonably priced large screen HDTVs using the technology hitting shelves this year from both Samsung and LG. Lets take a closer look at this exciting display technology and run down why its getting so much attention.

With many HDTV screens creeping up to 80-inches in diameter, are home cinema projectors still as desirable? We tested the Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 3010, available from Future Shop for $1749.99 and made it the centre of our home theatre system, here's what we found out.

My fellow bloggers, Elliott and Buzz, have weighed in with their thoughts from CES 2012 in Las Vegas, and what they see as the big factors for the next 12 months until we do it all over again. That leaves it to me to offer my two cents about what I think will come from the show, and why the companies that aren’t there sometimes reap the benefits.

Roku is known for making very compelling and affordable set-top boxes and has now redefined the genre by squeezing everything into a convenient device the size of a USB stick.

As the Christmas shopping season started ramping up, I was asked by a relative about the prospect of wall-mounting his TV — something that immediately triggered in me the experience I went through in doing it myself. Undoubtedly, there’s something more ornamental about having it hang off a wall, but proper research and planning are a must if you want to wall-mount your TV.

The folks at Sling Media have been fairly busy in the last few weeks, what with SlingPlayer software apps being released for Android, Facebook and now the Boxee Box. I’ll be writing a post on the Android experience in a few days, but since the Boxee Box app just came out, I played with it for a few hours and found it to be a great debut.

I have one.

I want another one.

I want one for every tv in my house. 

I got my cable bill this week. $170 for phone, internet and television.  It's too much. While many people have already cut the home line ($37 a month is what we're paying for my wife's piece of mind), the scissors are starting to come out for the television side of the monthly bill as well.

With the latest updates to Apple's iOS5, Apple TV got a little upgrade too which is making cutting the cable a little easier (if you've got the guts).

Yesterday was the last day for analog broadcast in Canada - most broadcasters are switching to digital broadcasts for over the air broadcast

While most of us have switched to flat panel tvs and have high definition boxes, pvrs and gadgetry for our cable subscription, 10% of Canadians were still getting local tv over the air - for free.

TV for free?  I totally forgot you could do that. 

If you have an older ‘tube’ TV and you’re watching television from an over-the-air rooftop antenna or a pair of analog ‘rabbit ears’, you’ve only got two days left to go digital. After that, you’ll only see snow on your screen. But if you have an HDTV with a built-in digital tuner (which they pretty much all have) and a digital antenna, then you’ve already made the move to digital. Or, if you have an old TV and a digital converter box, you’re also good to go.

If you are a Facebook user and if you have Telus Optik TV at home, here's a neat little announcement from Telus. Telus Optik TV users can now view Facebook from their TVs! So now you can get your Facebook crave while watching TV, you can Like or Dislike shows that you're watching and more.

VHS. Cassette decks. Record players. Video stores.

If the nail hadnt been drilled down all the way with the likes of Netflix and On Demand services from cable companies, the release of the Apple TV further hammers the point home that when it comes to getting entertainment into your home on your tv, you no longer need to drive to the video store to make it happen.

There is no bigger wow factor then receiving a large television as a gift over the holidays. Okay maybe a car, but televisions make wonderful gifts! You just have to make sure you purchase the right one. Whether it's 3D or 2D there are so many to choose from. Here are my holiday picks.

For those of us who are looking for HDTV options that won't take up the entire side of your living room, there are plenty of options to choose from under 39". 

With too many options, the task of simply deciding on one may become rather daunting. Take a look to see what we think...