Still watching TV on that 16:9 “widescreen” TV? Unless you’re rocking a 21:9 widescreen TV, you’re not getting the full cinema experience, no matter how much you trust your home theater technician. Time to get a “cinema” TV.

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Vizio’s super wide 3D TVs display movies properly in 21:9

Sony has been going through a rough time recently, so news that they have decided to get out of the OLED TV business for the consumer market, isn’t going help boost anyone’s confidence.

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Sony quits the OLED TV business as others ramp up

CES starts next week, and already the hype machine has been turned to 11. Earlier this week, LG proudly announced that it will be showing off “the future of TV technology,” in “the world’s largest OLED HDTV” at the company’s CES booth. Uh-huh. And Karolina Kurkova has promised me a date.

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Opinion: CES 2012, or ‘The Great OLED Tease’

HDTV-based video telephony has always been a holy grail of sorts. It’s such a natural milieu for video chatting — big screen to get a broad view of the whole fam damily and all that. But no TV-based video telephony system has been taken off, for one reason: You always had to buy two gadgets to attach to your HDTV to video telephonate, one for you and one for whomever you wanted to video telephonate with. What we want is to video telephonate as we do on our laptops and desktop PCs, with anyone anytime, regardless of the HDTV we own and regardless of the video telephony gadget we have connected to it (if any). Several recent developments — and a future trend too long in the unveiling — may expand this limited HDTV video telephony landscape and jump-start our (I believe) latent desire to WANT to video telephonate via our HDTVs.

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Opinion: If you build it (in), they will video chat

A few rumors have gone around suggesting Apple’s going to revolutionize the TV with Siri and Sony’s already quaking in its boots. Sony CEO Howard Stringer says it’s already building a “different kind of TV set” to “compete with Steve Jobs.” Does that mean Sony’s “cracked the TV” too as the late Steve Jobs told Walter Isaacson in his biography?

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Sony plans to beat Apple to a revolutionary new TV

Star Trek: The Next Generation is one of the very few shows that I would personally fork over a bunch of money to own in HD on Blu-ray, as soon as they get around to it. There’s just one problem with my awesome plan: an HD conversion of the TNG episodes simply can’t be done.

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Star Trek: TNG getting HD conversion even though it’s impossible

Many companies show off outlandish technologies at trade shows just to get attention, and I guess I fell victim to the ploy. Maybe you would, too: Sharp showed an 8k4k HDTV — that’s an 85-inch, 7680-by-4320-pixel display — 16 times the resolution of today’s 1080p sets, and approaching if not passing the theoretical resolution of 35mm film (which, of course, has no pixels).

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World’s first ‘8k4k HDTV’ gets a release date, sort of

Tailgating , the art of getting hammered in a stadium parking lot before a sporting event, is serious business. But it’s about to get more serious with the introduction of Dish Network’s Tailgater.

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Dish Network releases a portable satellite dish for tailgating

If you’re one of the millions who enjoy free pristine HDTV over the air using an antenna, the party could soon be over.

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CEA plan could end free over the air HDTV forever

If you want bragging rights for the highest def video display on the block, you can forget about that Mitsubishi 4K display we got excited about last year, because it’s now been upstaged by a Sharp Super Hi-Vision display with an unbelievable 33MP of resolution.

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Sharp’s insanely high-rez display makes your HDTV look fuzzy