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

Today is Star Wars day (May the Fourth…get it?!), so Lucas and co. have announced the full rundown of what to expect from the entire six-movie Blu-ray set they’re releasing on September 16th.

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Star Wars Blu-ray bonus features announced

Fact: upscaled retro video games look like crap on a 720 or 1080p HDTV only because those games weren’t made to support such high resolutions. How do you make them look better? By plugging in this SLG 3000 doodad into your HDTV and cover up the pixelation with faux analog TV scanlines.

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Handy adapter makes old NES games look good on your HDTV

Sharp decided that it would be kinda cool to cover a room at their CES booth with 64 huge LED TVs, including three walls, the ceiling, and the floor. They’re all synced up to display one wraparound image, effectively making five-sixths of a holodeck .

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Sharp packs 64 TVs into giant video wall, floor, and ceiling

Why do chalkboards still even exist in classrooms? With today’s amazing touchscreen surfaces , the dusty chalkboard is practically a relic. No chalkboard can compare to LG’s Touch TV, an interactive multitouch 60-inch plasma that lets anyone add their own layer of content on top of the TV’s.

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Classrooms of the future should all have Touch TVs

How large does an HDTV need to get before it’s considered too big to be labeled portable? Personally, I’d say the sweet spot for a portable tube would be no larger than 19-inches (diagonal). Toshiba, makers of all things non-mainstream is introducing a new line of battery-operated HDTVs.

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Battery-powered 32-inch HDTV borders on ‘portable’

The thing about enjoying 3D at home is that it really depends greatly on your screen size. The larger your 3D TV is, the better your 3D viewing experience will be, mainly because a bigger screen will create the illusion that you are immersed in the third dimension. Panasonic’s gone ahead and added 3D to its too-large-for-most-people 103-inch plasma TV .

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Panasonic’s 103-inch 3D plasma TV is a party for one

Sony and Google TV have finally fulfilled a 30-year-old search for a successful convergence of the TV and the PC. And while the Sony Internet TV powered by Google (the official mouthful of a name) runs on Android, the OS looks and acts nothing like Android does on a smartphone, and bears only a passing resemblance to current connected TV interfaces. It could completely change the way you watch TV - in a good way.

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5 Pros, 5 Cons for Sony Internet TV