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You might think that having a 14in portable TV on your dresser constitutes TV in bed but you’d be wrong. If you had more cash and less sense, you could have the ultimate ‘TV in bed’ experience with the help of the under-bed plasma TV lift from MK 1 Studios.

This industrial looking piece of engineering is designed to live under your bed, with your other monsters, and has been built to take 50in plasma TVs. When you need some Oprah to send you off to sleep, hit a button and this thing slides out your plasma panel from under the end of the bed and rotates it into position. All in just 45 seconds. Another reason not to go to work. Or even downstairs.-Martin Lynch

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This seemingly low-end X-540 surround set from Logitech certainly doesn’t look low end, with its nice black finish and fairly stylish satellite design. So why is it available for under £100? We honestly have no clue—most likely from skimping out on features. However, the center speaker does feature a clip to hook onto your flat-panel LCD or plasma TV screen, which is pretty cool.

Other than that, there’s talk of Logitech’s Frequency Directed Dual Driver technology and 70 watts of RMS power. What’s really important is the £50 price tag, which makes it a nice entry-level surround system for students or poor people. Yes, I said it! – Jason Chen

Press Release [Logitech via Digital Media Thoughts]

Pioneer stalls the decline of plasma display technology’s popularity for a while longer with its 60-inch PDP-5000EX plasma TV that the company says cranks out a 20,000:1 contrast ratio. Take a look at the photo above, and you can plainly see that the higher contrast ratio of the set on the left gives you a…

Pioneer’s three announced Elite PureVision plasma TVs not only have a redesigned glass and a First Surface PRO Color Filter, they have the Home Media Gallery home networking feature that we saw earlier. The 42-inch PRO-940HD, 50-inch PRO1140HD, and 60-inch PRO-1540HD all have improved brightness and, efficiency and contrast—as if they’d have worse brightness,…

Pioneer’s three announced Elite PureVision plasma TVs not only have a redesigned glass and a First Surface PRO Color Filter, they have the Home Media Gallery home networking feature that we saw earlier. The 42-inch PRO-940HD, 50-inch PRO1140HD, and 60-inch PRO-1540HD all have improved brightness and, efficiency and contrast—as if they’d have worse brightness,…

Pioneer’s three announced Elite PureVision plasma TVs not only have a redesigned glass and a First Surface PRO Color Filter, they have the Home Media Gallery home networking feature that we saw earlier. The 42-inch PRO-940HD, 50-inch PRO1140HD, and 60-inch PRO-1540HD all have improved brightness and, efficiency and contrast—as if they’d have worse brightness,…

Pioneer’s three announced Elite PureVision plasma TVs not only have a redesigned glass and a First Surface PRO Color Filter, they have the Home Media Gallery home networking feature that we saw earlier. The 42-inch PRO-940HD, 50-inch PRO1140HD, and 60-inch PRO-1540HD all have improved brightness and, efficiency and contrast—as if they’d have worse brightness,…

SEOUL (Reuters) - Global sales of plasma televisions surged 95 percent in the April-June quarter from a year earlier to 2.2 million units, bolstered by robust sales at Japan’s Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., U.S. research firm DisplaySearch said.

SEOUL (Reuters) - Global sales of plasma televisions surged 95 percent in the April-June quarter from a year earlier to 2.2 million units, bolstered by robust sales at Japan’s Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. 6752.T, U.S. research firm DisplaySearch said.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Diamonds are no longer a girl’s best friend, according to a new U.S. study that found three of four women would prefer a new plasma TV to a diamond necklace.