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• NHK's latest 8K display is large, thin and beautiful

  Japanese public broadcaster NHK has developed a prototype 8K screen that's large, thin and shows an amazing picture.

• Japan starts 8K TV broadcasts in time for Rio Olympics

  Japan began the world's first regular 8K television broadcasts on Monday, five days ahead of the opening of the Olympic Games.

• Tweets About TV Programs Prove Twitter's Earned Media Value

  New industry research, commissioned by Twitter, Fox and the Advertising Research Foundation, reports that social activity around television is still mostly a live event as 72 percent of users who tweet about TV do so while watching a live broadcast.

• In Pictures: Curviest new tech devices

  Shape of things to come: Phones, TVs and more are starting to throw us curves

• Telstra switches on Foxtel for T-Box

  Delivering on an announcement earlier this year, Telstra T-Box owners will be able to subscribe to Foxtel pay TV from the end of the month without the need for a separate device.

• Prime to digitise media archives

  Television and radio broadcaster Prime Media has embarked on a digitisation project for its content over the next seven years.

• Comcast to debut social networking site for TV viewers

  In about two weeks, US cable company Comcast will debut a beta of a social networking service that allows participants to let the world know what they are watching on TV and the Internet.

• Intel aims wireless display technology at handhelds

  Intel will bring its wireless display technology to mobile devices like smartphones and tablets, company executives said this week.

• Surround Vision hopes to change TV viewing experience

  Santiago Alfaro hopes to one day use the Surround Vision technology he created at the MIT Media Lab and work with famous director James Cameron to incorporate it into a film.

• Toshiba laptop debuts Intel's WiDi tech

  The little-known but potentially important Intel Windows Display (WiDi) wireless technology has turned up in the latest Toshiba laptop, the Satellite A660.

• Ncomputing's chip brings Windows applications to TVs

  Ncomputing on Friday announced a chip that could turn devices like TVs or set-top boxes into virtual desktops through which users can run Windows applications or access the Internet.

• Samsung finding new ways to push 3D to users

  Samsung on Tuesday introduced new 3D home entertainment devices and said it is researching new 3D technologies while finding new ways to deliver 3D movies to TVs.

• Innocomm shows Android smartphone with analog TV

  Innocomm Technology, a young smartphone developer, plans to launch its first handset with Google's Android mobile operating system and an analog TV receiver in the middle of this year, a company representative said Tuesday.

• Austar swings back to full-year profit

  The rural digital television company has declared its intention to participate in the NBN program

• Sky Network predicts NZ$88m profit for FY10

  But the company warned it is a dire time for the NZ television advertising market