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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sony Corp. (6758.T: Quote, NEWS , Research) said on Monday U.S. sales of electronics have been better than expected so far this holiday shopping season, fueled by demand for flat panel televisions and digital cameras.

Lounge room nerdvana is one step closer now that DVD/hard drive recorders are finally coming with built-in digital tuners, but we're still a long way from my dream device.

Samsung is going TV crazy and adding terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting (T-DMB) receivers to a wide range of its products. The latest product to appear in South Korea with a TV capability is the Q1, Samsung's ultra-mobile PC (UMPC).

Industry comment There's a secret many people in the IPTV/VoD industry don't want you to know. Setting up an IPTV network is actually incredibly easy. In fact, almost anyone can do it. But if you knew that, you'd build your own and no one would make any money by selling you proprietary products with huge mark-ups.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's NTT DoCoMo Inc., Fuji Television Network Inc., Nippon Broadcasting System Inc. and other firms will team up to develop new broadcast services for cellphones, the companies said on Wednesday.

Following on from yesterday's rant, it's easy to find disc or hard drive-based recorders that will do the job of a VCR, but the point of these new digital recorders is they have the potential to do so much more.

Is it time to throw away your VCR? A friend posed this question to me the other day and it's probably one other people are starting to ask. Most people are unlikely to through away a perfectly good device if it still works (with the exception of mobile phones) so I guess the question is; is it worth replacing your VCR when your current one gives up the ghost?

My quest for home entertainment Nerdvana reached a major milestone yesterday when two of the most exciting new recorders landed on my doorstep.