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Tuner TV

New sets adjust the color themselves whenever the light changes

Tuner TV: Photo by LG
To give you a perfect picture no matter how your room is lit, new TVs automatically tweak their on-screen colors to complement say, the orange glow of incandescent lights in the evening or the bluish tint of midday sunshine. We sat with two new self-adjusting screens by day and night to see if we could notice the changes.

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The Little Picture

Polaroid goes digital with pocket-size PoGo photo printer

Photo printing just got faster and easier. Instead of waiting until you get home, you can use Polaroid’s pocket-sized PoGo to print on the spot. Using Zink’s "zero-ink" technology—paper that contains layers of heat-activated color dye crystals a few microns thick—PoGo eliminates the clunky ink cartridges of traditional printers. The device—weighing just eight ounces and measuring 4.7 by 2.8 by 0.9 inches—goes on sale July 6 for $150.

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Battle of the Internet Video Boxes: Netflix vs. Apple TV vs. Vudu

We pit the leading digital-delivery TV boxes and services from Netflix, Apple and Vudu against DVD and Blu-ray. Who will reign supreme?

Battle of the Video Boxes: We put the leading set-top video boxes to the test (L to R: Apple TV, Vudu, and Netflix's Roku) vs. Blu-ray. Who emerges victorious? Photo by Apple/Vudu/Roku

We live in interesting TV times. DVD players are as common as toasters. Basic Blu-ray players offer high-def flicks at prices we can (almost) afford. And now, if you can’t bother to go to the store or wait for a disc to arrive, you finally have some enticing download options.

The biggest news, of course, is the recent arrival of Roku's streaming Netflix Player, which is finally giving the company a service to match its name. The Netflix Player joins two other on-demand boxes: Vudu, which premiered last September, and Apple TV, which got upgraded to a movie-playing box in February. So, what’s the best way to go?

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Sharper Shooters

Nikon and Olympus reinvent autofocus so you can grab better action shots

Digital SLRs shoot as fast as machine guns, but all those pictures are useless if they come out blurry. Autofocus often fails in low light and with quick-moving subjects such as athletes or toddlers. We pitted two cameras that promise faster, more accurate autofocus technologies against both each other and top competitors from Canon.

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