Best of CES Guide

Panasonic's Viera 37-inch 3D LED TV

The hi-tech mecca that is the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas has just wrapped for another year.

Here’s a guide to some of the best coverage of new HDTV gear:

Sound+Vision reported on “smart stuff from Samsung” that ranged from now Internet innovations to a fresh design that minimises the frame of a plasma to such an extent that it increases the display area by another inch.

It also has coverage of Sony’s press bash, which included a prototype 3D headset that the Sydney Morning Herald dubbed one of the top 10 products of CES.

High-Def Digest has a series of excellent “Booth Tour” reports on Samsung, LG, Toshiba and Sony – as well as press conference coverage of Panasonic (and Samsung and Sony).

The site also covers Samsung’s roundtable and a Blu-ray director’s panel.

As for reports that the likes of LG will make clunky 3D glasses as much a relic as black-and-white TV, Consumer Reports has a different take on the technology.

The same is true of The Hollywood Reporter TV critic Tim Goodman’s blog on why making TV technology “smarter” could dumb-down the medium.