Westinghouse Unveils New LCD TVs at CES 2008

• January 7th, 2008 | HDTV

In case you haven’t been keeping your finger on the pulse of electronics, today is the first day of CES 2008 in Las Vegas and Westinghouse has loosed a stack of LCD TVs on us, as well as a bunch of other goodies. CES, by the way, is the Consumer Electronics Show which you can check out for yourself here: www.cesweb.org. In short, it’s a massive convention where all the hip electronics companies show off their wares for the new year. For the gadget-minded, it’s Christmas all over again just a few weeks later. For theTVNinja, it means a LOT of new TVs.

Cast your mind back to one of the original Television makers in America–Westinghouse. Originally founded in 1886, they were the first company to use AC current (that stuff coming out of your wall outlet). Nowadays, they make light bulbs, various home appliances and some various other consumer electronics involving screens (like TVs). This year at CES, in just the first day, they’ve announced a short stack of huge LCD TVs, medium (”portable”) sized LCD TVs as well as smaller LCDs in the form of LCD picture frames.

Sadly, limited pictures are available so far, but check out the specs on their largest (as reported by Engadget), it’s a 52 inch mammoth called the TX-52F480S LCD HDTV. The TX-52F480S brings you a whopping 4 HDMI inputs and 1080p along with a few more bells and whistles. Pretty impressive, even at the price of $2500. Meanwhile, the smallest LCD TV announced by Westinghouse this morning, pricing in at around $330, is their 16 inch PT-16H610S, which is part of their new “PT” or portable line. Since we don’t know what these babies look like we’ll just have to take their word for the “portable” part. However, they are being described as being “light weight” and having a “super thin profile.”

(Pictured: Westinghouse TX-52F480S)