DirecTV, which has partnered on and off with TiVo for more than a decade, is hoping that this time the relationship will stick, with an expansion of a recent 10-market trial that offered its customers the option of a TiVo HD DVR that integrates with the DirecTV service.

Verizon and Coinstar, the owner of Redbox, today announced a new video entertainment service that combines new release DVD and Blu-ray rentals with television and movie streaming and downloads.

Just days before Super Bowl XLVI, the federal government has shut down 16 websites authorities say have been illegally streaming live sports games and pay-per-view events online, including NFL, NBA, and NHL events among others.

Tomorrow at 12:30 Eastern time, join three of CR's television experts as they talk all about TVS, just in time for the Super Bowl broadcast on February 5.

The National Advertising Division of the Better Business Bureau has recommended that LG Electronics halt advertising claims made for its 3D television and glasses in comparison to 3D offerings from Samsung and Sony.

If you're getting ready to watch the Big Game this weekend, it's likely you've spent more time thinking about the food you'll serve than whether or not you're getting the best out of your television. Fortunately, you don't have to be a TV guru to get your set running like a champ in time for the game.

With Super Bowl XLVI now just days away, you might be looking for a new big-screen TV that can do the game justice. But getting the right TV isn't as simple as just finding the right price. That's because sporting events like the Super Bowl can really bring out the best—and worst—in an HDTV by pushing it to its performance limits, revealing flaws that might go unnoticed with less-demanding types of content.

Energy Star, the consumer product labeling program started in 1992 by the Environmental Protection Agency, has done much to raise awareness of energy efficiency in the U.S. But with some products, a kind of Lake Wobegon effect has set in over the years as the vast majority of models in a category have come to qualify for the above average distinction. Enter the Energy Star program's Most Efficient label, which launched in pilot phase last year and is expanding to eight product categories in 2012.

Good news for Netflix subscribers who may have come to rely on the service's video offerings: The company is not about to shrivel up and die. Despite competition and a rocky end to 2011, Netflix added more than 600,000 new subscribers in the fourth quarter, according to news reports.

Now that we know that Super Bowl XLVI is going to feature the New England Patriots against the New York Giants in Indianapolis, you may be thinking that the next best thing to being there is watching it on a brand-new big-screen HDTV.

If you're not headed to Super Bowl XLVI on February 5, then the next best thing is watching it on a big-screen HDTV. If you're in the market for a new set, you'll need to make sure it can deliver all the excitement of the Big Game itself.

For those of us who cover TVs, there was a lot to look at during CES this year—certainly more than we imagined just a month before the show opened. Not surprisingly, we saw some prototype TVs that wowed us. But the bigger news was that most of these TVs are actually expected to available by the end of the year.

Element, a value-priced TV brand you may have noticed during promotional selling times such as Black Friday, is doing something few other TV manufacturers would dare: It's going to start making its televisions in the U.S.

Who knew that 2012 would shape up to be such a potentially interesting year for televisions? But if companies are able to live up to their CES promises, later in the year we’ll be seeing the first real TV-sized OLED TVs, plus a few big-screen 3D TVs with 4K technology. In the nearer term there will be a dramatic expansion in the number of sets that include Smart TV technology that can bring an ever-growing array of new content into our living rooms.

One of the most talked about innovations at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show is a display technology called 4K, which essentially quadruples an HDTV's picture resolution—at a hefty $25,000 price tag.