LG debuts new HD LCDs for World Cup

Just in case you forgot, LG would like you to know that yes, you can watch that foot-centric brand of football on a brand new LG LCD display. They'd also like you to know that you'll have way more friends this June when the FIFA World Cup rolls around if you buy one of their new X-Canvas displays with 8ms response times, 5000:1 contrast ratios, and 250GB hard drives. Sadly, there's no word on resolution or model numbers, but we can only hope they'll keep up with the rest of the specs. The new displays come in 32 and 47-inch flavors, at $3340 and $4280 respectively. They seem to be Korea-only for now, but we're sure LG would love to help us USofA-ers get our "soccer" on as well.

JVC Victor includes 46–inch 1080p among three new HD LCDs

Nothing like a good bit of 1080p to get us going in the morning, and JVC delivers today with their new line of Victor LCDs. The 26-inch LT-26LC80 and the 37-inch LT-37LC85 both sport the more pedestrian 1366 x 768, with at least the 37LC85 pulling down some nice 8ms response times. That's about as technical as they get on the specs, but the LT-46LH800 has the one we want to hear: full 1920 x 1080 resolution. Otherwise victor seems mainly enamoured with the "Maxx Bass" output of the 46LH800, but we did manage to see dual HDMI ports on it, along with the usual connectivity offerings. The 46 and 37-inch displays should be available in May, with the 26-incher following in June.

Sharp's new 20–inch LC–20AX6 HDTV

Another day, another Sharp Aquos gets announced -- today it's the LC-20AX6, a simple livin' 20-inch LCD HDTV featuring a 1,366 x 768 panel with a brightness of 500cd/m2, 1,200:1 contrast ratio, 8ms pixel response, integrated digital and analog tuners, and VGA, composite, and S-Video ins, among others (sorry, no DVI / HDMI listed). No figure for a price tag on this thing (or if we'll see it in the States), but it sounds like a decent smallish mid-range set for broke city dwellers such as ourselves.