Samsung’s “Needle Slim,” a 3.9mm thin 40” Full HD LED Backlight TV, featureing a 120Hz LCD panel and a 5000:1 contrast ratio is now the world’s thinnest LCD TV.

A panel used in TV sets is usually 2 millimeters in width before the backlight unit is added. There has been a technical issue in making it 3 millimeter slim. Samsung Electronics used its own ultra slim panel designing technology, newly developed major parts and renewed the design of the backlight unit. It decided to use an edge-type LED backlight while combining its manufacturing technologies for optical film and ultra-slim panels.

Samsung Electronics plans to unveil this ultra-slim panel at the FPD International 2009 scheduled to open on October 28 in Yokohama.

Sources [Akihabara News, Engadget]

So Netflix is coming to the PS3. However, it is going to require a disc until they have XMB embedded software solution expected some time next year. Joystiq had the opportunity to have an interview with a Netflix representative.  The service will be free starting in November.

READ: Press Release
READ: Joystiq’s Interview with Netflix
LINK: Reserve your disc (Must be logged into netflix)

Source [Joystiq, Coolest Gadgets]

ATI has introduced two new players to the GPU market.  Powered by the latest Radeon 5800 Series GPU: the Radeon 5850 and Radeon 5870.  Compared to the Radeon HD 4890, it has twice the number of stream processors, twice the transistors, twice the texture and pixel blending power and is worth twice as much. The 5870 is very competitive at a price of $379 and being as fast as the GeForce GTX 295 with 2 GPUs.

ATI Claims:

ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series graphics processors are the most technologically advanced and feature rich GPUs AMD has ever created.

Sources [Ubergizmo, Engadget, HardOCP, ]

Maximum PC witnessed XPlane 9 and Far Cry 2 running at full resolution on Eyefinity at 12-20 frames per second. HotHardware notes that an upcoming DX11 racing game, Dirt 2, was played at 7680 x 3200 with “perfectly acceptable frame rates” (although 12 fps is not what many would consider “acceptable”).

The feature is called Eyefinity and it allows multiple monitors to be used as a single display.  Currently, when multiple monitors are connected to a single PC, those monitors are seen as separate displays that can be configured as an extended desktop or mirroring.  With Eyefinity, the displays are arranged in 1 or more groups and the OS sees the groups as single displays.

No word yet on a release date, but Engadget reports that  Acer, Dell, HP, MSI and Toshiba already have Eyefinity notebooks in the works.

Read – AMD introduces a graphics chip that can power six computer displays at once
Read – AMD Eyefinity Multi-Display Technology In Action

Sources [Gizmodo, Engadget, Maximum PC, HotHardware]

FINALLY! Cable Labs allows DIY Builders to legally use CableCARD tuners to their full potential.  Engadget has revealed that Microsoft announced the change at MCE event at CEDIA.
Source [Engadget]

The new Logitech Harmony 700 remote packs some pretty awesome features for $150.  It’s has a color screen, rechargeable, and controls 6 devices. Also, like all Harmony remotes, itsupports over 5000 brands and 225,000+ devices.

Source: [Logitech]