I've been invited to check out lots of new 3D TVs by the companies that make them. Sony, Samsung, LG, Sharp...the list goes on - they all have great TV sets out there.

Each company's top-of-the-line device is packed with as many features as a real estate agent lists off on a home description.

From web connectivity to adaptive contrast, from simulated surround sound to a gazillion HDMI ports...to 3D video - they're all stacked.

Once I saw soccer on a Sony TV in 3D, and I thought: 'Man, I need to buy one of these for my home. It looks like Messi is in my living room.'

But I didn't shell out the few thousand dollars. Because other than during the World Cup, and other than with that particular game shot in 3D, there wasn't really anything else to watch in 3D other than the odd Hollywood blockbuster.

So it wasn't really surprise when ESPN announced this week that it will stop broadcasting in 3D.

Fancy being famous for 30 minutes? Well, if you play online space game Eve Online, now's your chance. The Icelandic company that bought us the Eve massively multiplayer game is about to make a TV series based on things that have happened to players in the make-believe intergalactic world.

Apparently the zombie apocalypse is actually here - at least, according to one Montana TV network that displayed an emergency warning this week.

Could Microsoft finally be getting it right? The company has been against the ropes for some time in consumer-focused areas such as music and mobile, but the stars seem to be aligning this fall. Blogs and news services are alight this week with the discussion of Windows 8, which is already shipping in some parts of the world. I'm more interested in what's happening in the living room – and of course, the two are related.

This is one for your browser bookmarks. The Internet Archive - which was already way cool - just got cooler, with the introduction of a searchable TV news broadcast service. 

For years we’ve heard how the Internet is going to revolutionize TV, and we’ll be able to watch web content straight on our TV without any fuss.

That,for the most part, has been false. Getting the Internet to look and work well on a gigantic screen has been a challenge, one that perhaps Apple hasn’t yet mastered.

So it was with cautious optimism that I fired up Sony’s new Internet player powered by Google TV, technically known as the NSZ-GS7.

The CRTC has just agreed rules that will give Canadian TV viewers more freedom to choose the channels they want to pay for - but will it be enough to stop people migrating away from TV to Internet-based viewing?

We’re finally getting Google TV here in Canada with the arrival of the Sony Internet Player later this summer.

The iPad 3 might be launching this week, but a new report suggests Apple will launch a TV service by Christmas.

Well, it's that time of year again. CES is upon us, and down in Vegas, the great and the good of the consumer electronics biz are showcasing this year's product. However, this is a bittersweet year for CES, because it loses one of its biggest supporters: Microsoft. The software giant has announced that this will be the last year it attends CES as a keynote speaker.