It’s back: An amazing price on one of our very favorite TVs of 2018. The TCL 6 series Roku TV — CNET’s Editors’ Choice as the TV with the best picture quality for the money, period — is back on sale at Walmart, Amazon and Best Buy. Best Buy has the lowest prices, charging $550 for …
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In the last few years LG’s OLED TVs have taken the picture quality crown, and I don’t expect that to change in 2019. And the pricing isn’t changing either. The initial prices and shipping dates of LG’s newest OLED TVs are largely the same as last year: Not cheap. The most-affordable so far, the 55-inch C9, starts at $2,500, the …
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The wild world of live TV streaming just went through another disruption. Blame the final season of Game of Thrones starting next month. DirecTV Now, which lets you watch numerous TV channels live over the Internet without a cable TV subscription, just raised the price of its cheapest package from $40 to $50 per month. That package includes HBO, the …
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If you have both an Amazon Echo and a Roku in the house, get ready to start talking to the TV. The new Roku skill, available now, lets Alexa speakers such as the Echo, Echo Dot, Echo Show and others accept your voice commands to control Roku streamers and TVs. You can now use Alexa to: Launch Apps (“Alexa, open …
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Good things come to those who wait. LG’s 2018 OLED TVs, with the best picture quality CNET has ever tested, have hit new all-time lows from multiple retailers. Pricing is substantially lower than the company’s Super Bowl sale, which was significantly lower than the Black Friday price. In fact the prices below, from Best Buy, mark the lowest I’ve seen …
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The Oscars are over, and blockbuster Black Panther didn’t win best picture. That honor went to Green Book. Green Book stars Viggo Mortensen as an Italian-American bouncer, Tony Lipp, who becomes the chauffeur to an African-American pianist on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South in 1962. The pianist, Dr. Don Shirley, is played by Mahershala Ali, best known …
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The Samsung Galaxy S10 has an in-screen fingerprint reader, wireless charging of other devices, three cameras and an actual headphone jack. But its biggest feature is something its owners will be staring into every day: the screen. Samsung’s engineers didn’t neglect the new phone’s display. All four varieties — the Galaxy S10, Galaxy S10 Plus, Galaxy S10E and Galaxy S10 5G …
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You’re forgiven for the feeling of deja vu. We’ve been here before. The TCL 6 series Roku TV, our Editors’ Choice as the TV with the best picture quality for the money, period, is back on sale. Best Buy has the lowest prices, charging $550 for the 55-inch model (a savings of $50) and $800 for the 65-inch version (a …
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The last big TV sale event of the season, the Super Bowl, is now behind us, and ahead lie a bunch of brand-new 2019 models to tempt shoppers. Late winter and early spring are when most of the new TVs hit store shelves and online, and some are even available now. If you want a new TV now, perhaps one …
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If you’re looking for the best home theater experience, you’ve probably considered Dolby Atmos audio, the most cutting-edge “object-based” surround sound format available. If you decide you want it, your biggest investment will be the extra money for an Atmos-capable sound bar or an AV receiver with a full complement of surround speakers. But even then you’re only halfway there. You also …
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