David Katzmaier

Super Bowl 2019: These are the TVs we’d watch it on

Super Bowl 53 between the New England Patriots and Los Angeles Rams is just a few days away. Is your TV ready for Sunday, Feb. 3? This year’s game will be available to watch more places than ever: You can watch it on CBS (CNET’s parent company), stream it for free at CBSSports.com or stream it with a …

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Your Super Bowl party deserves one of these 70

The stage is set for Super Bowl 53. The New England Patriots will meet the Los Angeles Rams in Atlanta on Sunday, Feb. 3. And this year you can watch it more places than ever: On CBS (CNET’s parent company) or streamed for free via CBSSports.com, or with a subscription via CBS All Access or the NFL app (for starters). Of course, …

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YouTube TV comes to 95 more US markets in time for the Super Bowl

This year there’s more ways to stream the Super Bowl live over the Internet than ever. And if you live in Bangor or Reno or Wilmington, you can now add one more to the list. Starting today, YouTube TV is available in 95 additional TV markets, including those three, and will roll out nationwide soon. Until now the $40-per-month service, which …

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Hulu drops base price from $8 to $6 per month

The price of streaming TV is changing all the time, and Hulu’s latest price adjustments are bringing the price up… and also down. It all depends on which flavor of Hulu you want to subscribe to. The cheapest Hulu plan, with ads, is going down by $2 per month, from $8 to $6 The ad-free Hulu plan price remains the …

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LG drops price on OLED TVs in time for the Super Bowl, starting at $1,500

Waiting for LG to put its industry-leading OLED TVs on sale has become an annual tradition, and the wait is finally over.  After failing to get a steep discount for Black Friday 2018, LG’s B8 series of OLED TVs is finally on sale for the Super Bowl 2019. They’re not cheap by any means, but they’re less expensive than any …

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Amazon Fire TV Stick gets Alexa TV control remote, still costs $40

Amazon is aiming to unseat Roku as the most popular streamer, and by one count at least it has already succeeded. And now its cheapest, most popular Fire TV device is getting a major feature bump for 2019. The updated version of the $40 (£40) Amazon Fire TV Stick goes on sale today, and the main difference between it and …

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CES 2019 TV roundup: Huge 8K screens and insane roll

This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. CES is a show first and foremost, meaning it’s not necessarily the best place to get a real sense of the actual televisions people are going to buy this year. Instead, it’s the place where manufacturers try to outdo each other …

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Samsung expands 8K TV to 98 inches at CES, because why the hell not

8K resolution might be so much overkill, but if you ask the TV makers, they’ll tell you all those extra pixels are worthwhile in really big TVs. The 98-inch Samsung Q900 QLED unveiled here at CES is one of the most massive 8K TVs announced so far, tying Sony’s own 98-inch Z9G and outgunning Samsung’s own 85-inch member of the Q900 …

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Everything TCL just announced at CES 2019

TCL might not have the household cachet of a Samsung or Sony, but the No. 1 TV maker in domestic China is aiming to change that by continuing its strong push into the US market. Its sales of TVs in North America have grown a very healthy 60 percent each of the last two years, and in 2018 it moved …

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LG’s rollable OLED TV is incredible, and it’s actually going on sale in 2019

When I saw the prototype version of LG’s roll-up TV last year at CES 2018, I was blown away. The engineers at LG Display had figured out a way for the flexible OLED screen material to roll into a compact tube, just like a window shade or a poster, to disappear from view inside an ugly white box. Now LG says it …

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