Looking for an excuse to finally buy that big-screen TV you’ve been coveting? A certain upcoming football game is the perfect justification. And now is the perfect time. Prices on many sets are at their lowest levels yet as manufacturers and retailers tackle 2016 inventory in advance of incoming 2017 models. If you want a …

T-Mobile is piling abuse on AT&T-owned DirecTV Now in the form of free Hulu. In addition giving customers who switched from rival AT&T a free year of DirecTV Now, as the carrier offered up last month, it’s also giving them a free year of Hulu. Citing widespread reports of DirecTV Now’s unreliability and customer complaints, T-Mobile characterizes Hulu as an …

Every year Google removes a lot of ads that violate its policies, but 2016 was the worst year yet. The search giant, which earns billions as the web’s largest purveyor of digital advertising, said it removed 1.7 billion so-called Bad Ads in 2016, up from 780 million in 2015. The offending ads range from payday loan ads, which Google banned …

We love OLED TVs, and we’re betting you do too. We’re also betting that you haven’t bought one yet. OLED is getting less expensive, but it’s a slow process. Right now the 65-inch LG OLED65B6P costs $3,000 and the 55-inch OLED55B5P costs $2,000. If you can afford one, go for it. But those are at least twice as much as …

Now playing: Watch this: 3D TV might finally be dead 1:30 It’s been a walking corpse for the last couple of years, and now 3D TV finally looks dead. LG and Sony, the last two major TV makers to support the 3D feature in their TVs, will stop doing so in 2017. None of their sets, not even high-end models …

Most of the new TVs I saw last week at CES are actually coming to market in 2017, but some of the coolest won’t be available for sale. Unless you’re an airport, a fast-food restaurant or a jewelry store with a penchant for flashy signage. The epicenter of display coolness was the white-walled, private booth of LG Display. There I …

Attention cable cord cutters: Hulu is about to get live. Sometime later this year the subscription TV service, which currently offers a big catalog of on-demand TV shows from major networks, will roll out live TV, too. The live version of Hulu will cost less than $40 per month for live channels from ABC/Disney, CBS and Fox as well as …

LG’s “wallpaper” W7 was the coolest TV that debuted at CES 2017 in my book. Its millimeter-thick screen hugs your wall like another coat of paint and should deliver image quality as good as any of the company’s other world-beating OLED TVs. Unfortunately if you want it to look as seamless as wallpaper, you’ll need a professional to install it. …

Now playing: Watch this: The coolest TV tech of CES 2017 17:51 For the last week I’ve been staring into the future of TVs, and it’s hella bright. CES 2017 is over, and now we know all about the year’s newest, biggest sets. I saw many, many inches of screen real estate, all of it in 4K resolution and most …

Now playing: Watch this: Amazon Alexa and Fire TV getting baked into new 4K TVs 1:08 Smart TVs have been around for years, but many people still stream their Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and other videos using an external device like a Roku, Apple TV or Amazon Fire TV. Those devices offer more apps, more frequent updates and a better streaming …