Sarah Tew/CNET 3D TV is a chicken without an egg. Many LED LCD and plasma TVs today offer a 3D feature and ship with 3D glasses, but most people never use the feature and never don the glasses. Or they try it once or twice and then leave the glasses to gather dust. The missing …

The onslaught of Ultra High Definition televisions continues today with Samsung’s announcement of slightly more affordable, smaller-screen versions of its original 4K, $40K, 85-inch behemoth. The 55-inch UN55F9000 and 65-inch UN65F9000 will be available for preorder by U.S. customers starting July 21, shipping in early August. They’ll cost $5,499 and $7,499 respectively. That’s about $500 more than Sony’s 4K X900 …

HDBaseT can squeeze all a bunch of different signals, including 4K video, onto one cheap Cat 5 cable. David Katzmaier/CNET All HDMI cables are the same, but that now-ubiquitous connector has limitations. Ultralong runs can be problematic and expensive and HDMI cable can’t conveniently be run through walls. Related stories Best Soundbars for 2022 ‘The Rings of Power’ Is on …

Now playing: Watch this: Samsung’s KN55F9500 OLED TV promises vivid picture quality 1:24 Samsung said the OLED-based KN55F9500 55-inch would be available this year, and it’s making good on the promise. A report by Korea’s Yonhap News Agency says the television will arrive in Korea next week. A report at HD Guru says the news agency quoted a price of …

If you look at CNET’s lists of best TVs this year, or any recent year, chances are good there’s a plasma TV made by Panasonic at the top. That’s because they consistently offer excellent picture quality for the price. Sure, Samsung’s plasmas also do very well, and for that matter we’ve lauded a number of LED LCD TVs by Vizio, …

The two hottest flagship Android smartphones right now, the HTC One and the Samsung Galaxy S4, both earned CNET’s Editors’ Choice Awards for their stellar designs, massive feature sets, and overall appeal. So which one has the better screen? In the tradition of our original screens tests last year, we set out to answer that very question. We used a …

You just got a new TV, and the picture looks great. Then, when you pop in your favorite shooter, you notice your kills going down, your aim a step slow, and your sterling record taking hits like a noob wandering through the kill zone. Do you all of a sudden suck at COD? Maybe. But perhaps your newfound lack of …

Google TV, the ambitious living room operating system often maligned as slow to update, difficult to use, and less focused than alternatives like Roku or standard Smart TV suites, will finally get a major operating system upgrade later this year. LG announced today at Google I/O that its Google TVs will get the update to Android version 4.2.2, aka Jelly …

Today TCL announced three new LED TVs, including a 50-inch, a 58-inch, and a monster 110-inch 4K TV dubbed “The China Star.” The Star will appear in the upcoming movie “Iron Man 3,” and makes its appearance in a trailer for the film around the 2-second mark, happily ensconced in Tony Stark’s living room. In addition to its size and …

This 65-inch plasma is the most power-hungry TV we’ve ever tested. It uses $6.77 per month in electricity. Sarah Tew/CNET Since 2011 the FTC has required that every TV display a yellow and black Energy Guide label estimating how much it costs to run for a year. The label assumes a price for electricity (11 cents/kWh) and a baseline usage …