Is SUHD really better than UHD, or is that “S” full of it? Is HDR better than 4K? What’s the difference between 4K, HDR, OLED, UHD, SUHD, UHDBD, and all the other letter jumbles? Good questions. The TV world is filled with impenetrable jargon, and TVs can get expensive, so it’s certainly worth taking a …
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High dynamic range (HDR) is quite the buzzword. There’s been an explosion of “4K HDR” TV sets to choose from, along with HDR TV shows and movies from Netflix, Amazon and others. Meanwhile there’s “another” HDR with which most people are much more familiar. It’s a photography process that’s been around for years, in particular on phone cameras. And now …
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About 30 minutes outside of Birmingham, England, sits the Royal Air Force Museum Cosford. Spread across four main hangers and several buildings, it houses a fascinating collection of aircraft from both World Wars, the Cold War, and the modern era. Some are even too big to house inside, like the massive Lockheed C-130 Hercules military transport, and a Hawker Siddeley …
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HDR, or High Dynamic Range , is the latest buzzword in the TV world. It promises big improvements in picture quality over non-HDR TVs. “But what about my TV?,” you ask. It’s new enough, maybe as recent as last year. Is there a way, via a software update, to make a non-HDR TV into an HDR TV? Before we get …
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High Dynamic Range TVs and devices are here, along with HDR TV shows and movies. You can buy a new 4K HDR TV for as little as $450 and stream HDR Netflix and Amazon, or add a $300 Xbox and spin HDR 4K Blu-ray discs. HDR games are coming soon, and even phones and PC screens are attaching those three …
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It was the end of the era of sails. It was the beginning of the era of steam. The clipper ship Cutty Sark was one of the fastest of her kind, swiftly moving cargo from one side of the world to the other. But her days as the fastest ship on the seas was already numbered. After 85 years of …
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The karst rises from the flatland as if escaping the underworld, violently forced up by something down there. The truth is the opposite. The stark, imposing rocks are what’s left after millions of years of weathering take its toll on the surrounding land. Towers of stone form the base, literally and figuratively, for the magic of this place. Somehow, impossibly …
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Forget the questionable iris scanner and finger-twirling stylus. One of the most intriguing new features in Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 smartphone and Notebook 7 Spin laptop is HDR compatibility. High dynamic range video can look even better than conventional high-def and 4K video, with brighter highlights and more dynamic colors. Up until now, the feature was only found in a …
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The Tower of London. Even the name sounds cool. Founded in 1066, the castle has at times been a royal residence, a prison, a mint, an armory and more. Its imposing stone facades still watch over the River Thames, even though her days as a defensive fortress are long gone. The setting and inspiration for countless scenes, shows and movies, …
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Now playing: Watch this: Look inside this piece of Japanese naval history 1:17 An hour south of Tokyo, on the edge of the bay is a piece of history unique in the world. Embedded in concrete just a few feet from the water is the 114-year-old battleship Mikasa. It’s the only surviving pre-dreadnought battleship, not to mention one of the …
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