Enlarge Image Photo by Geoffrey Morrison, content by Technicolor Today’s high-definition TV and video can look great, but there’s always room for improvement. New, higher-fidelity image schemes are beginning to gain traction these days, including 4K, wide color gamut, and high dynamic range. The idea behind all of these methods is to allow video shown …

Hollywood studios live in mortal fear of piracy, and nowhere is that fear more evident than when a customer tries to copy a movie bought, legally, to watch on another screen. If I buy a $20 Blu-ray disc, I want to be able to watch that movie on my phone, or back it up to a hard drive so I …

Courtesy of name.vukki.com When 3D TVs hit the market a few years ago, TV companies predictably said, “3D IS AMAZING, YOU WANT THIS.” We, as TV reviewers, said something between: “Gimmick!” and “It works pretty well, but look at that crosstalk.” Consumers, almost universally, said, “Wait, I still need glasses? Pass.” Most people we know with 3D TVs used the …

Technicolor Dolby has gotten the most press when it comes to high dynamic range ( HDR), widely seen as the next generation of home video content after 4K. The company has been been making a big push for several years with its Dolby Vision HDR format, but it’s not the only one in the game. Technicolor, a company known best …

In this slightly exaggerated image, you can see the full image on the left, and the overscanned image on the right. Geoffrey Morrison/CNET Your TV is probably trimming the edges of your TV shows and movies. Worse, this trimming means it has to zoom in on the image, potentially decreasing picture quality. It’s an easy thing to fix, and there …

Panasonic/Microsoft Whether it’s ogling at your digital photos in incredible detail, taking in entire spreadsheets at a glance, or partaking in some high-resolution fragging, using an Ultra HD 4K TV as a computer monitor has its benefits. There are a few things to keep in mind, however, including your PC’s capabilities, scaling and magnification — text in native 4K is …

The HMS Belfast served her country for 24 years, and that service reads as a What’s What list of 20th century naval battles. It fired on Normandy before the D-Day invasion, it helped sink the German battleship Scharnhorst, and served in the Korean War and beyond. Decommissioned in 1963, she was converted to a museum ship and moored across from …

In this Christie laser setup, the lasers are separate from the projector. The laser light gets sent over optical cabling. Christie Projectors are starting to use lasers to generate light. What was once the realm of science fiction, or at least the nemesis of cats and Professor Hathaway, is now being used to create some of the best big-screen images …

Sarah Tew/CNET There are few things that come in as wide a variety of prices as cables and interconnects. HDMI cables, for instance, can run from $1 to over $1,000 for the same length. USB cables can be similarly cheap or high-end. Speaker cable is even more extreme, from pennies per foot, to hundreds of dollars for the same 12 …

If you listen to the marketing from TV manufacturers, it seems TVs with 4K resolution will deliver a massive boost in picture quality. And, if you’re lucky enough to actually have a source of real 4K video — one with the same 3,840×2,160-pixel resolution as 4K TVs — you may well be able to see additional detail. (4K TVs — …