Samsung sure knows how to design and market a product. The Freestyle portable projector, announced at CES 2022, made quite the splash. It’s small! It makes a huge image! Your friends will love it! Beyond the design, however, the Freestyle is hardly unique. Plenty of other portable projectors I’ve reviewed have built-in speakers and streaming, …

The Epson Home Cinema LS11000 is a higher-end 4K projector powered by lasers rather than the traditional lamps used by most of its competitors. A lamp happens to power Epson’s own Home Cinema 5050 too, a projector we loved and which stays in the company’s lineup. The LS11000 costs $1,000 more and promises a significant leap forward, with more pixels on screen …

The AAXA P6X is a pint-size portable projector that’s remarkably bright, has a huge battery and costs less than a phone. I wasn’t familiar with AAXA projectors before this review, but the specs looked so good on paper I just had to test it out. After all, 1,100 lumens for $360 just doesn’t seem possible, especially from something that can fit …

The laser revolution in projection continues with Epson introducing two new high-end home theater projectors, the Home Cinema LS12000 and Home Cinema LS11000. They promise high brightness and punchy contrast, as well as a variety of other upgrades over one of our favorite 4K projectors, Epson’s Home Cinema 5050. I’m most interested in the LS11000 since its $4,000 price tag is …

Believe it or not, 8K TVs are available right now. Yep, 8K, as in four times the resolution of Ultra HD 4K TVs. You can, if you really want to, buy models from Samsung, Sony, LG and TCL in a variety of sizes. As you’d expect from cutting-edge technology with over 30 million pixels, the prices are quite high. In most …

Want to watch some old family movies on VCR? Having a craving for some GoldenEye on N64? Maybe you found some LaserDiscs at a yard sale — they may look like huge CDs, but they’re analog! Then you notice that your shiny new TV doesn’t have the right inputs.  Many modern TVs have, at best, one analog input. Often they …

At first glance, the Optoma UHZ50 looks like any other compact DLP projector. Inside, though, is a different story. Instead of the UHP lamps typical of most home theater projectors, the UHZ50 uses a laser to generate light. The result is a bright, colorful image from a relatively small, quiet box. And unlike traditional UHP lamp-based projectors, it’s fast to …

4K, 8K, 1080p, HD and UHD. If you’re shopping for a new TV, you’ve likely noticed these letter-number combos listed beside the word “resolution.” But what’s the difference between these resolution types? Is it worth paying more for an 8K TV versus a 4K TV? Does resolution even matter that much? Resolution may not be the most important factor when buying …

Nearly all modern televisions are compatible with high dynamic range video. While that doesn’t mean they all perform the same, many HDR TVs are brighter than their older, non-HDR counterparts and innovations like mini-LED make them even brighter. Some of the brightest TVs we’ve reviewed are also some of the best TVs. Although brighter doesn’t necessarily mean better, it can …

There are few things more infuriating than bringing a new soundbar home, getting it all set up… and then have it not work. It’s possibly even more infuriating to have it work sometimes, and not others. A common complaint is something like, “I’ve connected my soundbar correctly, and when I play Bluetooth from my phone I get sound, but not …