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 …
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If you just got a new TV, chances are good it’s a high-resolution 4K model. But the electronics industry, ever eager to get you to upgrade yet again, has laid important groundwork for televisions that quadruple the pixels of 4K. The HDMI Forum, a group of electronics companies that includes everyone from LG and Sony to Google and Netflix, has …
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The show floor at CES 2017 doesn’t open until Thursday, but Wednesday is arguably the biggest news day of the show. As the second of two Chinese manufacturers announcing today, Hisense’s press conference is scheduled for 12 p.m. PT/3 p.m. ET. While the company is yet to reveal details of its 2017 line you can expect technologies such as HDR, …
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Now playing: Watch this: Incredible LG OLED TV hangs totally flush against the… 1:36 LG wants to make the products in your home smarter than you. The Korean company, known for making an array of products like televisions, phones and washing machines, kicked off its CES 2017 press conference with a discussion of its DeepThinQ artificial intelligence platform. It went …
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Nvidia wants to make your home smarter, and it’s doing it with the help of Google. CEO Jen-Hsun Huang on Wednesday introduced new devices that tap into the Google Assistant, the virtual software that lets you do things like control your lights or search for a TV show by speaking the commands out loud. The new products include the updated …
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Based on the massive billboards wrapping around the Las Vegas Convention Centre, you’d be forgiven for thinking that CES is all about a couple of big brands. But Chinese company TCL is starting to edge in on these well-known rivals, taking to the stage at CES in a bid to show why it’s good enough to play with the big …
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For a week in early January, televisions run Vegas. Sure there’s other stuff announced at the massive Consumer Electronics Show there: audio/video gear, phones, tablets, computers, streaming media devices, car tech, drones, action cameras, wearables, appliances and a whole pavilion worth of accessories. But TVs always seem to draw a big chunk of the buzz, and dominate the booths of …
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Black Friday is synonymous with doorbusters at big-box department stores and, more recently, with waiting for Amazon’s next deal to appear. Now, individual manufacturers are getting in on the act too. Unlike arch-rival Apple, which teased its sale but didn’t mention any specific deals yet, Samsung has a full website already packed with discounts on its vast array of electronics. …
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Sure there are plenty of crazy doorbuster prices on TVs this Black Friday, but they’re typically bargain-basement models we can’t vouch for. If you’re actually looking for a well-reviewed TV, however, many of those are on sale too. The Vizio M series is a great example. It’s our highest-rated TV of the year when you consider the price-to-picture ratio, earning …
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If you’re happy with your TV, keep it. But if your TV is getting old and you’re curious how much better modern TVs are, this guide should be able to help you out. What we’ve done is break it down by type and age of the TV, and given a recommendation about whether you should consider upgrading. Should you upgrade …
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