Since its inception, VESA’s (the Video Electronic Standards Association) DisplayHDR logo-certification program for monitors has been a clear-cut mix of competence requirements (DisplayHDR 600 and 1000) and marketing desperation (DisplayHDR 400). But with the CES 2019 announcement of DisplayHDR 500, DisplayHDR True Black 400 and DisplayHDR True Black 500, somehow they’ve managed to make things …
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Now that you’re seeing Black Friday ads for dirt-cheap televisions and hearing about the best prices yet on the best TVs, you might finally be tempted to upgrade that old set. After all, TVs have gotten really, really good. Performance we could have only dreamed about just a few years ago is now commonplace. Cheap TVs look good; high-end TVs …
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Update April 26: TCL has announced pricing and other details for the 6 series. Read CNET’s updated preview here for more information. Original story published Jan. 8 at 1 p.m. PT follows: Last year TCL’s P series was the best 55-inch TV for the money and its successor, the 2018 6 series, looks even better. It keeps everything that made …
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Sony, LG, Samsung and even TCL are now putting one of my favorite picture-enhancing technologies — full array local dimming — into their highest-end LCD TVs. But nobody does local dimming like Vizio. The US company’s onslaught of 2018 TVs, spread across five series and 19 models announced on Tuesday, includes a whopping 13 with full array local dimming (FALD). No …
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High dynamic range is the latest tech trend in the TV world, with its brighter highlights and lavish colors. It produces a more dramatic improvement in image quality than 4K resolution, especially on a high-end TV. But if you consider TVs too small and prefer the huge images produced by projectors, I have some bad news. A bunch of new …
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Samsung wants you to forget about OLED and go for the Q instead. The company on Wednesday took the wraps off its 2018 lineup of higher-end QLED TVs, providing more details on new features and specific models that were absent from its CES announcements in January. The biggest news for video quality fans is the confirmation that the two highest-end …
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If you’re waiting for the one of the most highly anticipated TVs that debuted at CES to become available for sale, I’ve got some good news. Sony’s XBR-X900F series, successor to the X900E I liked so much last year, should arrive later this month. It’s the first major 2018 TV to get pricing and availability details, and I expect it …
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Looking for an excuse to finally buy that big-screen TV you’ve been coveting? Look no further than a certain upcoming football game, whose stringent trademark restrictions prevent me from naming directly. Want another arrow in your new-TV-rationalization quiver? Prices on many sets are at their lowest levels yet as manufacturers and retailers tackle 2017 inventory in advance of 2018 models. …
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When I first heard about LG Display’s 65-inch rollable OLED TV, I pictured something you’d take home from the poster store: a long tube you could tote around and unfurl wherever you wanted to enjoy big-screen TV. The reality is less futuristic, and so much better. Yes, the TV really does roll up into a tube like paper. But in …
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If you’ve ever read the brand “Hisense,” it was probably on the side of an air conditioner or dehumidifier. But the Chinese company makes TVs, too, and it really wants your attention. And it’s using lasers to get it. At CES 2018 Hisense introduced a full lineup of televisions that run the high-tech gamut, including models with full-array local dimming, …
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