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 …
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Sky launched the Now TV streaming box in 2013 for £10. Six years later, it’s again releasing an inexpensive home entertainment gadget. On Thursday, the company unveiled the Now TV stick, a plug-and-play streaming device priced at £15. The announcement came alongside other news from Now TV, including the rollout of downloads, the option to stream in Full HD, and …
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Over 10 years ago, Roku was a major competitor to Sonos when it came to the whole-home music business, but it quickly pivoted to become the no. 1 video-streaming brand instead. Now, Roku wants back in to multiroom, and TCL is the first company that wants to help do it. The TCL Roku Smart Soundbar may be a mouthful of …
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Westinghouse wants its TVs in your house, and thinks Google’s Android TV — and budget pricing — will help it get there. The company’s new series of TVs with the Android TV operating system consists of four sizes, starting with a 43-incher for $350 in the US. There are also 50-inch ($400), 55-inch ($450) and 65-inch ($700) sizes in the series. …
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Roku TVs routinely earn high marks in CNET’s reviews for their ease of use, superb streaming options and, in one example, excellent image quality. Now playing: Watch this: Roku smart speakers are coming 1:08 Unlike its streaming devices, however, Roku doesn’t actually manufacture the TVs. Instead it partners with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), brands including TCL, Sharp, Hisense, RCA, Hitachi, …
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With high dynamic range (HDR) becoming available on more and more TVs, chances are your next TV will have it as a feature. But you might need to upgrade more than just the TV to get the full HDR experience. Depending on how complex your system is, you may also need to upgrade all or some of your gear, since …
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Even for streaming video, it’s true what they say: You can’t always get what you want. The top complaint consumers have about streaming-video services like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu is lack of content, according to a survey by IBM Cloud Video, which powers streaming for online video providers. Nearly half of those users say video-streaming services rarely or …
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YouTube TV finally has a full app, but the rollout to various TV devices is taking longer than originally planned. The apps for Roku and Apple TV, originally slated to launch before the end of 2017, are now scheduled for the first quarter of 2018. Also planned for the Q1 timeframe, a YouTube representative told me, are apps for older …
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If you want one clicker to control a rack full of AV gear, I recommend the excellent Harmony Smart Control for $70. If you really want to splurge on something even better, grab the Elite for $250. But maybe even that do-it-all clicker isn’t good enough for you. Maybe you want “a new kind of television experience.” One option is …
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