This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. I’m a big fan of lasers: Light shows, toys, sharks and projectors. Lasers are cool. They’re a great way to throw a lot of light at something. Officially launched in the US at CES 2021, LG’s …
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Every few years Hollywood releases a movie with high-frame rate, or HFR. The most recent, Ang Lee’s Gemini Man, was intended by the director to be seen at 120 frames per second, five times the traditional 24fps. Lee is not alone in his love of HFR. Peter Jackson, of Lord of the Rings and Hobbit fame, thinks HFR is the …
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Amid all the bad news about the coronavirus pandemic, TV tech nerds can take solace in one constant: TV makers have mostly told me new sets will ship on schedule this spring. And that includes my favorite high-end TV over the last few years, LG’s OLED-based models. The newest versions, first announced at CES in January, range widely in size and price …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. TV shows and movies in 4K HDR offer the best home video quality available today, but in some situations it can look too dark. That’s because they’re often created to be shown in a dark, theatrical environment, and when the lights …
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This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. OLED TV isn’t broke, and in 2020 LG didn’t fix it. The company’s CES 2020 lineup includes a few neat extras but nothing that would make a current owner regret his or her purchase. In fact, the biggest addition is a smaller …
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Lots of viewers complained that the third episode of Game of Thrones season 8, The Long Night aka The Battle of Winterfell, was too dark. In response, the episode’s cinematographer Fabien Wagner channeled Steve Jobs and essentially said you’re holding it wrong. “A lot of the problem is that a lot of people don’t know how to tune their TVs properly,” Wagner said in …
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You may have never heard of the “Soap Opera Effect,” but if you buy the Blu-ray (4K or standard edition) for Mission: Impossible Fallout, you’ll be treated to an unusual plea before the movie begins: Tom Cruise, the movie’s star, and Christopher McQuarrie, the movie’s director, encourage you to turn off the motion smoothing feature in your TV’s settings. Often …
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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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The world is now officially crazy for football (aka soccer) in the month-long, quadrennial frenzy of competition known as the FIFA World Cup. Sure, hundreds of thousands of people get to see the matches in person in Russia, but hundreds of millions more will watch on TV all over the globe. If you plan to be one of them, here …
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Think you’re getting a 120Hz TV? Hold up just a second. You might not be. Many TVs today are 60Hz, despite having “motion rates” and “effective refresh rates” claiming much higher numbers, including 120, 240 and more. TV companies are deliberately hiding the actual refresh rate from you, and it’s been going on for years. In some cases some 60Hz TVs …
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