So you've cut the cord, but want to catch a few shows on major networks without adding a new paid TV subscription. If you splurge on a digital tuner (or cable card) and antenna, you're free to enjoy uncompressed HD broadcasts from most of the majors...
The Sam's Club Black Friday 2016 deals are again among the best you can find during Black Friday. The advantage of shopping Black Friday deals at Sam's Club is that the deals are going on sale early...
The Walmart Black Friday 2016 Ad advertises several bargain HDTV deals. One of them is a $225 50-inch Emerson HDTV deal. The brand of the 50-inch 1080p LED TV can vary. The Walmart ad...
Sony really wants to clarify a few things about the PlayStation 4 Pro:
First, the Pro doesn't signal the end of video game console generations, even though its specs and launch window fit a pattern that resembles PC or smartphone upgrade cycles more...
A few years ago it became necessary to purchase converter boxes to still be able to receive Over The Air TV signals, since they went all digital. But these converter boxes just plug into your TV, and let you watch programs on a larger screen; if you want to see stuff on your tablet? You’re out of luck. If you get the WatchAir, a smart antenna, you can do just that. It sends the OTA HDTV signals to any connected smart device, by using your home router and WiFi. You can record shows, access the TV guide, and do anything you’d normally do on your living room TV, but on your cellphone, your tablet, or your laptop. It’s currently going through a Kickstarter, and a $189 pledge will get you yours.
Of all the new smartphones launched this year, LG's G5 is by far the most audacious. With two rear-facing cameras and a wacky, removable bottom bezel that can we swapped out for LG's "Friends" accessories, the G5 is nothing if not different. And than...
VIZIO today rolled out the 2016 upgrade to its already awesome P-Series 4K displays, adding features heretofore reserved for their most expensive Reference Displays. For starters, the new VIZIO SmartCast P-Series Ultra HD HDR Home Theater Display (that’s a mouthful) now includes support for High Dynamic Range and Dolby Vision encoded content. This is a big deal, since HDR is really the biggest thing to happen to displays since HD.
It’s really hard to describe how good HDR images look on a UHD display, but colors are more vibrant, and the difference between the darkest and brightest areas of images is staggering. Light sources like traffic lights and the sun look like they’re actually glowing off your screen, and not just flat. These new displays also incorporate an improved full-array local dimming system which uses 128 individual zones of LEDs which provide impressive backlight and contrast performance. Once you’ve used a display with full-array local dimming, it’s hard to enjoy one with edge lighting like some of the super-skinny displays out there from Samsung and other brands.
Our friends from Digital Trends were on hand for the product launch at Vizio HQ, and were very impressed with the new displays:
The P-Series also substantially ups its remote control game with the inclusion of a 6″ Android-based tablet remote control, which makes it easy to control everything about your display from the convenience of your couch. The VIZIO SmartCast app even lets you adjust things like backlight brightness on the remote’s screen – something typically reserved for on-screen menus.
It also provides easy access to content discovery for the myriad content providers like Netflix and Hulu from the remote. Since it’s a full Android tablet, you can also use it to play games and other apps from the Google Play store.
Pricing for the new 2016 VIZIO P-Series displays is as follows:
Pricing as usual is excellent – especially for the 50″, 55″ and 65″ models. I’m a little surprised to see the elimination of the 70″ model, since I have last year’s version in that size. I’m also totally jealous that I don’t have HDR support, and might just have to upgrade to the new 75″ model.
It appears that the 55″, 65″ and 75″ are available for order today directly from the VIZIO website.
Where are the TVs? In my ten years of attending CES I've never had to ask this question, and to be fair, this year they were still front and center in a few booths. But Sony pushed TVs and projectors to the fringe of its spacious CES booth (ceding sp...
CES 2016 starts this coming week, and it looks like LG will be doubling down on OLED as the next big display technology for the living room. In preparation for the upcoming electronics show, I like to do some preliminary research, and came across numerous LG OLED display models which recently were granted Wi-Fi certification.
OLED displays offer significant advantages in terms of contrast, color range and thickness compared to LCD screens, though they’ve not been cost effective for most consumers to date. LG appears to have new 65″ and 77″ displays in the works, based on LG’s typical naming conventions. Here’s the full list of models that I found:
After more than a year of waiting Vizio finally opened up orders for two models from its "Reference Series" line, and now it's expanding the rollout. At Best Buy's Magnolia Design Center locations (they're a bit more limited than the regular Magnol...
So you've cut the cord, but want to catch a few shows on major networks without adding a new paid TV subscription. If you splurge on a digital tuner (or cable card) and antenna, you're free to enjoy uncompressed HD broadcasts from most of the majors...
Sony really wants to clarify a few things about the PlayStation 4 Pro:
First, the Pro doesn't signal the end of video game console generations, even though its specs and launch window fit a pattern that resembles PC or smartphone upgrade cycles more...
Of all the new smartphones launched this year, LG's G5 is by far the most audacious. With two rear-facing cameras and a wacky, removable bottom bezel that can we swapped out for LG's "Friends" accessories, the G5 is nothing if not different. And than...
Where are the TVs? In my ten years of attending CES I've never had to ask this question, and to be fair, this year they were still front and center in a few booths. But Sony pushed TVs and projectors to the fringe of its spacious CES booth (ceding sp...
After more than a year of waiting Vizio finally opened up orders for two models from its "Reference Series" line, and now it's expanding the rollout. At Best Buy's Magnolia Design Center locations (they're a bit more limited than the regular Magnol...