Last year AT&T announced plans to launch yet another TV streaming service, AT&T TV, to its already crowded lineup. The new service will offer largely the same channels as the existing DirecTV, but it’ll come over the internet via an Android streaming-TV box, rather than a satellite dish. AT&T calls it a “TV service that […]
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YouTube TV will keep streaming Fox RSNs and YES Network during negotiations with Sinclair
YouTube TV, Google’s internet pay-TV service, said it will drop the Fox regional sports networks and the YES Network from customer lineups this Saturday, Feb. 29 citing an impasse in negotiations with Sinclair Broadcast Group, which owns the RSNs. “We purchase rights from Sinclair to distribute content to you,” the YouTube TV account said in […]
Apple TV+ documentary series will profile Oprah, Lin-Manuel and Big Bird
Apple has announced a new docuseries for Apple TV+ titled “Dear…” Apple TV+ documentary series that, in an odd twist, will use the “Dear Apple” ads as inspiration for the basic format. The show will profile “iconic” people through letters written by people whose lives were changed by a given cultural leader’s achievements. The figures […]
Samsung’s zero-bezel 8K TV is real
Samsung has announced a premium 8K TV it’s bringing to CES 2020, confirming the image that leaked a few days ago is real. The Q950TS is not only a super-high resolution TV, it also “sets a new standard” for TV screens with its Infinity Design. Other than a small edge along the bottom, there’s really […]
Samsung set to reveal a true ‘Zero Bezel’ TV next week at CES 2020
TV technology has made huge leaps over the last decade, with one of the many advances being shrinking bezels. At the upcoming CES event, however, Samsung is expected to go one step further by unveiling the first true ‘Zero Bezel’ television. According to The Elecn, Samsung’s consumer electronics boss Kim Hyun-Seok and other executives have […]
Samsung tweet suggests scanning your smart TV for malware every few weeks
Samsung customer support account tweeted an odd warning that, to prevent malicious software attacks on your smart TV, you should scan it for viruses every few weeks. It even included an instructional video to help you do so. The tweet, first spotted by The Verge, was short lived. Samsung has since removed it, but it […]
Polaroid 49-inch 4K Dolby Vision TV (P49UPA2029A) review
Dolby Vision, 4K HDR images and integrated smart services. These were once the reserves of super luxury high-end televisions. But as technologies mature, so do their prices, and a new set of LCD Polaroid TVs seem to offer this type of headline feature at an affordable price. The Polaroid P49UPA2029A 49-inch 4K HDR TV features […]
T-Mobile unveils home TV service which it is calling TVision Home
While the pay-TV bundle is getting slimmer, major telecom company T-Mobile is placing a strategic bet that customers will still spark to a hardware-based, higher-priced offering. T-Mobile TVision Home is an upgraded version of Layer3 TV that’ll launch first in eight markets including Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Washington […]
OLED TV: what you need to know
Welcome to the world of OLED TV. More manufacturers than ever are betting on OLED technology is seeing wider implementation and improvement all the time, even becoming the display of choice for the iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max. But what is OLED, and why should you care? Standing for ‘Organic Light Emitting Diode’, the OLED […]
Samsung Q90 QLED TV Review
A QLED that does things only an OLED previously could, the Q90R is an exceptional telly. Samsung has clearly taken these criticisms to heart, and directly addressed them in the Q90. The new model has a visibly superior viewing angle that holds its own against an OLED TV, and the local dimming delivers deep blacks […]
Samsung NU7100 Review
Good Low price Crisp 4K picture HDR10+ Bad Basic HDR Edge-lit No Bixby Our bedroom TV broke and was looking for a replacement budget 4K TV. The Samsung NU7100 treads the line between its budget credentials and 4K HDR specs impressively, offering a sharp and smooth picture that leverages its basic HDR capabilities to great […]