Samsung: Industry Needs `Good-Better-Best’ HDR TV Classifications
Samsung’s Steve Panosian One of the biggest challenges facing consumers shopping for a good performing 4K Ultra HDTV today is learning what high dynamic range and a wide color gamut are and then knowing how to determine which TVs claiming to be HDR and…
Experts Come To Terms With HDR Display Challenges
Florian Freidrich and Kevin Miller speak at Samsung 837 Wednesday Think high dynamic range (HDR) and wide color gamut televisions are tough to comprehend? Try being a professional display calibrator or product reviewer trying to tweak and measure the new displays designed to present…
Vizio Announces HDR-10 Firmware Update For P-, M-Series Displays
A Vizio 2016 M-Series Display Vizio officially announced Wednesday that it is delivering a new firmware update (v2.0.13.13) to its 2016 SmartCast P-Series and M-Series Ultra HD HDR “displays,” providing those models with support…
2016 Consumer TV Satisfaction Study Awards Samsung, Sony
Consumer satisfaction research firm J.D. Power recently released its “2016 TV Satisfaction Report,” which ranked Samsung highest among all other brands in the 50-inch and larger TV screen-size segment and Sony highest among all other brands in TVs with screen sizes under-50-inches. The annual report,…
LeEco Acquires Vizio In Bid To Disrupt OTT/TV Ecosystem
LeEco Chairman Yueting Jia (left) celebrates with Vizio CEO William Wang. In a deal that could be as disruptive for the over-the-top content streaming industry as Vizio’s entry was to U.S. television manufacturing, China-based Internet content giant LeEco announced Wednesday that it is acquiring…
Sony Pictures Technology Head: For HDR ‘One Size Doesn’t Fit All’
Bill Baggelaar, Sony Pictures Technology Senior VP, stands next to a new Sony XBR-100Z9D . In introducing its new flagship Z9D XBR line of 4K Ultra HD TVs this week Sony had Bill Baggelaar, Sony Pictures technology senior VP, tell members of the media…
Sony Unveils 4K Ultra HDTV With Full Array Backlighting On Steroids
Sony Electronics President Mike Fasulo with a new Z9D 4K Ultra HDTV. Sony Electronics Wednesday put Samsung and LG on notice that there is a new technology contender for the top-performing 4K Ultra HDTV crown. The company formally unveiled its new Z9D Series TVs,…
Review: Samsung UN65KS9800 Raises The Bar On HDR
We finally got our hands on one of Samsung’s 2016 flagship 4K Ultra HDTVs in the KS9800 series and what we found was as impressive as we expected. In fact, so far, it stands as the best of the 2016 4K Ultra HDTVs we’ve…
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