NHK To Begin 1st 8K Satellite Broadcast Channel, Dec. 1
Those wondering when we might expect to get real Ultra HD 8K content to go with the new 8K televisions coming to market this year and next, got some insight this week from Japan’s NHK broadcasting company, which formally announced plans to launch the world’s…
Samsung Kicks Off Black Friday TV Promos
Samsung recently began a series of Black Friday pricing specials on select QLED and NU Series 4K LED-LCD TVs. These are among the lowest prices of the year for select models, including many of the company’s popular QLED 4K series with quantum dot enhancement film…
Review: Samsung Q7FN 4K UHD TV Excels With Color
For those looking for a very good performing and affordable 4K Ultra HD/HDR quantum dot television, Samsung’s QN55QFN QLED model has both the color and brightness performance to warrant serious consideration. We found the model we tested to be a surprisingly bright television with deep…
Sony 65A9F Master Series 4K OLED Wins 2018 ‘TV Shoot Out’
Sony’s new Master Series 65A9F 4K Ultra HD OLED TV narrowly beat out a field of the four top-performing 4K flat-panel televisions for 2018 in voting by a panel of “expert” judges to win the annual “TV Shoot Out” presented by Scarsdale, N.Y. high-end electronics…
Samsung To Bring 4K QLED TV Truck To Key NCAA Football Games
Are you ready for some football? Well, Samsung and ESPN certainly are. Samsung is using the kickoff of the NCAA Football Season to execute “an exclusive marketing and retail collaboration” with the national cable sports network to advertise and promote its 2018 QLED LED-LCD TVs…
LG, Samsung Take First Shots In Coming 8K TV War
Let the 8K war begin! South Korean TV manufacturing rivals Samsung and LG are using the IFA electronics show in Berlin, Germany this week and presumably CEDIA Expo 2018 next week in San Diego to kick off the next chapter in the high-resolution video wars…
Calibration Expert: `Is 10,000 Nits Of Brightness Enough?’
Although some experts have warned against going too far with peak luminance in next-generation televisions designs, Tyler Pruitt, technical evangelist with display calibration specialist Portrait Displays/SpectraCal and a SMPTE member, said existing standards aren’t nearly high enough. Speaking at the Insight Media/Samsung-sponsored QLED and other…
HDR10+ Looks For Greater Availability In Content, Hardware
The HDR10+ high dynamic range (HDR) profile based on dynamic metadata is moving steadily toward more mainstream support by content producers, distributors and consumer electronics manufacturers, a spokesman for Samsung’s HDR10+ program recently told an audience attending an advanced display summit in Hollywood. Bill…
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