Panasonic Enters 4K OLED TV Market
Panasonic used the IFA Show in Berlin, Germany Wednesday to unveil its first 4K OLED TV – a 65-inch curved-screen model. The company, which for years championed the superior contrast and off-angle viewing benefits of plasma TVs over LED LCD TVs, added its first OLED…
LG webOS TVs Get Upgraded, DirecTV 4K Added
LG Electronics USA revealed Monday an expanded list of content partners for its webOS Smart TV platform, including access to streaming Full HD and 4K content from DirecTV without the need of extra boxes. LG also announced a free firmware update for 2014 webOS Smart…
Samsung Takes Aim At LG RGBW LCD TVs
The on-going dispute over whether or not LG’s newly launched RGBW LED LCD TV technology qualifies for the minimum resolution performance characteristics of a 4K Ultra HD display resurfaced over the weekend as Samsung sent out a notice that all of its 2015 6 series to…
LG Adds Flat-Screen 4K OLED TV Series With HDR
In advance of the IFA consumer electronics trade show in Berlin, Germany, LG revealed Tuesday plans to introduce the EF9500 series of flat-screen 4K Ultra HD OLED TVs that will be “fully HDR enabled.” The series, which is scheduled to hit retail shelves in September,…
4K Ultra HDTVs And Cameras Not Seeing Much Cross Promotion
Despite still limited availability of pre-recorded 4K Ultra HD TV content, accelerating sales of 4K Ultra HD TVs and growing assortments of cameras and camcorders with built-in 4K Ultra HD video recording capabilities, the TV and camera industries have yet to do much to cross…
HDR Still Not Happening At Retail
4K Ultra HDTVs capable of delivering High Dynamic Range (HDR) may be one of the hottest new technologies on the television market this year, but don’t be surprised if you don’t hear anything about it on retail sales floors, so far. Even though some of the latest and…
LG Readies First Curved Wireless Sound Bar
LG said its first sound bar designed for curved-screen TVs, model LAS855M, will hit retail shelves in October at a $699 suggested retail price. The company’s first curved sound bar was designed to match the curve of LG’s curved OLED TV models, including the…
Nothing Refreshing About Refresh Rates This Year
Back in 2012, the HD Guru warned readers that most TV manufacturers had started substituting industry standardized specifications for LED LCD TV motion smoothing technologies with proprietary terminology and corresponding numbers that at first glance appeared to be high native refresh rates but actually weren’t….
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