Items tagged with televisions
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Paul Lilly - Sun, Aug 25, 2024
By now, you've probably wrapped up your fantasy football draft, or at least are about to, with this year's NFL season commencing on Thursday, September 5. As kickoff approaches, you can pivot to getting your hands on a dream TV deal...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Aug 02, 2024
One of the reasons someone might be inclined to plop a wad of cash on a giant television to upgrade their home theater in preparation for the big game—the Super Bowl. TCL has a slightly different pitch. Should you decide to spend big on...
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Paul Lilly - Sat, Jul 27, 2024
If you're like me, then you're old enough to remember when big screen TVs were absolutely massive units with monstrous price tags to boot. Remember those unwieldy front projection models, followed by slightly sleeker but still bulky rear...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Jun 18, 2024
The cream of the crop when it comes to widely available TV technology is still OLED, though it comes at a pricing premium compared to LCD and, in most cases, mini LED as well. However, OLED is much more affordable these days than it was...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Jun 06, 2024
At some point, micro LED technology has the potential to disrupt the TV display landscape by potentially dethroning OLED in image quality while completely avoiding OLED's biggest weaknesses, such as the risk of permanent image retention...
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Paul Lilly - Sun, May 26, 2024
Intense competition on the TV space has allowed manufacturers and retailers to offer some enticing discounts on high end models, including OLED displays, which are the cream of the crop in terms of image quality. Driving this point home...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, May 08, 2024
Samsung is expanding its OLED TV lineup with some additional size options to its existing S90D series, while also rolling out a brand-new S85D family to make the leap into OLED territory a little more affordable—manufacturer suggested...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Apr 19, 2024
There are two premium display technologies competing for the attention of consumers, those being OLED and mini LED (you can throw micro LED into the mix as well, but it's not as widely adopted yet or remotely affordable). Sony has chosen a...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Apr 16, 2024
You may not have noticed, but incredibly large TVs are coming within grasp of ordinary individuals rather than being relegated to those who scored big on Bitcoin, or otherwise amassed a fortune. No, we're not talking about 65-inch...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Apr 08, 2024
For a long time, the two main reasons to skip over OLED were prohibitively high prices and the risk of permanent image retention, otherwise known as burn-in. Over the past several years, however, TV makers and their retail partners have...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Mar 18, 2024
The NBA playoffs are just weeks away and same goes for the NHL, while opening day of the MLB season is not just days off in the distance. If you're a sports fan, now is a great time to bring home a big screen TV. And even if you're not...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Feb 14, 2024
In what would be a surprise and potentially game-changing move, Walmart is reportedly in discussions to acquire Vizio, a popular maker of smart TVs and soundbars, for $2 billion. Nothing is set in stone, but according to The New York...
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Paul Lilly - Sun, Feb 11, 2024
The day of the big game is has finally arrived and while it's too late to have a TV delivered in time (unless shopping at Best Buy or Walmart and with a local pick-up option), there are some super-sized deals on big screen TVs that you can...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Jan 31, 2024
The stage is set for this year’s Super Bowl, which will see the Kansas City Chiefs square off against the San Francisco 49ers. Kudos to anyone who managed to score tickets to the big game. For everyone else, the next best thing is to watch...
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Paul Lilly - Sat, Jan 27, 2024
You have a smidge over two weeks before Super Bowl Sunday arrives, which will see either the Detroit Lions or or San Francisco 49ers square off against the Kansas City Swifties or Baltimore Ravens for the ultimate prize (depending on the...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Jan 04, 2024
Quick, what's the first brand you associate with premium TVs? Ping at least 10 people with that very question and the responses will likely be split between Sony, LG, and Samsung. Some might even mention TCL and Hisense, especially with...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Jan 18, 2021
Tom Brady did his thing yesterday, dispatching with the New Orleans Saints to advance the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to the NFC Championship game. The winner between the Bucs and Green Bay Packers will advance to the Super Bowl. There are some...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Jan 07, 2019
At last year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Samsung introduced The Wall, a fantastically large 146-inch micro LED display. Now a year later, Samsung is upping the ante with an even bigger 219-inch model, as well as a more...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Dec 18, 2018
Big screen televisions are fairly common now, and even though they have slimmed down considerably since the days of rear projection TVs, they can still take up a lot of space in the living room. LG is attempting to make them less of a...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Oct 18, 2018
Here's my bold, and maybe biased prediction: Red Sox are going to the World Series, Patriots are headed to the Super Bowl, Celtics are a lock for the NBA Finals, and the Bruins will compete for the Stanley Cup. If you're a diehard Boston...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Sep 17, 2018
If you were asked to guess which smartphone maker now has plans to launch its own television, you'd say OnePlus, because read the headline. Had you not, however, you might have guessed Apple. it would have been a logical guess, based on...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Jan 08, 2018
In a bid to push consumers to upgrade their television sets, TV makers have been pushing increasingly large screens, some as big as 75 inches or even 80 inches. These big screen TVs do not necessarily cost a fortune, either. However...
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