Television

If you like your living space light and airy, big-screen TVs can present a bit of an aesthetics problem. The M1 from Austrian luxury brand C Seed lives in the floor until needed, then rises up and unfolds for 165 inches of MicroLED 4K visuals.

When viewing sports coverage from other countries, it's common to see advertising boards promoting products you've never heard of, but a new TV system is capable of digitally replacing that advertising content with region-specific products.

Usually when we talk about "cutting the cord," it means cancelling cable TV. But Russian startup Reasonance has bigger plans for TV cord cutting, showing a prototype that leaves the electrical cord behind in favor of wireless power.

To get the best from HDR10+ on a living room TV, you may have to dim the lights. But Samsung's next batch of QLED televisions will support a new optimization feature that will adjust the viewing experience to cater for varying lighting conditions.

LG's new QNED Mini LED TV lineup, which it is introducing at CES 2021, essentially puts local dimming on steroids, packing nearly 2,500 dimming zones thanks to "almost 30,000" mini LEDs serving as the backlighting.

A few years ago Samsung unveiled The Wall, a huge display that was more billboard than home entertainment. Now it is bringing the technology behind it, MicroLED, to consumer-ready TVs, although we’d imagine it's still too much for most people to handle.

Not every living room is large enough to house a 77-inch television from Denmark's Bang & Olufsen, and the high-end company has responded to requests from customers for something smaller with a 48-inch 4K OLED model rocking a built-in soundbar.

Is it time to turn your TV on its side and embrace the future? Or is vertical video just a passing trend, fundamentally unsuited to how we want to watch things?

China's Xiaomi has launched a new TV as part of its 10th anniversary celebration. The Mi TV Lux Transparent Edition brings sci-fi into the living room with an edge-to-edge self-luminous television that you can see through.

Samsung's Lifestyle family of TVs has today got a new member. Designed for outside viewing, the Terrace 4K QLED television is weather-resistant and boasts a brighter screen, and there's a weather-resistant soundbar to go with it.

From long-awaited adaptions of classic sci-fi novels, to blockbuster original stories from some of our most creative modern visionaries, here are our picks for the most anticipated science fiction film and TV hitting screens in 2020.

Bang & Olufsen's Beosound Stage is a stunning Bluetooth speaker, and a relatively affordable way to get sparkling B&O audio into your home cinema.