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Panasonic embraces Dolby Vision with new flagship OLED TV

Darren Quick January 8, 2019

Panasonic has unveiled its latest 4K OLED flagship TV that packs a few firsts. In addition to being the first TV to pack upward-facing speakers capable of delivering Dolby Atmos audio, the GZ2000 is also the first TV to support both HDR10+ and Dolby Vision formats.

Panasonic's new GZ2000 4k OLED TV packs Dolby Atmos speakers and support for Dolby Vision and ...

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LG announces "world's first" roll-up OLED TV

Ben Coxworth January 7, 2019

As television screen sizes continue to increase, the viewing experience may improve, but the TVs also take up more space within a room. LG has set out to address that problem, with what it claims is the world's first production roll-up OLED TV.

The LG Signature OLED TV R is being debuted this week at CES in Las Vegas

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Samsung brings home its modular Micro LED TV – and builds a 219-in Wall display

Michael Irving January 6, 2019

At CES last year, Samsung showed off its new Micro LED display technology in the form of The Wall, a modular 146-in TV. This year there’s a more consumer-ready, 75-in version – or if 146 inches wasn’t big enough, The Wall has now also been stretched to a ridiculous 219 inches.

Samsung experiments with weird-shaped TVs thanks to its modular Micro LED display technology

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The best future-focused sci-fi film and TV coming in 2019

Rich Haridy December 26, 2018

If you are a fan of weird futurist sci-fi then the next twelve months promise a huge array of amazing new film and television. Here are our picks for the most anticipated future visions of 2019, on both big and small screens.

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Tom Cruise wants you to disable motion smoothing on your TV

Rich Haridy December 4, 2018

Coinciding with the release of Mission Impossible: Fallout on Blu-Ray, Tom Cruise and director Christopher McQuarrie have released a video pleading with viewers to disable motion smoothing on their TVs.

Tom Cruise and director Chistropher McQuarrie asking fans to turn off motion smoothing on their televisions

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NHK launches first 8K TV channel

Paul Ridden December 3, 2018

Japan's NHK has been experimenting with 8K broadcasting since 1995, sending out a compressed "Super Hi-Vision" signal for the first time back in 2012 and then managing to broadcast some events at the 2016 Rio Olympics. On Saturday December 1, NHK launched the first daily 8K TV channel.

Domestic viewers able to tune into the daily satellite broadcasts can look forward to 7,680 x ...

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Best Black Friday 2018 deals: Televisions

New Atlas Team November 19, 2018

Whether it's the prospect of keeping a bit more in your pocket, or putting the same money towards a bigger screen size – or that OLED panel you've been hankering for – Black Friday is the time of year you can finally make that dream of a new TV a reality.

Black Friday is a great time to make the jump to OLED, such as Sony's A8F

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Supersense brings video on vinyl to life on any regular TV

Paul Ridden October 16, 2018

Supersense has revived and refined an art project by Gebhard Sengmüller and Martin Diamant which sees users put a vinyl record on a turntable that results in sound and video appearing on a TV. Inbetween the two sits a VinylVideo Converter.

VinylVideo playback is fashionably low resolution, in both sound and video, but it's sure to be ...

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Real life ad-blockers: IRL Glasses black out computer and TV screens

Rich Haridy October 3, 2018

In a world bombarded by screens constantly blasting ads and visual noise, a team of artists and designers wondered if glasses could be created that can black out all those invasive messages. After a year of research and prototyping the IRL Glasses are now launching on Kickstarter.

Most LCD and LED televisions will be blacked out but not all computers

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Review: Sony A8F OLED TV boasts brains and beauty

Darren Quick August 22, 2018

Sony was the first to market with an OLED TV in 2007, but it was a decade before its second OLED model, the A1E. Sony followed the success of that model with the A8F (AF8 in Europe), and New Atlas has spent a few weeks basking in its impressive glow (and even more impressive blacks).