TV

Zombies are real – not in the walking dead sense, but parasites that can force creatures to do things against their will. The launch of The Last of Us season 2 feels like a great time to explore some of the real-world zombie stories that inspired it.

Apple TV+ has been producing top-shelf science fiction as a defining pillar of its offering – and it's putting together an impressive slate. From outright successes to grand artistic swing 'n' misses, here's our ranking of Apple's sci-fi TV, from worst to best.

After stealing the show at CES 2024 in January, LG's totally transparent TV is finally available to buy. The 77-inch Signature OLED T can be yours for an eye-watering $60,000. That's as much as you'd pay for a 2025 BMW 5-series car.

Apple TV+ has clearly invested in top-shelf science fiction as a defining pillar of its offering – and overall, it's put together an impressive slate. From outright successes to grand artistic swing 'n' misses, here's our ranking, worst to best.

Back in mid-2014, LG unveiled its first experimental transparent OLED display panel. That measured just 18 diagonal inches, but now the company has revealed a 77-inch transparent OLED television that's almost completely wireless.

LG's experimental marketing platform is teasing a retro-modern reworking of the jukebox ahead of CES 2024. Dubbed the DukeBox, the concept fronts a stylish speaker unit driven by valve amp technology with a thoroughly modern transparent OLED panel.

We have lots of strange, creative and original film and TV to look forward to in 2024, including an apocalypse musical, an android exploring human emotions, a story about a clone who lives forever, and a portentous US civil war feature.

One of the tech highlights of CES 2023 back in January was a battery-powered totally wireless television from startup Displace. The company is returning to Las Vegas in January to add to the family with a 27-inch Mini model and a 55-inch Flex.

Rather than trail wires around the room for a home theater audio setup, Dolby's new technology pairs a big-screen television's own sound system with wireless speakers spread across the room – "transforming any seat into the best seat in the house."

Following its debut at CES 2023, LG announced the global launch of what's billed as the world's first 4K 120-Hz wireless AV-controlled OLED TV earlier this month. Now US pricing/availability has been revealed for 97-inch, 83-inch and 77-inch models.

A research team from the UK's Nottingham Trent University, the Australian National University and the University of New South Wales Canberra has developed a display prototype that could replace the LCD panels common to many of today's big-screen TVs.

The sharpness of images on a MicroLED screen is limited by how tightly the pixels that make up the display are packed. MIT scientists have taken a unique approach to packing them much tighter, by vertically stacking the pixels' components.