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The UK's Matthew Perks has been running a YouTube channel for about five years, where he walks viewers through the ins and outs of making their own gadgets. For his latest project, he's rescued some broken televisions and computer monitors and turned them into artificial daylight panel lighting.

The marketplace for streaming TV dongles looks pretty crowded, with solid offerings such as Google's Chromecast Amazon's Fire TV Stick and Roku's Streaming Stick. Is there room for one more? With the launch of its 4K HDR AirTV Mini this week, Dish obviously thinks so.

Since 2018, Samsung has been grabbing eyeballs at various conferences around the world with its massive modular display dubbed The Wall. Now you'll be able put one of those 292-in monsters in your living room, providing you've got a wall big enough to accommodate it.

​Although many people have fought to get smartphone videographers to shoot everything in landscape mode (horizontally), it appears that the battle has been lost. The proof? Samsung has unveiled an HD TV designed for Millennials, that has a vertical screen.

With iPhone sales slowing, Apple knows there's more money to be made in digital services – and so today it's launched digital subscription packages for TV content, games, and digital news, as well as its own Apple Pay credit card. Read on for the details of everything Apple announced today.

​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.

​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.

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.

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.

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.

​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.​

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.