Tag Archives: TVs

The best Labor Day sales on 4K TVs from Sony, Samsung, TCL, and more

The best Labor Day sales on 4K TVs from Sony, Samsung, TCL, and more

Labor Day weekend marks the unofficial end of summer, which is a bit sad, but it’s a great time to get a deal on a fancy, new TV. The US holiday is happening just before the start of the 2025-2026 NFL season, the World Cup qualifiers, and the lead-up to the MLB post-season games. This sports trifecta means you can …

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Samsung makes good on promise to bring Microsoft Copilot to TVs

Samsung makes good on promise to bring Microsoft Copilot to TVs

Microsoft Copilot has a new home in Samsung’s TVs and monitors after the company announced a partnership earlier in the year. Samsung announced the official rollout of Microsoft Copilot on its 2025 TVs and smart monitors as a part of the Samsung Vision AI experience. Samsung says that Copilot will be accessible through voice commands or the remote. The AI …

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Microsoft’s Copilot AI is now inside Samsung TVs and monitors

Microsoft’s Copilot AI is now inside Samsung TVs and monitors

Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant is officially coming to TVs, starting with Samsung’s 2025 lineup of TVs and smart monitors. With the integration, you can call upon Copilot and ask for movie suggestions, spoiler-free episode recaps, and other general questions. On TV, Copilot takes on a “friendly, animated presence” that resembles the opalescent Copilot Appearance Microsoft showed off last month, though …

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Your TV’s USB port has 5 hidden superpowers: Here’s how I take advantage of mine

Your TV’s USB port has 5 hidden superpowers: Here’s how I take advantage of mine

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. After the initial setup, most people rarely engage directly with their smart TV. With wireless connectivity, phone apps, and remote controls, there’s little need to. Tucked next to the essential HDMI ports, a USB 2.0 port — likely sitting unnoticed on the back or side panel — offers more potential …

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Samsung QN90F vs. Samsung Micro RGB TV: Why Do These Huge TVs Cost $30,000?

Samsung QN90F vs. Samsung Micro RGB TV: Why Do These Huge TVs Cost ,000?

Samsung unveiled its newest gigantic television, the 115-inch Q90F, at an event in New Jersey this week. The $27,000 TV appeared alongside the company’s other 115-inch Micro RGB TV, which costs even more: $30,000. But what do these LCD TVs give you that smaller, cheaper models can’t? I saw both TVs on display, and this is what I think.  The QN90F …

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Sports TV’s Popular Formats Like ‘SportsCenter’ Get Streaming Shake-Up

Sports TV’s Popular Formats Like ‘SportsCenter’ Get Streaming Shake-Up

Imagine a version of ESPN‘s “Sports Center” where you — not Scott Van Pelt, not Elle Duncan, not Kevin Neghandi — leads the show. Actually, you don’t have to. On Thursday, ESPN will launch an interactive version of the show that gives each subscriber almost exactly what they want. This “Sports Center for You,” actually a series of short clips …

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Farewell to Carrie Bradshaw, TV’s exasperating, enduring heroine

Farewell to Carrie Bradshaw, TV’s exasperating, enduring heroine

CARRIE BRADSHAW has skipped across Manhattan in Manolo Blahniks for the last time. On August 14th “And Just Like That…” (“AJLT”) broadcast its final episode and so bid farewell to Carrie, almost 30 years after she first appeared on television screens in “Sex and the City” (“satc”). In the debut episode, Carrie lamented the dearth of “great unmarried men” in …

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Here Comes RGB Mini-LED: What You Need to Know About the Next Big Thing for TVs

Here Comes RGB Mini-LED: What You Need to Know About the Next Big Thing for TVs

Here’s a promise I can keep: In the coming years, you’ll be hearing a lot about something called RGB Mini-LED. Recently, several companies unveiled TVs that sport this brand-new display technology, and each of these brands couldn’t be more excited about the benefits RGB Mini-LEDs bring to the viewing experience. We’re talking brighter pictures, improved contrast, and color volume that …

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