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Panasonic will launch its first super-sized OLED TV this year, the 77-inch LZ2000. That’s great news for picture-purists who have long coveted Panasonic’s OLED tech but wanted a display bigger than 65 inches, complete with improvements in brightness, audio and gaming. Here’s the UK media release announcing the LZ2000 range: Panasonic introduces LZ2000, its flagship OLED […]

Sony’s 2022 range of OLED TVs will boast the widest colour palette yet for its flagship series and the same premium backlighting system that drives its Mini LED TVs for unprecedented brightness. It also will launch its pre-loaded movie streaming service in more than 75 countries, although it’s not known if NZ will be among […]

Samsung has announced its 2022 range of LED TVs but not the availability of its first OLED model, despite it wining a CES Innovation Award. According to the judges: Samsung’s 65” QD-Display TV is the world’s first true RGB self-emitting Quantum Dot OLED display—revolutionising TV by combining the contrast levels of RGB OLED with the […]

If you’ve been sitting on the fence about whether your next TV should be an OLED or turbo-charged LED model, LG today revealed its 2022 range that touts “the next level in OLED evolution”. The new G2 series will be brighter, bigger and smaller, with the company set to market its first 42-inch OLED TV. […]

Ahead of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow TVNZ OnDemand premiere, The Hollywood Reporter has published a beginner’s guide to the “superhero mash-up“, which it likens to “taking a bunch of comic book shows and putting them into a blender, with the end result being a delicious but jam-packed DC Comics smoothie. There’s more than one show’s fair share of […]

Samsung NZ has revealed more about its new SUHD TV range that will go on sale between April and June, including how it’s optimised for viewing in brightly lit living rooms. “This year, all of the Samsung SUHD TVs will feature the ability to provide a premium high dynamic range (HDR) experience, with 1,000 nit […]

Samsung’s newest SUHD range will go on sale here in the second quarter. Unveiled today at CES, the second-generation line-up will include the the world’s first bezel-less curved design and what Samsung claims will be “the smartest user experience”, making it even easier to access all your entertainment content in one place. Samsung’s Tizen operating system also eliminates the need to […]

LG will launch its slimmest UHD LCD TV yet this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas (January 6-9). But the new premium “LG Super HD” displays will still be marginally thicker than Sony’s breathtakingly svelte X90C range: 6.6mm vs 4.9mm. Despite the thin profile, LG claims the harman/kardon speaker system will still […]

Panasonic and LG are the first TV suppliers to offer FreeviewPlus. Freeview demonstrated the new platform to media this morning using LG TVs. LG’s category marketing manager Dylan Cruickshank says the feature went live today and all LG webOS 2.0 TV models will have HbbTV/FreeviewPlus support. “Essentially this means all new Smart TV models introduced in […]

On the eve of unveiling its groundbreaking 2015 range of TVs, complete with several NZ exclusives, to about 1400 retailers and media, including yours truly, at a Pacific-Asia forum in Bangkok, Samsung says fears of its Smart TVs spying on viewers are “groundless”. “There is no foundation to claims their Smart TV is recording users’ […]