British independent AV retailer Crampton & Moore will be holding its annual TV showdown event in collaboration with HDTVTest on Sunday the 13th of August in Greater London. The five televisions that will be showcased in this public side-by-side comparison are: LG B7 (OLED65B7V) OLED TV; Panasonic EZ1002 (TX-65EZ1002B) OLED TV; Samsung Q9 (QE65Q9F) QLED TV; Sony A1 (KD-65A1) OLED ... Read More »

After a few years by the wayside, Toshiba is aiming to rejuvenate its brand in the UK and European TV market, as evidenced by this week’s launch of the company’s first OLED TV outside its home country of Japan. The Toshiba X97 is a 65-inch OLED television whose WRGB panel would have been sourced from LG Display, the sole vendor ... Read More »

Netflix has begun rolling out mobile HDR streaming on selected compatible phones, including the LG G6 with Dolby Vision support, and the Samsung Galaxy S8 series of smartphones that carry the “Mobile HDR Premium” certification from the Ultra HD Alliance (UHDA), even though the latter is not at this time of publication officially listed as a compatible device on Netflix’s ... Read More »

Panasonic announced this week that its “4K Pro” range of EZ1002 and EZ952 OLED televisions have received both Ultra HD Premium and THX 4K certifications, courtesy of the displays’ first-rate video processing and OLED panels. When the Panasonic EZ1002 was first unveiled at CES back in January, with the EZ952 following suit at the Japanese brand’s annual European convention in ... Read More »

OPPO Digital is an electronics manufacturer with an interesting history. When large, digitally-driven flat-panel displays were becoming common, OPPO joined other manufacturers and brought to market “upconverting” DVD players which scaled 480i and 576i DVD content to HD resolution. The rationale back then was that in-TV processing left something to be desired, and there were benefits of allowing deinterlacing chips ... Read More »