Your Room Decides How the Picture Looks

You compared three televisions for a week and brought one home. It does not look like the showroom. Nothing is wrong with it. The room it now sits in is doing most of the work. How high and how far โ€ฆ

Does Your Old TV Really Need Replacing?

The television works perfectly. But the apps on it have stopped updating, and one has vanished altogether. The shop says the answer is a new television. Very often the answer costs a fraction of that. What does a streaming stick โ€ฆ

Why Does a New Smart TV Feel So Slow?

The picture is lovely. But pressing the home button takes three seconds to do anything. Apps open slowly, the grid stutters, and the set was bought only last year. Nothing is broken. This is simply how most affordable smart TVs โ€ฆ

4K, Refresh Rate and the Numbers That Sell TVs

The sticker on a new television carries more numbers than a school report card. 4K, hertz, contrast ratios with far too many zeros. Only a couple of them change what you see from your sofa. What does 4K actually mean? โ€ฆ

LED, QLED, OLED: What the Box Is Really Saying

You walk into the showroom to buy one television. You walk out confused by three sets of letters. Every sticker says LED, QLED or OLED, and the salesman says the expensive one is better. Let us take the words apart, โ€ฆ