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SQD and RGB mini LED, NXTVISION and other @TCL_Europe 2026 @UHD4k TVs explained youtube.com/shorts/Ej6riGv… Recorded at TCL’s Experts meet Experts event in Warsaw.

Finally with the custom button! It has a star on it🤩 TCL 2026 premium remote review - recorded at @TCL_Europe’s #expertsmeetexperts event in Warsaw on 98X11L @UHD4k TV: youtube.com/shorts/-G7aLtL…

@payhip Croatian 🇭🇷

Payhip now supports even more default store languages 🎉 Here’s the full list (alphabetical order): • Arabic • Danish • Dutch • English • French • German • Italian • Japanese • Norwegian • Polish • Portuguese (Brazil) • Portuguese (Portugal) • Russian • Spanish • Swedish What other languages should we add? Drop your request in the comments 👇

HDR picture settings for Hisense 2025 @UHD4k TVs are now available in my store: payhip.com/b/j1C3r @HisenseGlobal

@Flatpanels I only saw this on Samsung TVs in EU, the mandatory login to Samsung account to use the apps.

The saga of Smart TV enshittification continues: New Vizio TVs now require a Walmart account to access streaming apps. More👇🏼

In a first, LG is said to be in talks to buy QD-OLED panels from Samsung Display. Samsung Electronics is already sourcing WOLED panels from LG Display. A Korean alliance as a bulwark against China? Our article👇🏼

Up to 2000 4K movies…now just to find enough time to watch them 🤔

Your Netflix "4K" stream and a 4K disc put the same number of pixels on your screen. But the disc version of a two-hour movie is about 70 gigabytes. The stream is about 14. Same pixels, roughly five times less data filling them. You see it first in dark scenes. The stream doesn't have enough data to tell dark grey from black, so your TV just mashes it all into chunky blocks. Then you notice sunsets looking like a paint-by-numbers, with visible stripes where smooth color should be. Film grain is probably the biggest casualty. Directors add that slightly textured look on purpose to make movies feel cinematic. Streaming compression reads it as noise and wipes it. That's where the weirdly plastic, waxy look on a good OLED comes from. One comparison I can't stop thinking about. A regular 1080p Blu-ray (the older HD format, not even 4K) pushes about 40 megabits of data per second to fill 2 million pixels. A 4K stream pushes 15-25 to fill 8 million pixels. Four times the pixels. Less data. A plain HD disc from 2008 can look sharper than a brand new 4K stream. Sound is worse. Netflix sends "Dolby Atmos" audio at about 768 kilobits per second, compressed, with parts of the original permanently deleted. A disc sends TrueHD Atmos at up to 18,000, lossless, nothing removed. Up to 23x more sound data. If dialogue sounds flat when you're streaming, that's not your speakers. Netflix is getting better at this. As of late 2025, 30% of their streaming runs on a newer compression method called AV1, the same picture at a third less data. They also strip film grain out before compressing, then rebuild it on your TV during playback. Saves over a third on file size for most content, and up to two-thirds for really grainy movies. The rebuilt grain looks solid. The tradeoff won't go away, though. Netflix has to deliver a file that works over spotty rural Wi-Fi and gigabit fiber, adjusting quality frame by frame to whatever your connection can handle. A disc reads plastic. Same quality every time.

TCL today unveiled its 2026 models. C8L (QM8L) and C7L (QM7L) feature 'super quantum dots', while RM9L and RM7L are its first LCD TVs with RGB LED. Highlights include Dolby Vision 2 Max, claims of 100% BT.2020 and four HDMI 2.1 ports. Full details here 👇🏼

Hisense 2025 @uhd4k TV picture settings are now available in my store. Check it out 🚀 share.google/iNuCvJRxQpoZHV…

Philips has unveiled its 2026 OLED lineup. These are the first OLED TVs with Dolby Vision 2 Max, in addition to a 2nd gen Tandem WOLED panel. There are also four HDMI 2.1 ports. The 8-series gets an upgraded OLED panel too. Everything you need to know👇🏼

@DenonAmerica 3 - this year I bought Star Wars E1: The Complete Edition and loving it!

Type your number in the comments: 1. I've been collecting CDs my entire life. 2. I just started collecting CDs this past year. 3. Collected when I was younger and have started to again recently. 3. My parents/friends have them but they're not for me. 4. What are CDs?

📃DOCUMENT📃 Samsung 2025 TV picture settings - HDR (SDR available as well). Evaluated on @SamsungTV 65QN90F @UHD4k TV: payhip.com/b/jSko3

Samsung 2025 TV picture settings for SDR content is now available in my store. HDR settings coming soon! payhip.com/b/PKfCv

@bugonline Čestitke! 🥳

400 brojeva Buga - još smo tu! (da, i nama je nevjerojatno…)

🚀VIDEO🚀 ⁦@SamsungTV⁩ 2025 ⁦@UHD4k⁩ TVs - recommended picture settings (tested on 65QN90F) youtu.be/-qJmBXg-gXY

🚨 Huge Panasonic TV News 🚨 “At its 2026 launch event, Panasonic announced a strategic partnership with China's Skyworth, which will take over production, sales and marketing of Panasonic TVs.” Source: flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subac… #Panasonic #China #TechNews

Blu-ray explained – How it works, why it beat HD-DVD, and why [Ultra HD] Blu-ray was the last physical media standard: obsoletesony.substack.com/p/blu-ray-expl… by @ObsoleteSony

🧘Easy Sunday video🧘 How to organize TV channels on LG TVs? Demonstrated on LG C5 ⁦@UHD4k⁩ OLED TV. youtu.be/BtI2hct-m08

How to get 4K 144 Hz on your Hisense TV? youtube.com/shorts/ZoRXviz…