…65” OLED. He extolled the virtues of the 65” C4 ($4299) and G4 ($6299), never mentioning the B4. When I said I only had around $3,000 to spend, he recommended a 75” LG QNED86. I asked about other OLEDs and was told Sony made a Bravia 8 closer to $3800….
…Samsung (that works best with Samsung phones and its Scalable Codec), AirPods (for Apple), Bose, Bower and Wilkins, Sennheiser, JBL, Beats, Sony and heaps of generic brands. They are class leaders in the <$400 bracket, although Sony WF-100XM5 on runout at $369 is tempting. Google Pixel Buds Pro 2 wins…
…advertising and data brokers for whatever purpose they could find. One of the earliest ACR providers was Samba TV, which is still available on Sony, Panasonic, and many other TVs (you can disable it). Suffice it to say that every TV manufacturer uses the chip to collect viewing data. By…
…Find X5 Pro or iPhone 14 Plus, is around 130. At the time, it was also $1500+. At 115, it joins the Samsung Galaxy S21 series and iPhone 11. It is well above the Samsung A35/55. It is still very good. The primary sensor is a Sony LYTIA 700C. This…
…Samsung A35/55. It is still very good. The primary sensor is a Sony LYTIA 700C. This new tech uses a smaller sensor but combines more pixels in its binning. It also has better low-light capability and a new multi-frame HDR that combines a bracket of shots to improve details in…
…but the primary sensor does all the work. It is a 50MP Omnivision OVX8000 (essentially an OV50E) with OIS, which Xiaomi has only used. The 8MP Ultrawide Sony IMX355 is limited to fixed focus, and the 2MP fixed focus GalaxyCore GC02M1 is for bokeh depth. The secret sauce is the…
…Sensor Sony IMX374/We suspect it is a 16MP binned to 4MP Sony IMX471 Focus FF/FF f-stop 2.2/1.8 um 1.22/1 bins to 2 FOV (stated, actual) 75 to 87.6° Stabilisation No Flash Screen fill/No Zoom No/No Video max Not disclosed – expect 4K@60/not…
…bins to 12 Sensor Likely, Sony IMX787 60MP cropped to 48MP, as used in the Pixel 8a and 7a. Focus Dual Pixel PDAF Multi-zone laser AF f-stop 1.7 um 0.8 FOV° (stated, actual) 82 (70.5 – 82.9) Stabilisation OIS/EIS Zoom Rear 2 Ultrawide/macro…
…OLEDs from LG and Sony and mini-LEDs from LG, Sony, TCL, and Hisense support DV and DA. Samsung does not support DV downscales it to the vastly inferior HDR10. Regardless of the generic TV makers’ claim, edge-lit and direct-lit LED/LCD TVs cannot accurately reproduce DV content. Pro Needs 1000nits or…
…feature/value equation is hard to beat. Sony’s Bravia 9 (2800/1512 dimming zones) will outperform the Hisense U8NAU but at almost twice the price. Sony Bravia 7 (2000 nits/480 dimming zones) versus Hisense U8NAU (2800 nits/1600 dimming zones)—We have not reviewed Sony yet but saw it at the launch, and Hisense…
…is well-finished and well-made and should last the distance expected of brand-name TVs—at least ten years. That, however, is entirely dependent on TV Operating system updates and security patches. Hisense has committed to upgrading this to VIDAA 8, which is significantly less than LG, Samsung, Sony, and TCL’s four OS…
…excellent, especially for the price I compared them to the top-of-the-range Sennheiser Momentum 4 True Wireless BT/ANC earphones – can’t get better and Sony WF-1000XM5 – are these the best noise-cancelling earphones ever? The Sennheiser Momentum 4 has superior, audiophile-grade sound and a range of Qualcomm aptX codecs. Its strength…
