The new 2023 Akai 22S7TNS series will be powered by Samsung’s Tizen smart TV Operating System. What does that mean to you? Tizen is Samsung’s smart TV OS and competes mainly with LG webOS22, Google TV, Hisense VIDAA, Roku, and some generic TV OS. It fundamentally defines two things: First…
…TV 4K or Fire TV Cube 4K. Room tuning Charcoal or Glacier White $329 Website Warranty 12-months CyberShack Amazon Alexa news and reviews Note: This is the 2022 model, and there are many poor reviews for the earlier model, including no Hi-Res availability here (Amazon HD), Dolby Atmos only via…
…at the latter first. Fire TV OS The strength of any TV OS – be it LG webOS, Samsung Tizen, Google Android TV and more – is its App availability. In Australia, we want, at a minimum: Digital TV 10, 9, 7, 2, SBS Streaming: Amazon Prime, Netflix, Disney+, Paramount+,…
The $799.95 Bose Smart Soundbar 600 joins the Bose soundbar family that caters for simple TV speaker replacement to the top-of-the-range $1399.95 Smart Soundbar 900. Now Bose doesn’t reveal many specifications – a real pain for reviewers, so this is the first look. We reserve the right to make changes….
LG has an early Xmas gift for its 4 and 8K TV models from 2018 to 2022, running webOS 4.0 to webOS 2022. Users can get a 3-month Apple TV+ 3-month. Of course, it is meant to promote Apple TV+ (website here), but it is worth nearly $30 if you…
…night vision. The rechargeable battery removes from the camera and charges at the hub, so consider this when selecting mounting positions. The NVR Hub is quite cool! HDMI port for connection to a TV or Monitor for setup (menus) and live view LAN port for connection to the router –…
…Direct LED W830K: 32” RRP $645 Google (Android) TV Google TV is the latest version of Android TV, and It is a nice layout with more intelligence to help recommend based on what you have watched. It has OK Google, and the searches are not influenced by a store trying…
…laptop may draw 65-100W, a LED light bulb 5W or a TV 300W etc. These feature USB-C and USB-A ports and can fast-charge from a standard 240V socket in under 2 hours. The App or a readout shows battery percentage/time left, Input and output wattages. Solar panels can charge in…
…your Sonos multi-room speaker setup. Superb. Chromecast with Google TV HD – great smart features at a lower price Chromecast with Google TV 4K (review) Why? These are wonderful travelling companions – smart Android TV in dongle. Perfect. Honourable mention NVIDIA SHIELD TV Pro – Android/Plex media centre (review) NVIDIA…
…(network review). If you only have Wi-Fi 6, it will get 2400Mbps full-duplex or Wi-Fi 5 AC, 433Mbps half-duplex. Special mention needs to be made of the full audio/video/data/charge USB-C 3.1 Gen 1 5Gbps port. That means alt DP 1.4 for USB-C to HDMI cable for a 4K TV, full…
…deal maker for anyone that wants to access fast, mountable storage or use USB-C/HDMI to a TV. Flip’s Qi charge is almost a deal maker for me, but conversely, Moto supplies a charger, and Samsung does not. Razr’s larger external screen is far more useful and saves me from opening…
…TV, AirPods and any Apple product or service with iCloud links. Apple’s claim “You can always turn off device analytics.” On Apple’s device analytics and privacy legal page, the company says no information collected from a device for analytics purposes is traceable to a specific user. iPhone Analytics may include…