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Reçu — 22 janvier 2026 ⏭

What a Sony and TCL Partnership Means For the Future of TVs

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Par : msmash
22 janvier 2026 à 16:08
How would Sony ceding control of its TV hardware business change the industry? The Verge has an optimistic take: [...] As of today, Sony already relies on different manufacturing partners to create its TV lineup. While display panel manufacturers never reveal who they sell panels to, Sony is likely already using panels for its LCD TVs from TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology (CSOT), in addition to OLED panels from LG Display and Samsung Display. With this deal, a relationship between Sony and TCL CSOT LCD panels is guaranteed (although I doubt this would affect CSOT selling panels to other manufacturers). And with TCL CSOT building a new OLED facility, there's a potential future in which Sony OLEDs will also get panels from TCL. Although I should point out that we're not sure yet if the new facility will have the ability to make TV-sized OLED panels, at least to start. [...] There's some concern from fans that this could lead to a Sharp, Toshiba, or Pioneer situation where the names are licensed and the TVs produced are a shell of what the brands used to represent. I don't see this happening with Sony. While the electronics side of the business hasn't been as strong as in the past, Sony -- and Bravia -- is still a storied brand. It would take a lot for Sony to completely step aside and allow another company to slap its name on an inferior product. And based on TCL's growth and technological improvements over the past few years, and the shrinking gap between premium and midrange TVs, I don't expect Sony TVs will suffer from a partnership with TCL.

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Bouygues dévoile b.tv, un décodeur TV qui promet une belle image grâce à l’IA

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Par : Lisa Imperatrice
22 janvier 2026 à 10:33

Bouygues Telecom a dévoilé, le 22 janvier 2026, son nouveau décodeur b.tv, présenté comme le premier décodeur TV d’un opérateur français avec une qualité d’image améliorée grâce à l’IA.

Reçu — 21 janvier 2026 ⏭

Soldes d’hiver : les prix continuent de baisser pour la 3ᵉ démarque, voici les meilleurs deals

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Par : Adam Langumier
21 janvier 2026 à 08:59

La troisième démarque des soldes d’hiver vient de démarrer, avec de nouvelles baisses chez la plupart des enseignes. Reste que tous les rabais affichés ne sont pas forcément de bonnes affaires. Numerama sélectionne ici les meilleurs deals repérés en ligne, en direct.

Reçu — 19 janvier 2026 ⏭

Netflix Wants Plots Explained Multiple Times Because Viewers Are on Their Phones, Matt Damon Says

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Par : msmash
19 janvier 2026 à 17:08
Netflix has begun asking filmmakers to adjust their storytelling approach to account for viewers who are scrolling through their phones while watching, according to Matt Damon. The traditional action movie formula involves three major set pieces distributed across the first, second, and third acts. Netflix now wants a large action sequence in the opening five minutes to hook viewers. The streamer has also suggested that filmmakers reiterate plot points "three or four times in the dialogue" to accommodate distracted audiences, he said. "It's going to really start to infringe on how we're telling these stories," Damon said.

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Quels sont les meilleurs TV en promotion pour les soldes d’hiver ? Notre TOP 5

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Par : Adam Langumier
19 janvier 2026 à 13:29

La seconde démarque des soldes fait baisser les prix sur une foule de produits tech, et les téléviseurs ne font pas exception. Numerama a donc regroupé ici les meilleures promos repérées en ligne.

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Reçu — 16 janvier 2026 ⏭

Ce très grand TV OLED de Samsung perd plus de 1 000 € de son prix pour les soldes

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Par : Matthieu Fabris
16 janvier 2026 à 13:01

[Deal du jour] Vous n'avez plus le temps d'aller au cinéma ? Pourquoi ne pas investir dans un très grand écran pour profiter de vos films et séries ? Ce grand modèle de Samsung est en soldes.

Soldes d’hiver : voici tous les meilleurs deals de la deuxième démarque en direct

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Par : Adam Langumier
16 janvier 2026 à 09:34

Depuis le 7 janvier, les soldes battent leur plein chez plusieurs enseignes. Comme à l’accoutumée, tous les prix barrés ne cachent pas nécessairement de bonnes affaires. Numerama fait ici le tri des meilleures offres repérées en ligne, en direct.

Amazon Is Making a Fallout Shelter Competition Reality TV Show

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Par : BeauHD
16 janvier 2026 à 02:02
Amazon is expanding the Fallout universe with Fallout Shelter, a ten-episode reality competition show where contestants face survival-style challenges and moral dilemmas for a cash prize. Engadget reports: Prime Video has greenlit a unscripted reality show titled Fallout Shelter. It will be a ten-episode run with Studio Lambert, the team behind reality projects including Squid Game: The Challenge and The Traitors, as its primary producer. Bethesda Game Studios' head honcho Todd Howard is attached as an executive producer. Amazon's description of Fallout Shelter is: "Across a series of escalating challenges, strategic dilemmas and moral crossroads, contestants must prove their ingenuity, teamwork and resilience as they compete for safety, power and ultimately a huge cash prize." [...] The name echos the free-to-play mobile game Bethesda released in 2015. Fallout Shelter lets people build and improve their out Vault-Tec residence, managing the resources for a growing cadre of underground survivors. It seems pretty likely that there will be some type of tie-in between the game and the show, but any details about that might pop up closer to when the program is ready to air. It's currently casting, and no release timeline has been shared.

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Reçu — 14 janvier 2026 ⏭

À la fois téléviseur et tableau, The Frame s’affiche en promotion pour les soldes

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Par : Matthieu Fabris
14 janvier 2026 à 16:03

[Deal du jour] The Frame est un téléviseur qui arbore l’apparence d’un tableau, et qui peut afficher une œuvre d’art lorsqu’il est en veille. Le plus beau téléviseur du marché est moins cher pendant les soldes d'hiver.

Soldes d’hiver : les meilleures promos de la 2e démarque chez Amazon, Fnac, Boulanger…

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Par : Adam Langumier
14 janvier 2026 à 09:05

Les soldes d’hiver entrent dans leur deuxième démarque. Après les premières grosses promos, les enseignes commencent à baisser encore certains prix et à sortir de nouvelles offres. Comme d’habitude, Numerama fait le tri. Ici, vous ne trouverez que les promos sur des produits vraiment intéressants, ceux qui méritent réellement votre argent.

Reçu — 12 janvier 2026 ⏭

Batman TV Series Premiered 60 Years Ago Today

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Par : msmash
12 janvier 2026 à 18:45
60 years ago today, ABC aired the first episode of its live-action Batman television series, introducing Adam West as the deadpan Caped Crusader in what became a pop culture phenomenon blending high-camp humor and cliffhanger thrills. The mid-season replacement ran for 120 episodes over three seasons before ending in March 1968.

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Streamer Spend To Top $100B For First Time In 2026

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Par : msmash
12 janvier 2026 à 14:03
Streamer spend on content is set to top the $100 billion mark for the first time this year, according to an Ampere Analysis report. From a report: The landmark figure will be met as global streamers "remain the primary driver of growth in content investment," according to Ampere. Spend by the likes of Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video, HBO Max, Paramount+ and Apple TV will shoot up 6% this year, helping lead to a 2% increase in overall global content spend, Ampere forecast. The $101 billion figure, the first time streamer spend has crossed that major $100 Billion landmark, will represent around two-fifths of the overall figure.

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Reçu — 10 janvier 2026 ⏭

AirPods, Xbox Ally, TV LG… le TOP 5 des meilleurs deals de la 1ère démarque des soldes d’hiver

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Par : Adam Langumier
10 janvier 2026 à 12:30

Les soldes battent leur plein depuis le 7 janvier 2026. Si la première démarque n’est pas toujours synonyme de remises spectaculaires, elle réserve déjà quelques très bonnes surprises. Numerama a regroupé ici les 5 meilleurs deals de la première semaine des soldes d’hiver.

Reçu — 8 janvier 2026 ⏭

The Gap Between Premium and Budget TV Brands is Quickly Closing

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Par : msmash
8 janvier 2026 à 21:30
The long-standing hierarchy in the TV market -- Sony, Samsung and LG at the top, TCL and Hisense fighting it out in the midrange -- is eroding as the budget brands close the performance gap and increasingly lead on technology innovation, The Verge writes. Hisense debuted the first RGB LED TV last year, and TCL's X11L announced at CES 2026 is the first TV to use reformulated quantum dots and a new color filter. TCL's QM9K release last year was "a pretty clear statement that they're ready to fight with the big boys." The premium brands retain certain advantages: Sony's processing remains unmatched and LG's OLEDs deliver contrast that mini LED cannot match. "Even as the gap in performance across technologies continues to shrink, and TVs from all the manufacturers get closer to parity, the challenge for TCL and Hisense shifts from creating incredible, competitive products to altering perception," The Verge notes. Samsung once owned the art TV segment entirely; CES 2026 saw announcements from Amazon's Ember Artline and LG's Gallery TV, all using similar edge-lit technology and magnetic frames. The experience across brands is "remarkably similar." If the pricing gap persists and performance remains comparable, "the big three will have to respond by bringing their pricing down or risk losing sales," the publication concluded.

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TV Makers Are Taking AI Too Far

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Par : msmash
8 janvier 2026 à 19:24
TV manufacturers at CES 2026 in Las Vegas this week unveiled a wave of AI features that frequently consume significant screen space and take considerable time to deliver results -- all while global TV shipments declined 0.6% year over year in Q3, according to Omdia. Google demonstrated Veo generating video from a photo on a television, a process that took about two minutes to produce eight seconds of footage, The Verge writes in a column. Samsung presented a future where viewers ask their sets for sports predictions and recipes to share with kitchen displays. Hisense showed an AI agent that displays real-time stats for every soccer player on screen, a feature requiring so much space the company built a prototype 21:9 aspect ratio display to accommodate it. Demos repeatedly showed video shrinking to make room for sports scores and information when viewers asked questions -- noticeable on 70-inch displays and likely worse on anything 50 inches or smaller. Amazon's Alexa Plus can jump to Prime Video scenes based on verbal descriptions. LG's sets switch homescreen recommendations based on voice recognition of individual family members.

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How Did TVs Get So Cheap?

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Par : msmash
8 janvier 2026 à 15:25
A 50-inch TV that would have set you back $1,100 at Best Buy during Black Friday 2001 now costs less than $200, and the price per area-pixel -- a metric accounting for both screen size and resolution -- has dropped by more than 90% over the past 25 years. The story behind this decline is largely one of liquid crystal display technology maturing from a niche product to a mass-manufactured commodity. LCDs represented just 5% of the TV market in 2004; by 2018, they commanded more than 95%. The largest driver of cost reduction has been the scaling up of "mother glass" sheets -- the large panels of extremely clear glass onto which semiconductor materials are deposited before being cut into individual displays. The first generation sheets measured roughly 12 by 16 inches. Today's Generation 10.5 sheets span 116 by 133 inches, nearly 100 times the original area. This scaling delivers substantial savings because equipment costs rise more slowly than glass area increases. Moving from Gen 4 to Gen 5 mother glass cut the cost per diagonal inch by 50%. Equipment costs per unit of panel area fell 80% between Gen 4 and Gen 8. Process improvements have compounded these gains: masking steps required for thin-film transistors dropped from eight to four, yields climbed from 50% to above 90%, and a "one drop fill" technique reduced liquid crystal filling time from days to minutes.

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Disney+ To Add Vertical Videos In Push To Boost Daily Engagement

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Par : msmash
8 janvier 2026 à 14:44
Disney+, which is looking to catch up with some streaming and digital rivals in terms of daily engagement, is adding vertical videos to the service. From a report: The arrival of the new format later this year was one of several advertising-oriented announcements the company made Wednesday at its Tech + Data Showcase at CES in Las Vegas. Other new offerings include a new "brand impact" metric and a new video generation tool that helps advertisers create high-quality connected-TV-ready commercials using existing assets and guidelines. [...] In an interview prior to the Wednesday showcase, Erin Teague, EVP of Product Management for Disney Entertainment and ESPN, said "everything's on the table" in terms of how vertical video is delivered on Disney+. It could be original short-form programming, repurposed social clips, refashioned scenes from longer-form episodic or feature titles or a combination. "We're obviously thinking about integrating vertical video in ways that are native to core user behaviors," Teague said. "So, it won't be a kind of a disjointed, random experience."

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Soldes d’hiver : voici tous les deals de la première démarque à ne pas manquer

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Par : Adam Langumier
12 janvier 2026 à 10:09

Les soldes d’hiver sont désormais bien lancées. Après les offres de lancement, les enseignes continuent d’ajuster leurs prix et de dégainer de nouvelles promotions. Numerama fait le tri pour ne retenir que les offres réellement intéressantes, celles qui valent vraiment votre argent.

Reçu — 7 janvier 2026 ⏭

The Inevitable Rise of the Art TV

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Par : msmash
7 janvier 2026 à 18:39
Several years after Samsung introduced the Frame TV in 2017 -- a television designed to display fine art and resemble a framed painting when switched off -- competitors are finally catching up in meaningful numbers. Amazon announced the Ember Artline TV at CES 2026 this week, a $899 model that can display one of 2,000 works of art for free and includes an Alexa AI tool to recommend pieces suited to your room. Hisense unveiled its CanvasTV late last year, TCL has the NXTvision model, and LG has announced the Gallery TV for later this year. The surge in art-focused televisions comes down to two factors: smaller living spaces in cities where younger buyers lack dedicated rooms for large screens, and advances in matte screen technology that enable displays to absorb light like a canvas rather than reflect it like a window. Local dimming and improved backlighting processing allow these newer models to maintain their slim profiles for flush wall-mounting while delivering more realistic art reproduction than earlier edge-lit designs.

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