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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 : les meilleures offres du jour chez Amazon, Boulanger, Fnac… en direct

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Par :Adam Langumier
9 janvier 2026 à 13:22

Les soldes d’hiver sont désormais bien lancées. Après une première journée marquée par 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.

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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La Fnac et Darty commencent fort les soldes d’hiver : voici les meilleures offres disponibles

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Par :Matthieu Fabris
7 janvier 2026 à 08:36

L’année 2025 a été particulièrement riche en périodes de promotions, se concluant même par un Black Friday étalé sur près d’un mois. 2026 démarre sur les chapeaux de roues avec les soldes d’hiver, qui se tiennent du mercredi 7 janvier 2026 à 8 heures jusqu’au mardi 3 février inclus. Une période idéale pour profiter de réductions sur les produits tech, dont nous vous proposons ici une sélection des meilleures offres.

Soldes d’hiver 2026 : voici tous les meilleurs deals de ce premier jour

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Par :Adam Langumier
7 janvier 2026 à 16:12

Ce mercredi 7 janvier marque officiellement le lancement des soldes d’hiver sur la grande majorité du territoire français. Pendant quatre semaines, les enseignes vont multiplier les promotions pour tenter de vous faire craquer. Ici, nous retenons uniquement les offres qui méritent réellement votre attention et votre argent, tout au long des démarques.

Top départ des soldes d’hiver 2026 : suivez toutes les meilleures offres en direct

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Par :Adam Langumier
7 janvier 2026 à 07:00

Ce mercredi 7 janvier marque officiellement le lancement des soldes d’hiver sur la grande majorité du territoire français. Pendant quatre semaines, les enseignes vont multiplier les promotions pour tenter de vous faire craquer. Ici, nous retenons uniquement les offres qui méritent réellement votre attention et votre argent, tout au long des démarques.

Corporation for Public Broadcasting To Shut Down After 58 Years

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Par :BeauHD
6 janvier 2026 à 00:22
After Congress approved President Donald Trump's rescission package eliminating federal funding, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting voted to dissolve after 58 years, rather than continue to exist and potentially be "vulnerable to future political manipulation or misuse." The shutdown leaves hundreds of local public TV and radio stations facing an uncertain future. Variety reports: The CPB was created by Congress by the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 to support the federal government's investment in public broadcasting. The org noted that the rescission of all of CPB's federal funding came after years of political attacks. "For more than half a century, CPB existed to ensure that all Americans -- regardless of geography, income, or background -- had access to trusted news, educational programming, and local storytelling," said CPB president/CEO Patricia Harrison. "When the Administration and Congress rescinded federal funding, our Board faced a profound responsibility: CPB's final act would be to protect the integrity of the public media system and the democratic values by dissolving, rather than allowing the organization to remain defunded and vulnerable to additional attacks. [...] "CPB's support extends to every corner of the country -- urban, rural, tribal, and everywhere in between," the org noted. "In many communities, public media stations are the only free source of trusted news, educational children's programming, and local and national cultural content." The CPB said that without funding, its board determined that "maintaining the corporation as a nonfunctional entity would not serve the public interest or advance the goals of public media. A dormant and defunded CPB could have become vulnerable to future political manipulation or misuse, threatening the independence of public media and the trust audiences place in it, and potentially subjecting staff and board members to legal exposure from bad-faith actors." As it closes, CPB is distributing its remaining funds, and also supporting the American Archive of Public Broadcasting in digitizing and preserving historic content. The CPB's own archives will be preserved at the University of Maryland, which will make it accessible to the public. "Public media remains essential to a healthy democracy," Harrison added. "Our hope is that future leaders and generations will recognize its value, defend its independence, and continue the work of ensuring that trustworthy, educational, and community-centered media remains accessible to all Americans."

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MTV's Music-Only Channels Go Off the Air

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Par :msmash
2 janvier 2026 à 23:31
An anonymous reader shares a report: MTV shut down many of its last dedicated 24-hour music channels Dec. 31. The move, announced back in October, affected channels around the world, with the U.K. seeing five different MTV stations going dark. These include MTV Music, MTV 80s, MTV 90s, Club MTV, and MTV Live. As Consequence notes, MTV Music -- which launched in 2011 -- notably ended its run by airing the Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star," the first visual to air when MTV launched in the United States in 1981. MTV's parent company, Paramount Skydance, is also expected to shutter music-only channels in Australia, Poland, France, and Brazil. Despite axing much of its dedicated music programming, MTV's flagship channels are still expected to keep broadcasting in the U.K. and elsewhere. Like in the U.S., these channels primarily air massively popular reality programs, as opposed to music videos.

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Americans Are Watching Fewer New TV Shows and More Free TV

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Par :msmash
29 décembre 2025 à 19:26
Americans are settling into streaming habits that should worry Hollywood executives, as new Nielsen data analyzed by Bloomberg reveals that not a single new original series cracked the top 10 most-watched streaming shows in 2025 -- the first time this has happened since Nielsen began publishing streaming data in 2020. The shift extends beyond original programming as free, ad-supported streaming services are growing faster than their paid counterparts. YouTube has become the most-watched streaming service on American televisions, now larger than Netflix and Amazon combined. The Roku Channel and Tubi have nearly doubled in size over the past two years, while Peacock and Warner Bros.' streaming services have stagnated at roughly half their free competitors' viewership share. Netflix still dominates when it comes to hits, accounting for about two-thirds of original programs appearing in Nielsen's weekly top 10 lists. But that dominance is eroding -- the company's share of streaming viewership has fallen below 20%. Meanwhile, Disney's streaming services haven't increased their share of TV viewing in three years, and Amazon is closing in. The most-watched original series of 2025 was Squid Game's final season, followed by returning shows Wednesday and Love Island.

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Voici comment accéder aux catégories Netfix cachées avec ces codes secrets

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Par :Julien Cadot
28 décembre 2025 à 17:04

Quand on pense à Netflix, on a tout de suite à l'esprit la puissance de l'algorithme de recommandation de la plateforme de SVOD. Vous n'allez pas souvent chercher quelque chose sur Netflix : on vous sert votre prochaine série TV sur la page d'accueil. Mais saviez-vous qu'il existait un moyen d'explorer l'immense catalogue de Netflix catégorie par catégorie ? On vous explique comment trouver ces catégories cachées.

Pluribus : les 7 questions que l’on se pose après la fin de la saison 1

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Par :Nicolas Lellouche
26 décembre 2025 à 17:10

Après Severance, Apple TV continue d'exceller dans les séries à mystères avec Pluribus, la nouvelle création de Vince Gilligan (Breaking Bad et Better Call Saul). La saison 1, qui s'est achevée le 24 décembre avec un très bon épisode, nous laisse malgré tout sur notre faim. L'histoire n'a pas beaucoup avancé et l'attente pour la saison 2 s'annonce longue.

Cadeaux de Noël : nos idées de dernière minute quand les magasins sont déjà fermés

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Par :Adam Langumier
24 décembre 2025 à 17:00

Il est 18 heures, le 24 décembre, mais vous vous rappelez qu’il manque un cadeau dans l’équation. Pas de panique, on vous a fait une sélection de vrais cadeaux qui peuvent être posés sous le sapin ce soir, à la dernière minute.

Samsung's 2026 Gaming Monitors Promise 6K, 3D, and Up To 1,040Hz

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Par :msmash
23 décembre 2025 à 19:44
An anonymous reader shares a report: Samsung is breaking new ground with its 2026 lineup of gaming monitors, with the Odyssey 3D G90XH becoming the first to feature a 6K display with "glasses-free 3D." The new monitor comes with a 32-inch IPS panel, offering real-time eye-tracking that "adjusts depth and perspective" based on your position, along with a speedy 165Hz refresh rate that you can boost to 330Hz with a Dual Mode feature that switches to 3K. [...] A 6K 3D display isn't the only notable upgrade coming to Samsung's lineup; the company is launching the Odyssey G6 G60H, which it says is the "world's first" 1,040Hz gaming monitor. The 27-inch monitor only supports this ultra-fast refresh rate in HD, while its native 1440p resolution still offers speeds up to a very fast 600Hz. It's also compatible with AMD FreeSync Premium and NVIDIA G-Sync.

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2025 Was the Beginning of the End of the TV Brightness War

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Par :msmash
19 décembre 2025 à 18:11
The television industry's brightness war may have hit its inflection point in 2025, the year TCL and Hisense released the first consumer TVs capable of 5,000 nits under specific settings -- a figure that would have seemed absurd not long ago when manufacturers struggled to reach 2,000 nits. LG introduced Primary RGB Tandem OLED technology, moving from a three-stack panel design to a four-stack red-blue-green-blue configuration that the company claims can achieve 4,000 nits. The technology appears in the LG G5, Panasonic Z95B and Philips OLED950 and OLED910. RGB mini-LED also emerged as a new category. The technology uses individual small red, green and blue LED backlights instead of white or blue LEDs paired with quantum dots. Hisense demonstrated it at CES 2025, TCL announced its Q10M for China, and Samsung unveiled its own version called micro-RGB. These sets range from $12,000 to $30,000. Sony has confirmed it will debut RGB TV technology in spring 2026. HDR content is currently mastered at a maximum of 4,000 nits. The situation echoes the audio industry's loudness war, The Verge points out, which peaked with Metallica's heavily compressed Death Magnetic in 2008.

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Bridgerton saison 4 : une photo inattendue affole les fans

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Par :Nelly Lesage
17 décembre 2025 à 08:30

De nouvelles images de la saison 4 de La Chronique des Bridgerton ont été diffusées par l'intermédiaire du média Entertainment Weekly. Si l'on y retrouve le couple central de cette saison, Benedict et Sophie, une autre image plus surprenante retient particulièrement l'attention.

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