All posts tagged: TVs

LG Kicks Off Summer Sale With Big Deals on Monitors, TVs, and Appliances

LG Kicks Off Summer Sale With Big Deals on Monitors, TVs, and Appliances

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LG is hosting a big savings event on its website this week, with deals on monitors, TVs, home appliances, and more. LG’s discounts have been automatically applied and do not require any discount codes or special memberships. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with LG. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the site running. Highlights of the event include up to $500 off select LG monitors and up to $1,500 off LG’s best TV sets. If you’re planning to buy multiple monitors, LG is offering an extra 5 percent off your order with select models. TVs Monitors Appliances If you’re on the hunt for more discounts, be sure to visit our Apple Deals roundup where we recap the best Apple-related bargains of the past week. Deals Newsletter Interested in hearing more about the best deals you can find in 2026? Sign up for our Deals Newsletter and we’ll keep you updated so you don’t miss the biggest deals of the season! Popular …

Your TV’s RS-232 port is a versatile automation tool – how to unlock its full potential

Your TV’s RS-232 port is a versatile automation tool – how to unlock its full potential

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Adam Breeden/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Most TV ports go unnoticed once everything is plugged in — except perhaps HDMI and USB. But for advanced users, the RS-232 serial port can be a powerful tool for fine-tuned home theater and smart device control. Also: I found 7 low-cost ways to make my TV sound a lot better (even without a soundbar) With some patience and more than a little know-how, you can create a fully automated home entertainment system with timed content, simultaneous broadcasts to multiple rooms, and even diagnostic testing.   What is an RS-232 serial port, and what does it do? Take a peek at the back of your TV, and you may see — among the familiar HDMI and USB connections — an odd 9-pin port that doesn’t match any cable you have in the house (and may look familiar if you used a printer back in the 1990s). This is your TV’s RS-232 serial port, normally reserved for connecting professional calibration and diagnostic tools.  Technicians …

TV’s Casting Directors Betting on Unknowns

TV’s Casting Directors Betting on Unknowns

Published by Daniella Wilson

In the age of social media, casting directors still have managed to find industry newcomers with relative digital obscurity and turn them into bona fide stars overnight. “It’s exciting to see new actors that you haven’t necessarily seen before,” says Lucy Bevan, who teamed with Emily Brockmann for the second time (the first was on Game of Thrones) to cast A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. “As an audience member, you feel like you are discovering them for yourself.” There are few shows that have been as successful in introducing new faces as HBO’s medical marvel The Pitt. In what they described as “the great experiment,” because of the show’s unprecedented single-shift format, casting directors Cathy Sandrich Gelfond and Erica Berger — who won an Emmy for their work on season one — were given carte blanche to cast more than 250 roles in the fictional Pittsburgh ER. “Everybody across the board said, ‘Just find the best possible actors for these parts,’ and that’s a casting director’s dream come true,” Berger says. Given the show’s …

Your TV’s Sound Is Bad. These Free Fixes Make It Noticeably Better

Your TV’s Sound Is Bad. These Free Fixes Make It Noticeably Better

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The dirty secret of the modern TV industry is that picture quality has never been better and audio quality has arguably never been worse. As displays have gotten impossibly thin and engineering resources have poured into panel technology and processing, the speakers have gotten smaller, weaker and increasingly pointed away from the person trying to watch. The result is breathtaking visuals paired with audio that can make dialogue hard to follow and action sequences sound like they’re happening in another room. The good news is that a few settings adjustments can help, and every one of them is free. There’s no setting that will magically transform your TV’s audio into movie theater sound. Physics is at play, and the tiny speakers in skinny modern TVs just can’t create quality audio. However, there are some settings and other tricks that might help.  TV settings for better sound TV manufacturers know that bad sound is one of the biggest complaints people have about modern TVs. They’ve added audio processing features — some good, some bad — to …

Nvidia doesn’t make TVs, but it made the best thing you can plug into one

Nvidia doesn’t make TVs, but it made the best thing you can plug into one

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Nvidia does more than make AI chips. While it’s true that their chips power the data centers that run most of the large language models (which you can now run locally) for OpenAI for ChatGPT, Anthropic for Claude and others, Nvidia also makes the Tegra X1+ processor which has an insane 256-core GPU and is used to power a device that I’ve been using in my living room for years for all of my TV watching needs. It’s a device that you can still buy today if you want the very best in streaming, TV apps (though be aware of data collection), and even gaming. There were two versions of the SHIELD TV. The “tube” base model, which I own and has been discontinued, has the same internals as the console-style Pro model, which is the one you can buy today. This streaming device has impressive capabilities, and it’s been the hub of my living room for several years now. Related I plugged a Raspberry Pi into my smart TV and it changed how I …

Best Amazon Memorial Day deals 2026: TVs, Bose earbuds, Jackery power stations, and more

Best Amazon Memorial Day deals 2026: TVs, Bose earbuds, Jackery power stations, and more

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The long Memorial Day weekend is here. And like every other major calendar event, Amazon has jumped on the celebrations with a sale. And — as is often the case with Amazon sales events — the savings are steep and wide-ranging. To keep the deals seasonal, Amazon’s Memorial Day sale has seen prices drop on summer-themed items, including portable power stations, TVs worthy of every MLB and World Cup game, and stacks of camping gear. There are also excellent deals for home upgrades, from the kitchen to the backyard — everything you need to get the summer party going. As we enjoy the holiday weekend, here are the best Amazon Memorial Day deals to shop across all categories. Grab them now and leave the summer open for relaxation and fun. Best TV deal $849.99 at Amazon $1,399.99 Save $550   Why we like it Upgraded TV models for 2026 have officially hit shelves this spring and you can already score a sweet deal on one of Hisense’s new mid-range options: the U6 Pro. It packs …

does reality TV’s duty of care support participants – or the industry?

does reality TV’s duty of care support participants – or the industry?

Published by Sam Flores

A BBC Panorama investigation has revealed serious allegations of assault on Channel 4’s hit reality show, Married at First Sight. Three women who took part in the programme say they were raped or sexually assaulted by their on-screen “husbands” during filming. They have alleged that both Channel 4 and the production company CPL failed in their duty of care obligations to protect them. According to the BBC, Channel 4 was aware of some of the allegations before broadcast. The accounts are deeply troubling. They also prompt concerns about why the industry’s extensive welfare protocols may not have been enough to prevent these alleged incidents from happening. As someone who has studied the experiences of participants in documentary television, I argue that not only are the duty of care procedures not adequate in protecting contributors, they might actually be helping to enable risky programme formats to continue. In Married at First Sight, women meet their husbands for the first time in a mock wedding ceremony. They are then propelled into an intimate relationship on an accelerated …

‘Margo’s Got Money Troubles’ Won TV’s OnlyFans Wars

‘Margo’s Got Money Troubles’ Won TV’s OnlyFans Wars

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Margo Millet specializes in “constructive, recreational appendage analysis,” and for $20 on OnlyFans, she will tell you what Pokémon your penis most resembles and what attacks it might have. Artfully detailing strangers’ private parts on the internet is not exactly the kind of work the protagonist of Margo’s Got Money Troubles dreamed of doing when she was little, but she’s strapped for cash, parenting solo, and has an uncanny gift for it (such as: “Your Bulbasaur’s special move is Ooze Attack, extremely potent pre-cum”). Before long, and with 200 new followers, Margo has learned her first lesson: “The ones that hate their dicks, they tip the most.” TV has never shied away from portrayals of sex workers and the business of porn, but Apple TV’s adaptation of Rufi Thorpe’s 2024 novel of the same name, provides one of its most complex. The show’s season finale aired May 20. OnlyFans is now its own subgenre in pop culture. A decade since it launched, and with more than 4 million creators on the platform, the adult content …

Apple TV’s ‘super addictive’ thriller Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed is your next TV obsession

Apple TV’s ‘super addictive’ thriller Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed is your next TV obsession

Published by Daniella Wilson

Looking for a twisty dark comedy to sink your teeth into this week? Apple TV has just released the new ten-part thriller, Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed. As a huge New Girl fan, I’ll watch anything starring Jake Johnson – but the cast isn’t the only reason why I’ll be tuning into the show this week. This tense, darkly comic thriller sounds seriously binge-worthy.  © Apple TVTatiana Maslany stars in Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed Created by David J. Rosen (Sugar), the story follows a newly divorced woman (Tatiana Maslany) who, in the midst of a custody battle, connects with a camboy online and becomes embroiled in a dangerous web of blackmail and murder. The series kicked off with a two-episode premiere on 20 May, with new episodes dropping weekly after that. If you’re like me and prefer to binge the whole thing in one sitting, you might want to wait until the finale drops on 15 July. Keep reading to find out more. What is Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed about?  The story follows Paula, a newly divorced fact-checker, as she …