#hdr

#hdr

One of the QM8K's most striking features is the complete lack of bezels, giving your entertainment stand a modern and distinctive look. With the included pedestal mount, it almost looks like it's floating, a neat trick for such a well-priced television. While there may be some personal preference when it comes to the interface, we generally feel that Google TV is one of the better options right now, and it supports both Chromecast and Airplay 2, so Apple folks won't feel left out.

Much like the audio industry's compression-driven loudness war, which reached its distortion-fueled apex (and not the good kind) with Metallica's Death Magnetic in 2008, the television industry has been having its own battle the past couple of years: the brightness war. Sparked by the introduction of HDR and its higher brightness mastering levels, brands began to push display technology to achieve the necessary light output for HDR movies.

If you're after a modest-sized screen that still delivers on both visuals and sound, here's some good news. The 2025 model of Samsung's 40-inch Full HD F6000 Smart TV is currently available on Amazon for just $148, thanks to a 25% discount. It normally retails for close $200, so this deal is taking a good chunk off the price, making the upgrade much more affordable.

The MNN 15.6-inch portable monitor delivers Full HD resolution and plug-and-play convenience in an ultra-slim package that fits easily into backpacks. Amazon has dropped the price to $58 from the usual $89, hitting a record low that explains why over 10,000 units have already sold at this price. The combination of great IPS display quality and multi-device compatibility at budget pricing makes this one of the best portable monitor deals available.

The HDR is still the most powerful and most popular pick for Warzone in Season 6. The recommended attachments are mostly the same for a standard build of the gun, but Season 6 does feature night maps for Verdansk and Rebirth Island, making thermal scopes much more viable to use.

Whether you use it for gaming or not, all good TVs are built on the same foundations. You want a 4K resolution, high-enough brightness to overcome glare and make HDR content pop, a relatively high contrast ratio with deep and uniform black tones, colors that find the right balance between accuracy and saturation and wide viewing angles. For video games specifically, you want a TV with minimal input lag and fast motion response, with no blur or other unwanted artifacts behind quick-moving objects.

The updated format promises 'authentically cinematic' use of motion smoothing, and settings that automatically make content look the best depending on your TV and lighting. More than 10 years after the launch of Dolby Vision, the next generation of the HDR format is here, and it aims to do more than just optimize tone and brightness level for different scenes.

The Xiaomi TV Stick 4K 2nd gen features a quad-core Cortex-A55 CPU and ARM Mali-G310 V2 GPU, delivering 80% higher CPU performance and 150% GPU performance.

Unfortunately, the settings the Switch 2 provides to users are nearly impossible to properly configure, leading to upgraded graphics appearing washed out.