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After having owned mid-level Vizio LCD sets for the past 8 years, I finally took the plunge on a 77" LG C1 OLED TV. 1) I understood what black was, but now I know what black is. The inky, deep, light stealing black of the LG C1 is incredible to behold. It's actually blacker than the LCD screen...

Title: At Eternity's Gate Genre: Drama Director: Julian Schnabel Cast: Willem Dafoe, Rupert Friend, Oscar Isaac, Mads Mikkelsen, Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Niels Arestrup, Anne Consigny, Amira Casar, Vincent Pérez, Lolita Chammah, Stella Schnabel, Vladimir Consigny, Arthur...

Title: Cold War (2018) Genre: Drama, Romance, Music Director: Paweł Pawlikowski Cast: Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza, Cédric Kahn, Jeanne Balibar, Adam Woronowicz, Adam Ferency, Adam Szyszkowski, Dražen Šivak, Slavko Sobin, Aloïse Sauvage Release: 2018-06-08...

Already three weeks into the competition shows and no thread yet? Ya slippin' Josh. Sorry to see Cole go, I thought he was better than the judges were saying. But then again, I'd keep Darius over Cole, so it was the right call. It seemed like Cole was ticking off all the boxes, so the only...

For the want of a fingerprint reader, all was lost. The Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+ are the most beautiful phones I've ever seen. From all accounts, they are as sleek and gorgeous in person, and a joy to hold. Look out at the rest of the smartphone world -- the Galaxy S8 looks like it came from a...

Anyone watching this new series from Sam Richardson (VEEP) and Tim Robinson (SNL)? It's full of batshit crazy energy and absurdist touches about a pair of admen in Detroit. The first two episodes have been stellar, and the pilot is fantastic. A big thumbs up from me, and Richardson kills me...

I don't think I've posted here is a while, but needless to say, my all consuming thirst for new technology has quenched, and I haven't really been following in depth hands on pieces about whatever the hot new device of the day is. My tablets are 2 & 3 years old, and I'm only really upgrading my...

Wow, this series is a must see. A 10 part miniseries about the rise of Pablo Escobar's Medallin Cartel and the violence that gripped Colombia during his reign, Narcos tells the stories through the DEA agents assigned to bring down the cocaine narcotrafficante and the internal workings of the...

With Idol planning to knock off after next season, there's a good chance that SYTYCD will end either this season or next. If this is the last season, it's a shame they'll have to go off on such a sour note. The judging has always been the worst parts of the show. Swapping out Mary for Paula is...

After 8 hours setting up and playing with it, here are the few things that really stick out: It feels great in the hand. Actually, it feels great overall. The front glass is chamfered on the sides, allowing your finger to gently slide off the edge. In contrast, the S5 had a faux chrome band...

It's been a week since the S6 and S6 Edge were revealed at MWC. I'm always up for a model upgrade, but I was hesitant to consider the S6. It wasn't because of the lack of extSD -- Google made extSD support such a pain that it started losing its utility. I'd much rather have 32gb internal than...

I sat through all three episodes of Mulaney with my mouth agape because I cannot understand how such a terrible show can make it to air. If you took out some of the dirty bits, this show feels exactly like a Nickeolodeon or Disney Channel live action show -- half the jokes don't really make any...

From the creator of the beloved and mourned Happy Ending comes Marry Me, starring Casey Wilson and Ken Marino. In a nutshell, it's what would happen if Penny Hartz moved out of Chicago and finally got engaged. Happy Endings fans should be ecstatic over what's essentially a Penny spin-off -- the...

A few weeks ago, I looked at my Galaxy S4 and thought, "This is actually a great phone". When I got it, I was coming off of the Galaxy Note 2, so there wasn't anything really exciting or new about the S4. But I came to appreciate how solidly it performed. But as soon as they announced the GS5...

NO DEAL!!!!!!!!!!! Was really looking forward to this one, But how in the world do they opt for a 4MP camera? The front camera is 5MP, meaning the M8 is the first phone that I'm aware of that takes higher MP selfies than portraits. If you don't do any cropping it's still pretty weak, but if...

New series on TNT created by Frank Darabont. I've only seen the first episode, but I absolutely love it so far. The contemporary noir style reminds me of LA Confidential, but my favorite part is the hard boiled dialog. It's the best new show of the season.

When first powered on my Transformer Prime almost two years ago, it quickly usurped my smartphone as the center of my mobile world. But as the months went by and I went from one Galaxy phone to another, my smartphone became much more capable for core functions like Web browsing, Facebook, and...

Did anyone else not laugh once? The entire cold open operated on the same level as a Nick or Disney live action show -- no actual jokes, just hyper delivery and overly enthusiastic laugh track. I might give this another shot because sitcom pilots aren't the best gauge of how good show are, but...

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/07/29/strategy-analytics-androids-tablet-shipments-up-to-67-in-q2-2013-ios-fell-to-28-3-and-windows-secured-4-5/ Remember when Apple was the only game in town for tablets? I know they're lumping in Kindles as Android tablets, but geez -- 2/3 of the market...

There are so many reasons a large screen device is better than one with a puny little screen -- easier to read, easier to input, room for larger batteries, and better for video and games. Basically, the Note 2 trounces the iPhone 5 on a multitude of tasks simply because the screen is larger...

Like Ron, Andy Ihnatko drops iPhone for Android. Is Gruber next?*: http://www.techhive.com/article/2030042/why-i-switched-from-iphone-to-android.html http://www.techhive.com/article/2030116/customize-and-collaborate-why-i-switched-from-iphone-to-android-part-2.html Part 3 is probably on...

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt is declaring victory in the mobile marketplace: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57558679-94/googles-schmidt-android-is-winning-that-war-with-apple/ The first big benefit of winning is that they can now focus on spreading the Google ecosystem to all...

http://www.cnet.com/8301-33506_1-57557848-306/galaxy-s3-beats-iphone-5-for-best-device-of-2012/ So it's not Time Gadget of the Year (that goes to the iPhone 5), but CNet gives the nod to the Galaxy S3. What does this mean? It means that the Apple mystique is being eaten away from the...

Most of this post is copied from another thread, but I thought it would be good to break it out into its own thread. I haven't really gotten a lot of time with it yet, but here's what I've seen so far: The display is very nice. At 50% brightness (I hate auto brightness) it's nice...

This is my favorite new show right now. Half of the episodes are almost directly copied plot-wise from the UK version, but a couple of them are completely original. I liked the UK series and wrote off the US remake, but what sold me on the new version is that they didn't try to tone down any of...

Probably Apple. Edited the entire post because the article referenced was faulty. I give you this instead: http://www.journalism.org/analysis_report/device_ownership If you factor out the Kindle Fire, Android increased their share from

5.5" 720p SAMOLED screen with Wacom digitizer and S-Pen, first phone to ship with Jelly Bean (that I can think of). First impressions and glorified first impressions dubbed reviews are starting to roll in, as it drops tomorrow in Europe (the US version looks like a November launch)...

http://www.apple.com/letter-from-tim-cook-on-maps/ Quote: I guess it's a better response than, "you're holding it wrong". Cook should change his name to Ck, to better reflect his loss of balls. Whether or not Jobs would have allowed a fiasco like this to unfold, he would have...

http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/19/3345712/windows-phone-8s-by-htc-specs-release-date-features Meanwhile, Nokia is butthurt: http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/19/3357690/nokia-htc-windows-phone-8-response-chris-weber Quote: I'm not exactly clear on what he's saying, but it...

Despite all of the nice things the tech blogs had to say about the Lumia 920, Nokia's newest flagship Windows Phone, the truth is the phone is likely a non-starter. It didn't help that Nokia did not know when it would be released, which carrier would sell them, nor any release dates. Why are you...