The Best TV Model Techwood 50AO1SB 50" LED in 2015 Review

     This huge techwood 50AO1SB 50” TV will look great in your living room. It offers excellent picture quality with sharp images, thanks to its Full HD 1080p. Exclusive to AO, this Techwood TV was designed to provide high quality television, without compromising on design. Its epic size and built-in Freeview HD makes it the perfect for families with more than 50 channels to choose from. Plus, with loads of Smart features, you can surf the web and check out loads of your favourite social sites.

This Full HD 1080p TV gives you a realistic and natural viewing experience. Highlighting every individual colour and image, it uses over 2million pixels to enhance your favourite shows and sports to make everything look amazing!

Take full advantage of its amazing smart tech features and surf the web till your heart’s content. You can check out what your friends are up to on Facebook, stay ahead of the curve by catching breaking news as it happens on Twitter or browse selfies on Instagram. And, if you’ve missed your favourite shows use the BBC iPlayer or 4oD apps to re-watch at a time that suits you.

Built-in Freeview HD brings the detail of your favourite shows into your home. It includes 3 HDMI inputs, a scart input, composite video input, and digital coaxial out. Plus an Ethernet output, headphones socket and USB input. Simply connect to your Blu-ray player or games console to get more out of your set.

Directlit LED’s contribute to the fantastic picture quality thanks to lots of LED lights behind the picture. This excellent piece of tech makes it even easier to get that match-day experience from the comfort of your sofa.

Experience as clear as day sound straight from your telly thanks to the 2 built-in speakers with a combined output of 16 watts of Dolby Digital sound. However, if you want to invest in excellent sound, choosing the right TV is more important than ever. A soundbar will ensure concise sound and volume control so you don’t compromise on quality.

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The Best Camera Nikon D5500 review

    The Nikon D5500 offers fantastic DSLR image quality and speed in an ultralight and inexpensive package. Live View lets you shoot photos and videos while held away from your head with a swiveling screen.

The D5500 weighs so little that it's a pleasure to carry everywhere, and the D5500 is capable of capturing stunning images. Compared to pro cameras I often haul, the D5500 is a dream to carry, and when I'm more relaxed, I make better pictures.

This D5500 weighs two ounces less than 2013's D530 and adds a touch screen. For your privacy, it has no GPS — but you can plug one in if you like.

The D5500 has higher resolution than the $6,500 Nikon D4s, and its pictures are otherwise the same — and the D4s has no swivel screen! The D5500's shutter is much quieter than the D4s; you can shoot the D5500 in places where the loud D4s shutter would get you thrown out. The AF areas of the D5500 also fill more of its frame than they do in the D4s!

The only reason to pay more (and lug more) than the D5500 is if you subject your camera to daily physical and environmental abuse, or if you're an expert photographer who actually uses and understands advanced adjustments.

The D5500 has the same advanced adjustments as Nikon's more expensive cameras, but often requires you stop and go into a menu where the fancier cameras like the D7100 will have a dedicated button for the same thing, saving time — but only if you actually use those adjustments. On the other hand, for normal people the D5500 has its exposure modes on a big dial on top, while the D4s demands you hold a button and spin a knob to do the same thing, and the D5500 also has modes like "Macro," Sports" and "Portrait" on its big dial, while the pro cameras don't even have these modes.

For most people, the D5500 is a better camera than Nikon's more expensive models precisely because the D5500 is designed for normal people, not for full-time pros. The picture quality is the same.

If you just want great photos easily, the D5500 can't be beat. If you are like me and are constantly resetting the camera from shot to shot as conditions change (very few people know how to do any of this), I prefer the D7100 because it has more buttons to do directly what has to be done in menus on the D5500, while the D5500 weighs less and takes exactly the same pictures as the D7100.

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The Best LG 77EG9900 OLED TV in 2015 Review

    When LG hinted that it was going to go big on OLED in 2015 it certainly wasn't lying: with its 2015 line-up threatening to finally make OLED a thing we can all look forward to getting to know.

    The Korean giant has worked assiduously to make itself market leader with a technology that seems to have existed forever without ever dipping its colorful toe into the mainstream mass market, and it could just finally be bearing fruit.

    Last year's OLED line-up was limited enough to keep the cynics smirking, but LG's announcement that it will be producing OLED TVs across a broad range is manna from heaven for those who have been advocating the brighter, more vivid and previously ludicrously more expensive organic tech.

    Sitting at the top of the range is the 77-inch LG 4K OLED EG9900 which comes with a very particular gimmick of its own. With a wave of the remote you can take this beautifully designed television and make it bend or flatten depending on your need.

    It's brilliantly ridiculous, the kind of television that will attract equal amounts of drooling desire and the perfectly reasonable question of 'why?'

    In reality, this is not likely to be the television that defines LG's OLED 2015 plans - it's going to be a pricey number with all of that technology inside, and the real headline act is at the lower end, where curved, 4K and OLED televisions will finally be at a price point that will be somewhere between aspirational and attainable.

    That dose of realism does not in any way undermine the crazy gorgeousness of the EG9900. As you would expect from OLED at this resolution, the screen is droolworthy - colours bright and vibrant, the blacks absolutely perfect.

    That's down to the technology, where OLED allows for pixels to be, effectively, turned off. That black isn't an interpretation of black, it's the absence of any emitted light.

    That 4K resolution means that you can be stood a matter of inched from the screen and only just make out the pixels. Standing back in the sweet spot, the glory of all that color is there to behold.

    This is where it's usual to drop into talk about the deep reds and bright yellows, but the most appropriate cliche is that you have to see it to believe it. The greatest possible advert for a 4K OLED television is to stand in front of it and soak it all in.

    But what of that flexibility? A press of a button moves the screen from a huge curved television into a flat screen. The movement is nice and our LG rep was adamant that no amount of flexing the screen will damage those OLED pixels - although that's something that only time will tell of course.
Let's face it, there's a better than average chance that you simply won't be able (or, more honestly willing) to fork out the amount of money that the LG EG9900 costs, and that's before we even know exactly what that price tag.

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The Best Samsung JS9000 SUHD TV in 2015 Review

       In terms of futuristic-sounding TV technology, Samsung has outdone itself again. The JS9000 is the spiritual successor to the 2014 HU9000, and stands as middle child in the company's new high-end lineup of SUHD TVs. The "S" doesn't stand for anything, according to Samsung, but the UHD is longhand for 4K. Along with the curved JS9000, which comes in 78-, 65-, 55-, and 48-inch sizes, there's also the flat JS8500 and the high-end JS9500.

      So what makes them "S"? In two confusing words: quantum dots. The dots themselves are actually nanocrystals -- really, really small crystals -- applied to the blue LEDs that comprise the backlights of these LCD TVs. They emit specific wavelengths of red and green which, combined with the blue LEDs, can achieve brighter images and a wider color gamut than conventional LED-backlight technology.

     Samsung says its SUHD sets achieve up to 2.5 times the light output of standard LED LCDs, although I'm guessing the high end of that number applies only to the full-array JS9500; the edge-lit JS9000 should be dimmer.

     It also says their color approaches, but doesn't quite achieve 100 percent coverage of, the DCI color space, which is significantly wider than the Rec 709 color space used for almost all in-home content today (in other words the wider gamut isn't much use today, despite Samsung mentioning one-off collaborations with Fox in its press materials). Beyond the dots, SUHD TVs also employ a new panel technology designed to further improve contrast in bright rooms.

 That all sounds great, and we're excited to test the SUHD TVs in the lab, especially given the excellent color we saw from Sony's Quantum Dot TV. But we still don't expect SUHD to beat the picture quality of OLED. They're still LED LCD TVs, after all, with all of the flaws of that technology.

    While it does include hardware-based local dimming from its edge-lit LED backlight, the JS9000 doesn't have the full-array backlight found on the JS9500. It also lacks that model's chamfered bezel. Otherwise it's packed with features, starting with a full-fledged One Connect box that allows upgrades of both connectivity and processing, as well as an octa-core processor.

    Thanks in part to exclusive deals, all of Samsung's 4K UHD TVs get access to more 4K streaming video services than other brands. They include Comcast, DirecTV and M-Go. The latter requires one of Samsung's UHD video packs to allow downloads of select 4K movies. Of course they also get 4K streams from Netflix and Amazon, and offer the HEVC decoding and HDMI 2.0/HDCP 2.2 connectivity found on all major-brand 4K TVs.

    The JS9000 shares with many 2015 Samsung sets an all-new Smart TV system powered by Tizen, Samsung's open-source operating system used on smart watches and a few phones. Highlights include a simpler, one-screen user interface, enhanced video sharing with Samsung phones, a Sports Live app with live games and stats on the same screen, a new Milk Video platform with clips from the web and content partners, and an alarm function that provides time, weather and other wake-up accouterments. Potentially more useful is the ability to work with PlayStation Now, providing console-free game play vis the TV itself.

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