YouTube TV’s Multiview feature is reportedly rolling out to iOS devices, giving iPhone owners a new, more immersive way to watch sports.
News of this update comes from multiple users on the YouTubeTV subreddit claiming that they had just received the option on their smartphones. One person even shared a short video of their iPhone playing four different basketball games at once – well, one’s a commercial, but you can tell it’s basketball due to the ESPN banner.
We don’t know the full capabilities of Multiview on YouTube for iOS. According to 9To5Google it can be activated from the app’s Home tab, however it “only works with select games,” and it doesn’t have all of the same features as the smart TV version.
Multiview on iOS apparently can’t show sports scores alongside a broadcast, nor does it have the Last Channel Shortcut to hop between recently viewed channels. There is a gap in performance, but regardless of what it can’t do, Multiview on mobile is still very useful to have, especially now during March Madness.
Availability
It appears this isn’t a limited roll out as a company representative told Reddit users the feature will appear in a patch that will be available on all iOS devices. You need to have YouTube version 8.11 installed to see the option.
The feature is also coming to iPadOS, as another user claims to have the patch on their iPad Pro 12.9. Admittedly, it’s difficult to watch four sports games on their iPhone since the small screen shrinks each window considerably, but iPad owners should have a better viewing experience.
An Android version is apparently in the works, however it won’t be out for a while. The same representative said that the update will arrive within “the coming months” although it may arrive sooner than expected. One user claims to have received a notification after opening the YouTube app on their Android informing them of Multiview. But, when they checked, it wasn’t actually there.
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We reached out to Google asking them to confirm whether or not the iOS release will reach everyone or just a select few. We’ll update this story if we learn anything new.
Until then, check out TechRadar’s list of the best iPhone for 2024 if you’re looking to upgrade.
An important part of how we test TVs at TechRadar is subjective testing. That’s the part of the process where our reviewers run the best TVs through tests looking at picture quality, sound quality, gaming features, smart TV features and more. To test picture quality, we use 4K Blu-ray and streaming, HD Blu-ray and streaming and lower-resolution sources such as DVD.
The specific movies, TV shows, and other media we use are important for our picture quality tests. We’ll use the same scenes for reference across every TV or projector because we know what to look out for when it comes to contrast, black levels, color accuracy, motion, brightness and more using these scenes. And it’s not just picture quality – we’ll also use some of these movie scenes to test the TV’s built-in audio quality.
The movies and scenes we use vary from reviewer to reviewer (apart from one disc that I’ll get into later) but will have been carefully picked as references because they can quickly show a TV’s strengths and weaknesses on the criteria listed above.
Here are the four movies (a mixture of both SDR and HDR across discs and streaming) that I use whenever I’m testing a new TV, along with a bonus disc at the end that no reviewer can live without.
1. The Batman
The Batman (pictured) is excellent for showing black level and shadow detail. (Image credit: Future)
For me, The Batman, the 2022 movie starring Robert Pattinson and Zoë Kravitz, is an excellent resource for testing several aspects of a TV’s picture. An extremely grainy, dark and gritty movie, The Batman used “available natural light” and is “an urban noir film”, according to cinematographer Greg Fraisier ACS ASC (via Cinematography World). The film is also mastered at a very dim 400 nits (most movies are mastered at 1,000 nits).
The Batman is a no-brainer for testing shadow detail and black levels on a TV. If a set can reveal the details and textures in such a dark movie by keeping dark tones accurate, it’s a big positive. Much of the movie takes place at night, so it’s also great for testing black uniformity – the ability to evenly display dark tones across the screen. This is usually no problem for the best OLED TVs but can be a real issue for edge-lit LED TVs such as the Samsung CU8000, for instance, which makes black areas in images appear gray and cloudy instead.
There’s a noticeable amount of grain in The Batman – an intentional choice by the director – but the movie still aims to maintain true-to-life skin tones and textures. That’s why I use it to test a TV’s digital processing to see if it reduces grain too much, giving the image an artificially clean look – something that typically happens in picture modes such as Standard and Vivid.
Along with picture quality, The Batman is excellent for testing audio. The speech is a bit mumbled (again, maybe intentionally?), so it’s a great disc to test dialogue clarity. There’s also the brilliant Batmobile chase scene, which can test the power and weight of a TV’s built-in audio, primarily through the rumble of the Batmobile’s roaring engine.
2. Top Gun: Maverick
Top Gun: Maverick (pictured) is good for showcasing daylight scenes and skin tones. (Image credit: Future)
Top Gun: Maverick, the sequel to 1986’s Top Gun (both starring Tom Cruise), is almost polar opposite to The Batman. Both of these 4K Blu-rays are excellent for evaluating skin tones and a TV’s ability to display true-to-life textures. But a lot of Maverick is shot during the day, so it lets me see how a TV handles those characteristics in a well-lit scene.
The main reason I use Maverick, though, is to test motion. In 2018, Tom Cruise commented on TV motion settings, saying “it takes the cinematic look out of any image and makes it look like a soap opera shot on a cheap video camera” (via BBC News). He made these comments whilst shooting Top Gun Maverick, so clearly natural-looking cinematic fast-paced action was what he was aiming for.
Maverick is filled with plenty of long, panning shots – across landscapes, following cascading, rolling jets and even boats and motorcycles. There are also plenty of intense flight scenes including the first ‘dogfight’ training mission, which I use a lot. This sequence lets me easily see if motion looks smooth or choppy on a TV. When using Filmmaker Mode (generally the most accurate TV picture preset), motion smoothing settings get turned off and that’s a real challenge for TVs. More premium models tend to handle this fine, whereas more budget sets, contrary to what Mr. Cruise says, need a bit of motion help via blur and judder reduction adjustments.
Again, this disc is one I use not just for picture quality tests but audio as well because, you guessed it, jet engines make a fantastic workout for a TV’s built-in speakers. Also, it has many shots of jets flying across the screen, which tests the TV’s soundstage (the wider the better), virtual surround sound, and the positioning of sound effects relative to the on-screen action.
3. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Star Wars: The Last Jedi demonstrates color, particularly in the scene pictured above. (Image credit: Future)
Despite what many people think of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, it is a wonderfully shot and beautiful-looking movie. Details, motion, contrast – you name it, this movie has it. However, I use it for one test in particular: color.
In the ‘throne room’ fight scene between Rey, Kylo Ren and the red-suited guards late in the movie, so much dynamic and punchy color appears on screen and it really tests a TV’s color rendition. In particular, this scene uses the color red (the guards’ armor, the walls of the room, Kylo Ren’s lightsaber) and it can reveal a TV’s color strengths and weaknesses. Budget models often display a more faded and dull hue whereas more premium sets provide the eye-catching red I’m looking for, though without oversaturation.
The lightsabers are another excellent test for color. Several scenes make these the focal point of the shot and can be very useful for showing a TV’s effectiveness in displaying HDR highlights. TVs I’ve tested that have handled this successfully include OLEDs such as the Panasonic MZ2000, Philips OLED808 and LG G3.
4. The Amazing Spider-Man
The Amazing Spider-Man (pictured) DVD is good for showing a TV’s upscaling. (Image credit: Future)
This choice is less about the movie itself and more about a legacy format: DVD. The Amazing Spider-Man is a superb-looking movie, but not all 4K TVs handle it equally. Textures can appear soft and fuzzy – unsurprising considering the picture needs to be heavily upscaled.
A good 4K TV will provide blur-free upscaling and sharpen textures to give more life and punch to the picture. On larger screens such as the best 65-inch TVs, 4K upscaling of a standard-definition image will never be perfect, but a good TV should be able to make a DVD watchable.
The Amazing Spider-Man is a colorful, fast-paced movie with plenty of alternating day and night sequences, so it covers all the picture quality testing bases. More importantly, the DVD version tests a TV’s upscaling to see if it can bring a vivid visual punch to the movie even from a lower-resolution source.
Bonus disc: Spears & Munsil UHD Benchmark 4K Blu-ray
The Spears & Munsil 4K Blu-ray (demo footage pictured) is a testing essential. (Image credit: Future)
Many readers will be unaware of Spears & Munsil UHD Benchmark 4K Blu-ray, but it is an essential disc for TV reviewers. Spread across three discs, it is designed to test every performance aspect of a TV. The UHD Benchmark features test patterns for color gamut, grayscale, sharpness, motion, skin tones and much more, and for me is a must-have.
A section I regularly use is the demonstration material, a 7-minute reel of footage mastered in all HDR formats – HDR10, HDR10+, Dolby Vision – that highlights every area of a TV’s picture performance mentioned above. Snowy scenes reveal how a TV handles vibrant whites, night landscapes show its ability to reproduce a truly black sky, while animal shots contain intricate textures and details in feathers and scales.
This disc will enable home theater enthusiasts to calibrate their TVs for the absolute best picture and is highly recommended.
Google has announced that it is updating the YouTube app for TV platforms with a redesigned layout for accessing interactive content and information related to a video for offering a better user experience.
Currently, when you click on the title of a video, YouTube brings up a card showing the likes and views counts, upload date, channel information, description, and the comments section. The app lays the card over the video, which obstructs the viewing experience. That’s one of the reasons why people don’t access the card frequently or interact with videos. Well, Google wants to change that with the latest update.
With the new update, when you click on the title of a video, YouTube will shrink the video and show the card beside it, allowing you to watch the video without any obstruction. According to Google, it has made this change with feedback from users who say that they want to multitask while watching the content by being able to access the card (and interact with videos) while watching videos without any obstruction.
Google hasn’t revealed if the company is offering the latest change with an update to the app or with a server-side change. We are already seeing this change on our Toshiba M550LP TV with the Google TV operating system. It should also be live on other TVs, including Samsung TVs with Tizen OS and LG TVs with WebOS.
Samsung entered the OLED TV market quite late. Despite being a decade late to the market, Samsung has been rising through the ranks quickly. This year, the company expanded its OLED TV lineup, and it is planning to convert that into higher sales.
Samsung has a plan to match LG in OLED TV sales
Earlier today, Samsung held the ‘Unbox & Discover 2024′ promotional event ahead of the launch of its 2024 TV lineup in South Korea. During the event, the head of Samsung’s TV business said that its market share in South Korea’s OLED TV market is almost as much as that of its rival LG. Globally, Samsung has a 23% revenue share in the OLED TV market, and it plans to reduce that gap in 2024.
Yong Seok-woo, President and Head of Samsung Electronics’ Visual Display Business, said, “Over the past two years, our OLED TVs have experienced rapid growth, and our market share has grown to nearly 23 percent. Our expanded OLED TV lineup for this year will help us narrow the gap in the market.” He added, “Our 77-inch OLED TVs’ market share has grown to nearly match the competitor in the Korean market. We will continue to prioritize premium, large-screen OLED TVs to expand our share.”
Over the past two years, Samsung has sold over two million OLED TVs, while LG shipped three million last year. If you average those numbers, LG sells three times more OLED TVs than Samsung. However, this year, Samsung has added more models and sizes to its OLED TV lineup, and buyers now have more choices. Given Samsung’s brand recognition, more people will likely buy OLED TVs from the company.
You can watch our video of Samsung’s new OLED TV lineup that was showcased at CES 2024 below.
In 2022, Samsung had OLED TVs in two sizes: 55-inch and 65-inch. In 2023, Samsung expanded its lineup to include 77-inch and 83-inch OLED TVs. This year, the company is selling OLED TVs in several sizes and models, ranging from 48 inches to 83 inches. So, people have more choices and more affordable options.
In fact, Samsung’s 48-inch and 83-inch OLED TVs use LG Display’s OLED panels. Since Samsung Display is new to the market with its QD-OLED panels, it still can’t make panels in as many sizes as LG Display. So, Samsung Electronics’ Visual Display business decided to buy 48-inch and 83-inch OLED panels from LG Display.
Samsung’s spring Discover Samsung sales event is coming to a close soon but you still have some time to take part in the discounts—it ends on March 10. There are different deals each day on smartphones, tablets, TVs, and home appliances. To learn more about the products, check out our buying guides, like the Best Android Phones, Best Folding Phones, Best Tablets, and Which Samsung Galaxy S24 Should You Buy.
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Smartphone and Tablet Deals
Samsung’s Galaxy S24 series
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This is the first and best price drop we’ve seen for these brand-new phones so far. The flagship Samsung Galaxy S24 lineup (8/10, WIRED Recommends) was just released in January. The phones have great performance, day-long (if not more) battery life, and stunning displays. There are fun, smart software features, and while we think the design is a bit uninspired, the phones are available in neat colors. This basic model will serve most people just fine. Make sure to protect your new purchase with one of these great S24 cases.
If you prefer more real estate, the Galaxy S24+ has a larger 6.7-inch display compared to the baseline S24 model’s 6.2-inch screen. It also has a bigger battery, more RAM, and a higher starting storage capacity than its smaller sibling. Read more about their differences and similarities in our buying guide. We’ve also tested many Galaxy S24 cases—these are our favorites.
We still think the S24 Ultra is quite overpriced, but if you’re determined to snag it, this deal is the best we have tracked. It’s the biggest phone in the lineup and is made of titanium rather than aluminum. It also has a built-in S Pen stylus and more versatile cameras compared to the S24 or S24+. But if you don’t reach for a stylus very often, you’ll probably be fine with a different, less expensive model. Our buying guide has plenty of detailed advice. Don’t forget a phone case!
Galaxy Z Fold5
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This deal is a match of one we saw last fall. The phone was cheaper at Amazon earlier in the week, but it is still slightly discounted there. The Z Fold5 (7/10, WIRED Recommends) is a sleek smartphone that opens up like a book. The displays are bright and immersive, the cameras are great, and it has one of the best update policies you can get on an Android. Once your new purchase arrives, be sure to check our Best Apps for Folding Phones guide.
Last fall, we saw the Galaxy Tab 9 drop down to this same price. Even outside of Amazon’s lower cost, the $800 deal at other retailers is still decent. We think the Galaxy Tab S9 Series (7/10, WIRED Review) offers some of the best Android tablets around, but they’re usually too expensive. The hardware is excellent, from the screens to the included S Pen stylus, and Samsung’s security updates and Android OS upgrades will keep the gadget up-to-date for years.
Galaxy Tab S9 series
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The S9+ is a solid middle-of-the-road option for anyone who wants to use a tablet for both work and play. The 12.4-inch AMOLED screen has enough real estate for most tasks, and this model of the S9 series comes with 12 gigabytes of RAM compared to the basic S9’s 8 gigs.
Smartwatch and Headphone Deals
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The Samsung Galaxy Buds2 (9/10, WIRED Recommends) are some of the best headphones for Samsung users. They’re comfortable and have active noise canceling, plus five hours of battery life per charge. The IPX2 water resistance means you can wear them during workouts. And the colors are cute!
This price is even better than what we saw on Cyber Monday in 2023. We reviewed the Galaxy Watch 6 Classic (7/10, WIRED Recommends), which has a mechanical rotating bezel you can use to interact with the operating system; the standard Watch 6 doesn’t have the bezel feature. Still, this Wear OS 4 smartwatch matches the Apple Watch in its health and fitness features, plus it’s round! It only works with Android phones, and the electrocardiogram and irregular heart rate notifications only work when the watch is paired with a Samsung phone. Read more about it in our Best Smartwatches guide.
Gaming, Laptop, and TV Deals
Samsung The Frame TV
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We’ve seen this TV drop down to $998 during Prime Day before. Sometimes TVs can be a bit of an eyesore, but The Frame from Samsung looks like a piece of art when not in use. It’ll flip through hundreds of paintings and photographs, and the transparent cable is unobtrusive too. Our list of the best TVs has additional recommendations.
The QN800C (8/10, WIRED Recommends) is a fantastic 8K TV overall, notwithstanding its eye-popping price tag. There’s still not a ton of content available for 8K TVs, outside of YouTube videos. But if you wanna be future-proof and you’ve got cash to burn, this might be a purchase worth making.
This price matches what we saw during Cyber Monday last year. This little projector offers up to 100 inches of screen real estate, and it also features a built-in smart interface and gaming hub. It’s compatible with specific USB-C power banks for extra portability.
Chromebooks aren’t the most powerful machines, but they’re fine for things like doing homework or web browsing. And it’s important to underline that this price is fantastic compared to the usual cost. The Galaxy Chromebook 2 (7/10, WIRED Review) has great battery life, a fantastic screen, and a fun red shell. The 2-in-1 design lets you convert the laptop into a tablet. Our list of the Best Chromebooks has additional recommendations.
This memory card falls to $25 on a semiregular basis, but we’ve not seen it drop any lower. It’ll add plenty of storage to your Nintendo Switch, smartphone, or tablet. Samsung storage cards are fast, sturdy, and reliable. This one is backed by a 10-year warranty.
Samsung has announced that its new range of 2024 Smart TVs is now available to pre-order in its home country of South Korea, this includes the new 2024 Samsung NEO QLED TVs, the new 2024 Samsung OLED TVs, and the new 98-inch model.
Samsung Electronics will hold pre-sales from March 1 to March 14 ahead of the official launch of new 2024 TV products such as Neo QLED 8K, Neo QLED, and Samsung OLED.
Samsung TV, which has ranked first in terms of sales in the global TV market for 18 consecutive years since 2006, will introduce a variety of products again this year.
The 2024 Neo QLED 8K is equipped with the ‘3rd generation AI 8K processor’ with 512 neural networks, which has the highest performance among Samsung TV processors. It clearly upscales various contents to 8K quality to achieve excellent picture quality.
The 2024 Samsung OLED uses UL-certified ‘OLED Glare Free’ technology to reduce light reflection while maintaining color accuracy and clarity, providing an immersive viewing experience even during the day.
You can find out more information about the new 2024 Samsung Smart TVs including the new 2024 Samsung OLED TVs, and the new 98-inch model, and all of the new 2024 Smart TVs over at Samsung at the link below.
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Samsung is showcasing its latest NEO QLED TVs and OLED TVs with AI at a series of Tech Seminars in Frankfurt, Germany, which are taking place between the 20th and 22nd of February, there are a number of models being shown off.
One of the top models being showcased is the 75-inch NEO QLED 8K QN900D which comes with an NQ8 AI Gen3 Processor and Samsun g is also showing off their 2024 Tizenb OS for their smart TVs.
Samsung Electronics, the world’s leading TV manufacturer for 18 consecutive years, has commenced its annual series of Tech Seminars in Frankfurt, Germany. From February 20 to 22, Samsung will showcase its newest display lineup for 2024 that features new, innovative AI technology and smart features on the Neo QLED, OLED and Lifestyle products to professionals in Europe.
Tech Seminar sessions are a longstanding program, having delivered detailed information and exclusive hands-on experiences with new products for the past 13 years. As part of Samsung’s visual display vision — “We look out of the box to inspire new ways of life” — this year the company is displaying select, cutting-edge technologies from its 2024 lineup that offer new lifestyles and new ways of consuming content.
You can find out more details about the new 2024 range of Samsung NEO QLED and OLED TVs over at the Samsung website at the link below, there are a number of different models in the range.
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