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Retail parks are designed to make every screen look like a window into a brighter, sharper world. Here’s how to cut through demo modes, vivid presets and motion smoothing — and judge a TV for the room you actually live in.
240Hz has become the loudest number on a monitor box, but it is often the least relevant one for UK buyers. Here is how to separate genuine motion clarity from marketing hertz, and when the extra spend actually makes sense.
Projector demos love dark rooms and space films, but British lounges have bay windows, low winter sun and table lamps. Here is how to judge brightness, contrast, screens and throw distance for the room you actually own.
Somewhere along the way the phone camera stopped being a camera and became a small computer that produces photographs. That's often brilliant and occasionally dishonest — here's how to judge a handset by its artefacts instead of its megapixel count, and how to catch software inventing detail you never pointed it at.
Bright sunshine flatters every phone camera ever made. It's the flat, white-skied Tuesday in November that separates the good sensors and sensible processing from the ones that just shout about megapixels. Here's how to test your own phone on a grim day, and what to look for if you're buying.
Spec sheets are brilliant at making every monitor look like a studio tool. This UK buying guide separates the numbers that change colour work from the ones that mostly change the box. It covers sub-£300, mid-range and £1,000+ panels, plus when a calibrator beats an upgrade.