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Marketplace All-in-One

The latest TV innovations have their critics

Marketplace All-in-One

Marketplace

News, Business

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

The extended Black Friday sale season means a lot of people have been buying new TVs. The top sets today can display in up to 8K Ultra High Definition, they have deeper blacks, brighter highlights and are thinner and lighter-weight than ever. And yet, modern TVs have their haters — a dedicated group of purists who find them lacking, and would rather hunt down a good old fashioned used plasma.

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0:00.0

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0:06.8

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0:13.0

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0:18.7

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0:23.0

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0:25.6

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0:28.7

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0:33.8

Tis the season for TV shopping.

0:36.9

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech.

0:38.2

I'm Megan McCarty Carino.

0:56.1

Today's top OLED and LED TVs offer more for your dollar than ever. Blacker blacks, brighter brights, and up to 8K ultra-high definition. But modern TVs have their haters.

1:01.6

I tend to be someone who is very, I guess, perceptive and very obsessive.

1:06.6

Rahul Banerjee, a tutor in Long Island, is among the afflicted.

1:13.7

So is food scientist Vikrant Law in New Jersey.

1:18.3

He notices weird things on screen that other people don't.

1:21.8

And then you don't want to say anything because, like, other people are like, don't get it, and you're like, I'm just going to pretend like I didn't notice that.

1:25.7

No, this isn't a sixth sense kind of thing.

1:29.7

I see dead people.

1:32.3

It's a problem with watching cinematic content like that on modern TVs.

1:38.2

All those spooky, slow pans and tense tracking shots meant to pull viewers into the imaginary world, just look wrong to them

1:49.1

somehow.

1:50.5

The only way to describe it is just like it's very surreal and unnatural.

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