Nick Pino heads up the TV and AV verticals at Tom's Guide and covers everything from OLED TVs to the latest wireless headphones. He's a Level 1 Certified THX Home Theater Professional, and has attended classes on TV and audio calibration. On Tom's Guide, he looks after some of the site's important buying guides like the best TVs, best OLED TVs, best 4K TVs, so most of his day is spent watching and evaluating new screens from LG, Samsung, Sony, Hisense, TCL and Vizio. (And yes, he knows how lucky he is to say that.) He was formerly the Senior Editor, TV and AV at TechRadar (Tom's Guide's sister site) and has previously written for GamesRadar, Official Xbox Magazine, PC Gamer and other outlets over the last decade. He got his start on Best Buy's official video game magazine, @GAMER, for whom he attended his first E3 in 2013. He's served as a judge for CES' prestigious Innovation Awards and has attended the tech conference in Las Vegas since 2014. He has a computer science degree from the University at Buffalo and still resides in the Buffalo area. (Go Bills!) Not sure which TV you should buy? Drop him an email or tweet him on Twitter and he can help you out.
Latest articles by Nick Pino

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Sometimes there’s such a leap in performance between one year and the next, that it becomes hard to recommend buying a previous year’s model. That's exactly the case with the QM9K.

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Soon, the Sonos family of portable speakers will gain a new member — the top-secret Sonos Play.

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The best TCL TVs combine great value with killer performance. These are our favorites.

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Getting out of a three-year relationship is never easy, but Verizon is making it particularly difficult for me.

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LG has released a new software update for its 2025 OLED TVs that brings enhanced brightness for Dolby Vision HDR content.

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RecommendedThey won’t replace Bose as the best noise-canceling earbuds, but the AZ100 offer crisp, clean sound without the cord.

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Onn. and Vizio now control 5% of the global TV market and much more in the US — here's what that could mean for you when shopping for your next big-screen TV.

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Films nominated for this year’s awards include the soundtracks for "Bugonia," "Frankenstein," "Hamnet," "One Battle after Another," and "Sinners." Here's where you can listen to them.

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Your next work headset will look like a pair of Sony WH-1000XM6 headphones and support both spatial audio and adaptive ANC.

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Not sure whether you should buy a top-tier Mini-LED model or an outstanding OLED for Super Bowl Sunday? Tom’s Guide’s team of AV experts is here to help.

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Dolby Atmos in any room with any speaker configuration? LG Sound Suite will make that happen — if you don’t mind paying its premium sticker price.

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At CES 2026, Hisense is introducing its second-gen RGB Mini-LED screen, dubbed the 116UXS — and I think it's the best-looking LCD TV at the show.

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Metadata is what’s going to transform your next budget TV purchase into a screen that looks three times its sticker price. At least, that’s the pitch of the Dolby Vision 2 demo I got at CES 2026.

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Not wanting to be left out of the cavalcade of CES TV news, Amazon has announced a new lifestyle screen — called the Ember Artline — as well as several updates to its Fire TV platform.

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LG's OLED lineup will once again include a W-Series 'Wallpaper' model for the first time since 2019.

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Samsung isn’t going to make it easy to pick out a TV in 2026 — it’s got two flagship models sporting vastly different technology that, having seen them, are both spectacles in their own right.

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The new LG Sound Suite can deliver wireless spatial audio to any room in your home and is coming to CES 2026.

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Just one day after LG announced that it’s bringing its first-ever Micro RGB TV to CES 2026, Samsung has fired back with some Micro RGB news of its own.

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Ahead of CES 2026, LG has taken the wraps off of its first-ever Micro RGB TV that looks like a serious upgrade for Mini-LED TVs.

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A roundup of the best TVs with built-in NextGenTV hardware.

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Not sure how much to spend on a new TV? We've put together a guide to what you can expect to get in return for your hard-earned bucks.

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Live translation is the killer app of the AirPods Pro 3

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Dolby has created one of the most universally supported HDR formats in the world — and now, it’s ready to roll out its successor, Dolby Vision 2.
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