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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Editor's ChoiceIt’s not without some minor shortcomings, but by and large the Hisense U8K offers an incredibly bright, colorful picture that’s fun to watch.

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If you bought an LG TV in the last six years, you have until April 30 to get three free months of Apple TV Plus.

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Sonos is adding some large, new in-ceiling speakers to its lineup, but finding them is going to be a challenge.

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The Samsung Galaxy Buds Pro 3 missed the Galaxy S24 event, but they're "incoming," according to a new rumor.

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Super Bowl TVs are always so cheap. Turns out there's a very good reason for that.

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THX and the Home Acoustics Alliance teamed up to deliver a killer home calibration class at the end of CES 2024 — here’s what we learned.

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This time it’s not a format — it’s a whole new way to imagine sounds in a 3D listening space.

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JBL's new noise-canceling headphones offer spatial audio for $300 less than the Apple AirPods Max.

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Two of the biggest names in audio are teaming up for a killer suite of soundbars, a subwoofer and satellite speakers.

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From incredible transparent displays to feature-rich AI enhancements, these are the most innovative TVs of CES 2024.

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Not yet ratedWith 10,000 nits of peak brightness, 40,000 local dimming zones and the ability to cover 100% of the DCI-P3 color space, the Hisense UX is the be-all, end-all of Mini-LED TVs.

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The LG Signature OLED T combines years of work from LG. The Samsung transparent microLED TV is ... certainly something.

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LG Display is showed us the evolution of OLED panels at CES 2024 — you're going to want to put on some sunglasses.

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TCL's 2024 QM89 model is bigger and better than ever. Here's what it's packing under the hood.

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Many of the big upgrades from the QM8 — including the Mini-LED backlight — are coming to the new QM7.

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TCL's 2024 lineup is all about bigger screen sizes but you won't find any 8K TVs in the mix. We wanted to find out why that is.

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Samsung might've just solved the second-largest issue plaguing OLED TVs.

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Roku Pro Series adds Mini-LED and Smart Picture technology to the brand's burgeoning TV lineup.

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LG's newest OLED TVs will be able to refine color, reduce blurriness and fine-tune brightness better than ever before.

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Not sure what settings to change on your new TV? I test TVs for a living and here are five things I always change.

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We put the LG B3 OLED through our testing protocols and the results line up almost exactly with last year’s LG C2 OLED.

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Of the dozens of TVs I saw this year, the Hisense U8K, the Sony A95L OLED and the Samsung QN900C 8K QLED are the three that really stood out.

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Apple has a plan to bring more Dolby Atmos music to Apple Music — here’s how it’s going to happen.
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