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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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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The Hisense U6K is routinely on sale for $499, so I put it through its paces this month and I’m incredibly impressed.

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This deal is even better than Black Friday! Here's how you can save $750 on the 65-inch LG C2 OLED TV.

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The Sony WH-1000XM5 are, unequivocally, the best headphones in 2023 and now they're just $250.

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Here’s what I loved and hated after spending one month with Sony’s streaming-only handheld.

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Samsung’s research labs have been working on an open-source alternative to Dolby Atmos in South Korea since 2020 — and it just got approved.

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This Walmart-exclusive 75-inch Vizio TV is one of the biggest deals we're going to get for Black Friday 2023.

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Looking for that door-buster TV sale in 2023? These five cheap TV deals are a good place to start!

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Level up your gaming setup with a 65-inch Samsung OLED TV that's $500 off at Best Buy right now ahead of Black Friday.

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Sharp re-enters the US TV market with a $1,500 OLED TV sporting the Roku smart platform.

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The Sony A95L OLED is the successor to the best OLED of 2022, as this TV looks to continue to hold that crown in 2023.

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Valve has unveiled the new Steam Deck OLED — here are the five major differences between this handheld and LCD version.

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Looking for a dumb TV? Here's why you can't find them at all anymore.

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More bad news for physical media lovers: Sources now claim that Best Buy will take Blu-rays and DVDs off store shelves in 2024.

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One of the industry’s biggest TV tests took place over the weekend to name the best TV of 2023 — here are the results.

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The Hisense UX Mini-LED TV might have broke our brightness tests — but it has a glaring weak spot.

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Saved by a zipline? This OLED TV comes with a unique safety feature that prevents it from smashing on the ground if it falls.
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