• 2020 Gift Guide: Top 30 4K & Blu-ray Gifts for Movie and TV Fans

    While moviegoing has fallen on hard times during the pandemic, home video viewing has soared. These days, most viewers like to stream their entertainment, but in a dystopian future where the internet is banned, you’ll be happy...

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  • 2020 Gift Guide: These Are Some Of Our Favorite TVs

    2020: A year of seismic changes. But in the world of TVs, it was a year of incremental change. 8K TVs haven’t made much inroads in the consumer market—content is very sparse and prices haven’t dropped appreciably...

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  • 2019 Gift Guide: Our Top 10 Favorite TVs

    Ahhh… it’s that time of year. Awkward family gatherings, chestnuts roasting on an open fire, shopping for TVs… TVs have long been the centerpiece of Black Friday and holiday sales. Their big flickering displays have the wow...

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  • 2019 Gift Guide: The 10 Best Smartphones of the Season

    Smartphones are the most rapidly evolving space in the consumer tech world these days. It’s always, but…what’s around the corner? 2020 will be the year of the foldable phone (for reals this time), so you’ll need to...

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  • 2019 Gift Guide: Our 10 Favorite Laptops Under $500

    The humble budget laptop is one of our favorite and most popular product categories on Ben’s. While it’s still the rule that laptops under $500 are meant for light work and casual web use and not heavy gaming,...

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  • 2019 Gift Guide: Top 30 4K & Blu-ray Gifts for Movie and TV Fans

    Are we in the twilight of physical media? It seems so: the MPAA reported earlier this year that sales of discs have dropped 50% over the past 5 years, while DVD (gasp) still accounts for nearly 60%...

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    2018 Tech Gifts: Best Gadgets Under $100

    While expensive tech toys like the Nintendo Switch and PS4 Pro always get lots of attention, there are a ton of awesome tech gifts that won’t bust your budget. We have put together a list of ten of...

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  • Stuff Your Holiday Stockings with These Awesome Gifts

    When done right, the stocking can be one of the best parts of Christmas. There’s just something wonderful about digging into a packed stocking to find the nearly endless stream of gifts stuffed into that giant sock....

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  • 2018 Gift Guide: Our Favorite Laptops Under $500

    Selecting our favorite budget laptops under $500 was a lot like walking a tightrope: on one side was mediocre quality and low prices, and on the other was terrible quality and even lower prices. Fortunately there are...

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  • 2018 Gift Guide: The 4K TVs You Really Want

    he TV market is all about 4K now, as 1080p quietly fades into the past. The fast adoption of 4K has been spurred on by how quickly prices have fallen. Expect to see a lot of 55-inch...

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  • 2018 Gift Guide: The Best Smartphones of the Season

    One of these years, the Apple-Samsung hegemony in the smartphone marketplace will end, but it’s certainly not this year. Meanwhile, phone displays don’t show any signs of getting smaller, although manufacturers are figuring out clever ways to...

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  • 2018 Gift Guide: The Best Premium Laptops

    hile 2-in-1 laptops have been gaining popularity in recent years, this year’s top 5 premium laptops all have the old-school clamshell form factor, albeit with very thin ultrabook profiles. Apple, Microsoft and Dell are, not surprisingly, on the...

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