Gifts, Cards & Party Sign-Up and Get Best Buy Deal Alerts By joining, you agree to the Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy. Site to Store Purchases Stay at the cutting edge of entertainment with Best Buy coupons. Whether you're looking for the hottest new games, music or movies, you can find them here. Get deals on HDTVs, home theater, audio systems and more. Take advantage of our selection of Best Buy coupons, special offers, and discounts to keep up with the latest and greatest for in-home entertainment and technology. Austin police on Tuesday are asking the public to help identify a man authorities say was caught shoplifting at a Northeast Austin Best Buy last year. Around 7:20 p.m. on Nov. 27, 2016, police responded to a call of a robbery by threat at the Best Buy on Barbara Jordan Boulevard in the Mueller development. The suspect is described by police as a bald black man between 30 and 40 years old, wearing a beard, and about 5-foot-10 with a medium build.
Police said he was last seen wearing a white button-down shirt, khaki pants, gray tennis shoes with black edging and a large army green parka with orange lining and a fur trim hood. Police also released images from surveillance video footage of a man they say is the suspected robber. Authorities say the man threatened store workers who tried to stop him from fleeing. Anyone with information about the man or the incident should call the Austin police Robbery Tip Line at 512-974-5092 or Crime Stoppers at 512-472-TIPS or text "Tip 103" + your message to CRIMES. Tips can also be submitted through the Austin police mobile app, Austin PD, which is a free download for iPhone and Android devices. The LEGO Movie 3D (2014) The LEGO Movie 3D Blu-ray delivers truly amazing video and audio in this exceptional Blu-ray release An ordinary Lego mini-figure, thought to be the extraordinary MasterBuilder, is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil Lego tyrant from gluing the universe together.
For more about The LEGO Movie 3D and the The LEGO Movie 3D Blu-ray release, see the The LEGO Movie 3D Blu-ray Review published by on where this Blu-ray release scored 4.5 out of 5.Directors: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller Writers: Dan Hageman, Kevin Hageman, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller Starring: Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Nick Offerman, Alison Brie » See full cast & crew The LEGO Movie 3D Blu-ray, Video Quality As if The LEGO Movie weren't dazzling enough, along comes Warner's 1080p/AVC-encoded 2D presentation and MVC-encoded 3D experience. Rather than slather the screen with eye-gouging swaths of color, the film's ever-shifting palette incorporates convincing lighting to lifelike ends. Hues are bright and bold when Emmet strolls through a bustling city; dusty and sunburnt when he and Wyldstyle travel to the Old West; cast in cold blues and positively sinister greens in Lord Business' lair; sickeningly sweet when the Masters arrive in Cloud Cuckoo Land in Middle Zealand;
and bold and triumphant as Emmet and Wyldstyle bring the fight back to the streets. Primaries are vivid, black levels are deep and satisfying, and contrast is consistently filmic and strong. And oh the detail. The chips along the edges of the plastic characters. The fingerprints you'll catch sight of when the light hits Benny or Lord Business just right. The wear and tear of a fading decal. The imperfections of a brick. It's all there to be discovered and pored over in high definition. Edges are clean and natural, free from ringing or aliasing, and textures are refined and close-ups striking. If you didn't already think the world of the animation, you will now. The 3D experience is equally rewarding, barring a few exceedingly minor instances of crosstalk that creep into some of the more chaotic battle scenes. (For those whose displays are prone to ghosting, that is.) Dimensionality even more so. And the combination of the two? Brace yourselves for some of the most immersive and engaging 3D images of any disc this year, and hands down one of the best animated 3D experiences I've ever reviewed.
This is the stuff of top-tier, demo-worthy presentations. LEGOs believably spill into the foreground and sink into the backgrounds. Laser bolts fire anywhere and everywhere they pleased. Smoke billows, water surges, blocks tumble, ships nearly fly out of the screen, and excitable hero after excitable hero bounds into your home theater as easily as they bound onto screen. Better still, there isn't a hint of significant macroblocking, banding or any other encoding issue of note, regardless of whether you choose the 2D or 3D presentation of the film. This is about as pristine and impeccable as they come. Fans will be overjoyed. The LEGO Movie 3D Blu-ray, Audio Quality Matching The LEGO Movie's video presentations high-point for high-point is Warner's wonderfully enveloping DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 surround track. In fact, the only nitpick I can even muster is that it isn't a 7.1 mix. And when that's your chief complaint, you know you're listening to something special. Low-end output is big and boisterous, throwing weight and power behind every blast, explosion, crash and collision, as well as lending presence to anything and everything that calls on the LFE channel for assistance.
Rear speaker activity is both aggressive and playful too, latching onto every scattered block, incoming attack craft, lumbering machine, approaching robot or off-target Batarang launched across the screen. Directionality is precise and involving, pans are smooth, and dynamics never falter. Dialogue isn't shortchanged either, arriving with ever-intelligible, impressively grounded voices that are never disconnected from the soundscape or compromised in any way. Masterfully prioritized, without issue or incident. This is about as good as The LEGO Movie -- or any animated movie for that matter -- could sound.Some of LG's OLED 4K UHDs. Don't get me wrong. I positively drool whenever I see an Ultra High Definition (UHD) so-called 4K TV (technically, "UHD" isn't exactly "4K," but it's close enough; here's an excellent UHD primer). Over the last few weeks, Samsung, LG and, this week, Vizio, all presented their 2015 UHD wares to the rest of the equally-drooling tech press corps. I'm particular agog over LG's 65-inch EG9600 flagship OLED model -- its shiny stygian blacks enable day-glow-like colors to seemingly bulge from the screen.
To battle LG's OLED UHD advantages, Samsung has boosted the colors and black levels on its new JS9500-series S-UHDs using a technology called quantum dot. Instead of boring you with the OLED vs. LCD details here, here's a piece exploring all the technologies UHD TV makers are employing to combat LCD's inherent flaws. Okay, so OLED and quantum dot UHDs are drool worthy. But would I buy an OLED or a quantum dot or any 4K UHD TV? Nope, at least not yet. Here are 5 reasons why I'll wait at least a year to buy my first 4K UHD TV. 1. There's Not Much Content. Netflix launched its latest binge-worthy series, Daredevil, last Friday, in 4K. It was shot to take advantage of not only 4K but OLED's superior ability to display dark shadow detail so precisely. Netflix, along with other streaming services such as Amazon, YouTube and M-Go, are offering 4K content. Check out all available 4K content in this comprehensive guide by my buddy David Katzmaier on CNET. As you'll see, there's not a whole lot of 4K content out there yet.
But don't expect to see 4K content broadcast -- ever. Which means no 4K sports broadcasts, for instance. The biggest cache of 4K content will be coming later this year and early next year when the first 4K UHD Blu-ray players appear from Panasonic, Samsung, LG, et al. All new programs and movies are being shot in 4K, and Hollywood studios will likely re-master their catalogs in 4K so they can sell you new 4K copies of movies you've already bought three or four times in the last 20 years. Yes, all UHDs offer upscaling -- blowing up HTDV to 4K. But results vary wildly from one UHD to another. Bottom line: there'll be a lot more 4K content to stream and buy on Blu-ray in about a year from now. 2. You Won't See the Difference. Even if you could access the few 4K programs available, it's an open question whether you'll be able to see the difference between UHD (4K) and HDTV (2K). In the HDTV world, it's impossible to detect the difference between 1080p and 720p resolution on HTDVs smaller than 50 inches watched from a normal viewing distance.
Check out this image of "Sunday in the Park" by pointillist painter George Seurat. Viewed up close, you can see the points. Shrink the picture and move further back, and the points fade to create a solid image. The only way to detect the dot detail improvement from HDTV to UHD is to either get closer or get a much larger screen -- or both. Only gamers who sit super close to their UHDs will be able to detect 4K's detail superiority, assuming the game is in 4K. But for those of us watching House of Cards on 60-65-inch sets sitting 6-8 feet away? It'll be really hard to tell the difference between 4K and 2K, certainly not a difference worth the UHD price premium. You can buy a really good 60-inch HDTV for less than $1,000. Only slightly larger UHDs are priced anywhere from four to nine times higher. For instance, LG's 65-inch Prime UF9500 LCD UHD, which uses a color-boosting technology called Wide Color Gamut (WGC), is priced at $4,500. Samsung's new flagship 65-inch JS9500 quantum dot UHD set is priced at $6,000.
And LG's droolable 65-inch EG9600 OLED UHD will sell for an instantly mouth-drying $9,000. As with all electronics, prices on UHDs will begin to drop as other suckers...er, I mean customers (slight error) buy current UHD models. Remember item No. 2 on this list about how hard it is to tell the difference between big-screen HDTVs and UHDs? The same problem exists at your local Best Buy. Why would you buy an expensive UHD if you can't tell the difference between it and the HDTV next to it? In order to differentiate UHDs from HDTVs in stores, UHD makers have curved their sets so you can tell the difference. There is no other reason why UHDs are curved -- pure marketing gimmickry. Oh, the UHD makers and your pimply sales person will wax poetically about how the curvature helps envelope you in the on-screen action and blah blah blah...It's the whole perception-is-reality thing. The curvature looks different, you want something new and shiny, so you believe the curvature is an improvement.
In fact, the curvature, especially on an LCD UHD, cuts down an LCD's already limited viewing angle and increases the reflective glare from ambient lighting sources. Plus, there's a bit of weird irony to the whole curved TV bit. For years, TV makers have been striving to make their TVs as flat as possible; OLED TVs are an astounding 4mm thin. But curving just makes them fat again. I'm hoping LG (since I want an OLED set) will offer flat models next year. UHD is still somewhat a work in progress. This year's models still don't conform to a number of pending, still in development or just announced highly-technical upgrades such as HEVC, HDCP 2.2, HDR and HDMI 2.0a. For the average viewer, the subtle differences these H-acronyms upgrades will provide are admittedly hardly earth-shaking or even noticeable, with the singular exception of HDR, High Dynamic Range. HDR brings a demonstrably higher degree of color, both in intensity and the number of colors and how accurately they're displayed.
You can see the difference HDR makes on photos you snap on an iPhone with HDR switched on or off. Dolby Vision, Dolby's HDR TV technology, will be included in Vizio's just-announced 65- and 105-inch Reference Series models, the first UHDs with HDR (no pricing or availability has been announced). In a demo at the Vizio event, the improvements HDR deliver in detail and depth are startling. Not only are colors brighter and more life-like via HDR, but image aspects heretofore undisplayable because of the limitations of LCD sets and, to a lesser extent, plasma displays, can now be seen. Above are freeze frames from Man of Steel displayed on a 2014 Samsung UHD on the left and on a Vizio Reference Series set on the right. On the Vizio, you can see Russell Crowe's Jor-El clearly despite an explosion flashing in the background. But Crowe/Jor-El is completely bleached out by this explosive flash on the Samsung, which is unable to display the wide breadth of color that HDR supplies.
HDR, however, requires a UHD capable of displaying its expanded color range, such as OLED, quantum dot or some other physical LCD enhancement. Vizio's Reference Series sets include just such a phosphor-based wide color gamut enhancement (think quantum dot light). Movies and TV shows also have to be mastered in HDR to be seen on an HDR-enabled UHD. Thus far, only Warner Bros. has started mastering its films in HDR; Edge of Oblivion (aka Live, Die, Repeat), Man of Steel, The Lego Movie, Into the Storm and the first two Robert Downey Jr. Sherlock Holmes films will be the first movies mastered in Dolby Vision -- soon to be streamable from Vudu -- with more to come. Unfortunately, each UHD maker wants to develop its own proprietary HDR platform rather than simply adopt Dolby Vision. Dolby Vision, however, is an optional specification in the 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray standard, but it's unclear if the HDR advantages of a Dolby Vision-mastered Blu-ray will be seen on a UHD that deploys a proprietary HDR technology.