John Higgins

Senior Reviewer, TVs & Audio

John Higgins is a Los Angeles-based senior reviewer at The Verge covering TVs and audio. Before joining The Verge, he’s been the Senior Editor of AV at Digital Trends and Managing Editor, Tech at Reviewed. During his 20+ year career in publishing, he’s written reviews and features for the New York Times’ Wirecutter, TechRadar, Tom’s Guide, Business Insider, CNET, Sound & Vision, IGN, T3, Projector Central, and Home Theater Magazine, where he got his start in 2003. He is also an ISF Level III-certified display calibrator. Away from his desk, John is a musician with a Masters degree in piano from University of Southern California. He enjoys spending his free time with his wife and son, or playing D&D or video games. Signal: johnhiggins.01

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Sony’s flagship RGB LED TV is incredible

The Bravia 9 II is the best RGB LED TV available with game-changing features, but I’d still buy an OLED.

John HigginsJul 18

Blue Prince became a bonding — and learning — experience for my family

John HigginsJul 12

Vizio accidentally made the best dumb TV on the market

The Mini LED Quantum is the cheapest quantum-dot TV you can get, but Walmart’s tracking is worrisome. Luckily you can avoid it.

John HigginsJul 5

The best Prime Day deals on LG, Samsung, and more 4K TVs

John HigginsJun 24

These are my favorite Prime Day deals on earbuds and headphones

John HigginsJun 23

John HigginsJun 22

Amazon’s updated Fire TV OS is now available on all current-gen Fire TV sticks.

The redesign, which is a huge improvement, was announced at CES this past January and has been slowly rolling out across devices. It’s now on Ember TVs, the Fire TV 4K Select, and Fire TV Cube. Partner TVs from Hisense recently got the update, with additional manufacturers’ TVs being added later this summer.

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Amazon’s new Fire TV user interface gets you to what you want to watch—even faster

[Amazon News]