TV and home video editor Ty Pendlebury joined CNET Australia in 2006, and moved to New York City to be a part of CNET in 2011. He tests, reviews and writes about the latest TVs and audio equipment.

If you want everything Ultra HD Blu-ray can deliver, but are on a tight budget, Samsung’s UBD-K8500 is the player to buy. Just be aware that you might have to tweak some settings to clear up the ...

This is a super-svelte Ultra HD Blu-ray player with a great interface and remote. Playback is excellent with the formats it supports. But we missed SACD playback and the player doesn’t support Dolby ...

So you just purchased a new 4K UHD Samsung TV like the Q8C and you need a Blu-ray player. Because not everyone has or even wants an Xbox One X, Samsung has you covered. The UBD-M9500 is capable of ...

The principles behind Understanding by Design (UBD) are not new. Backward planning, where teachers start with desired outcomes and plan lessons around them, reminds us of the psychologist Stephen ...

One of the greatest challenges of planning a course for the first time, or making substantial revisions, is what content to cover. Before my introduction to the principles of backward design, I would ...

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