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 ...

I wasn't expecting to see Samsung's UBD-K8500 Ultra HD Blu-ray player on sale until the end of the month, but it's already available at a few stores. USA Today points out that Video and Audio Center ...

In their book “Understanding by Design” (UBD), Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe describe six facets of understanding: explanation, interpretation, application, perspective, empathy and self-knowledge.

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 ...