Audio,Visual Category - Page 65

Netflix Sued Due To Lack Of Subtitles [National Association Of The Deaf Sues Netflix Over Lack Of Closed Captioning Or Subtitles On Its Streaming]

By on Monday, 20. June 2011

For a lot of folks out there–me being among them–subtitles are a valuable tool while watching movies. When you want to know exactly what’s being said in every word of dialogue, you go looking for subtitles, or at the very least, closed captions. But when you can’t get either, then [...]

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Facebook Planning Music Service To Compete With iTunes, Say Reports [Reports Emerge Suggesting That The App Store Isn't The Only Apple Property In Facebook's Crosshairs]

By on Monday, 20. June 2011

It’s been a strange couple of days for Facebook and Apple, no mistake there. But now we’ve got some new word that suggests that Facebook wants a slice of the iTunes pie, and is thus looking to make music a much bigger part of the experience and take some thunder [...]

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VIZIO Tablet Release Date Pegged For Late June? [Leaked Walmart Documents Show That VIZIO's 8-Inch Android Tablet/Remote Control Shipping Too Stores Later This Month, Final Specs Still Unknown]

By on Friday, 17. June 2011

Vizio is a great company that sells awesome low-cost HDTVs, and they’ve been credited with single-handedly keeping the price of HDTVs lower in the United States. Now, they’re moving into the realm of tablets, and we may have a potential release date for when you can expect them to arrive [...]

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Google Movie Rentals Land On Motorola Xoom Wi-Fi [Google Videos Movie Rental Service Will Now Work With The Motorola Xoom]

By on Friday, 17. June 2011

If you’ve got a Motorola Xoom, (or if you’re holding out until the Motorola Xoom 2 emerges, which may not be so far away), then you’re probably a little less than happy to find that you can’t get Google Videos’ movie rental service through it. At least, that was the [...]

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For Online Video, YouTube Is King, Amazon And iTunes On The Bottom [Recent Polling Shows YouTube Wide Favorite For Online Video, While Some Surprising Players Emerge]

By on Friday, 17. June 2011

If you’ve seen a video online late, chances are you saw it on YouTube. Or you saw it on a blog that embedded it from YouTube, or any combination thereto. But according to a recent survey from Citigroup, the rest of the online video landscape boils down in a very [...]

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Comcast Shows Off 1 Gbps Connection, New Xfinity, At NCTA Cable Show [Comcast Shows Off Its Own Google-Competing One Gig Connection, But Will It Too Be Capped?]

By on Thursday, 16. June 2011

More news out of the NCTA Cable Show, folks, as Comcast realizes it was about to get its lunch eaten by Google and shows off its very own 1 Gbps connection out at the 2011 Cable Show.

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Apple Announces Back To School Deal–No iPod Touch This Time [Apple's Back To School Sales Event Gets Its Freebies Straight, Offers Gift Card Instead Of Free Hardware]

By on Thursday, 16. June 2011

Well, it’s summer, and for the parents of schoolkids and those very same schoolkids out there, it’s a time of great change and a variety of emotions, depending on what side of the coin you’re on. In fact, many of you probably don’t even want to think about back to [...]

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App Sales Look To Outpace Music Sales Within Three Years [Analysts Suggest That The App Store Will Have Better Sales Than iTunes Music In Just Three Years]

By on Thursday, 16. June 2011

Most of us are likely familiar with apps, those little chunks of software devoted to one particular niche or task. It seems like these days there’s an app for just about anything, and with more being added every day it’s not hard to see why. But would anyone have ever [...]

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Music Unlimited Qriocity Android App Announced [Sony Ericsson Xperia Smartphones Get Qriocity Powered Music Player Via Music Unlimited; Other Devices Compatible, Too]

By on Wednesday, 15. June 2011

Apple is rolling out its iCloud and iTunes Match services, but there’s no stopping other companies from offering similar multimedia services to smartphone users. Music Unlimited has just announced its Android application that offers streaming of more than 7 million songs.

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iOS Gear Gets A Whole New Way To Control Home Theater Gear [MyTVRemote For iPad, iPod Touch and iPhone Emerges, Offers Set Of Control Options For Televisions And The Like]

By on Wednesday, 15. June 2011

Considering I just showed you a whole panoply of upcoming televisions from the folks out at LG, I figured it’d be a good idea to give you another way to control those televisions, and this time, from your iPhone. Or iPad or iPod Touch, for that matter, and it’s called [...]

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