Audio,Visual Category - Page 7

Even the most ardent home theater buff like myself must admit, if sufficiently pressed, that there are just some things a home theater cannot do that a regular movie theater can. Screens measured in multiple feet, and of course, that room-filling sound just aren’t quite possible–or even feasible or necessary–for [...]

Remember back in February, when we brought you the first word on Aereo? The streaming television service that had a lot of local folks excited and plenty of networks incensed? Well, there’s a new competitor coming to the field, Nimble TV, and they’re looking to do much the same thing [...]

Interesting news for those of you Dish Network subscribers who were thinking about adding Dish’s Hopper to their home theater lineup. Dish has added a little something extra to the Hopper’s function set, and it’s going to give those of you who want a little more music in your home [...]

In another indication that the streaming video networks are starting to discover the value of offering up their own content alongside the offerings of other studios, Hulu has dropped word about plans to bring a sizable number of series to their streaming service produced under their own banners.

TV is big business, folks. Lots of people watch it every single day, and that means big money for advertising and promotion. But a recent study by Viacom suggests that television isn’t just the province of the appliance for which it was named, and increasingly, it’s the province of tablet [...]

I never thought I’d actually see the movie theaters manage to find a way to recover their relevance, but the discovery of Sony and Regal Theaters’ Access Glasses goes a long way as far as I’m concerned. While theaters have been having a rough go of things in recent years, [...]

Big news for those of you camera buffs out there who thought that Wi-Fi connectivity was a great idea on cameras and should have been brought to more models than just the basic point and shoot line. Seems that Samsung’s going to start rolling out a line of DSLR cameras [...]

In the course of writing about home theater hardware and home audio gear and all those other great gadgets, I’ve seen a lot of nifty things. I’ve seen a lot of disturbing things. And I’ve seen some things that baffle me so deeply that I can’t for the life of [...]

One thing that has often irked me about the Xbox 360′s entertainment apps is that so many of them are put behind a paywall, while their PC equivalents aren’t anywhere near so restricted. But Microsoft’s got some plans for this weekend that will likely make you look to clear your [...]

Indeed, when you look at the history of clock radios and the like, most of them are clearly geared toward the iPod, or the iPhone as they’re substantially similar in size. But now, the folks at iHome tipped us off to a set of new releases that will provide similar [...]