Audio,Visual Category - Page 86

News Corp Forces Time Warner Cable To Remove Their Fox Networks From TWC iPad App [Popular Cable iPad App Now A Little Less Awesome After Fox Networks Threaten Legal Action, Yank All Their Channels From The App]

By on Thursday, 31. March 2011

Do you remember that awesome iPad app from Time Warner Cable that came out a few weeks ago? It allowed Time Warner Cable customers to watch whatever channels they get on their TV to be streamed to their iPad. Cool, right? Unfortunately, the free ride is over as News Corp [...]

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Sony Shows Off New Headphones, Earbuds [Sony's New Portable Gear the, NC-13 Earbuds and RF865 Headphones, Offers Noise Cancelation and Long-Range Wireless]

By on Wednesday, 30. March 2011

Seems that Sony’s been busy lately, and the results of all their industry has yielded a set of new audio devices for the portable market, specifically, the RF865 headphones and the NC-13 earbuds. But wait until you hear what these bring to the table.

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Tesla Sues Top Gear For Libel, BBC Quickly Counters [Tesla Enraged Over Top Gear Segment Where Car Is Pushed Into Garage]

By on Wednesday, 30. March 2011

Something of a donnybrook getting ready over in London, as three of our favorite things–cars, green tech, and high-def television–get ready to launch a smackdown of epic proportions. The folks out at Tesla have filed a libel suit against the BBC, producers of the legendary car show Top Gear.

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NCR’s Blockbuster Kiosks Expand Availability of “Day-And-Date” Program [Netflix Competitor NCR Gets More New Movies In At Release Date, Charges Higher Price]

By on Wednesday, 30. March 2011

Now here’s a question the folks at NCR, one of Netflix‘s current leading competitors (since they took over the Blockbuster Express kiosks), are dying to know the answer to: Are you prepared to pay double, or even triple, the price to get the DVD you want on its release date? [...]

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Music Firms Universal and EMI Considering Offering Music As iPad Apps [iTunes LP Will Let Companies Pack More Into Their Offerings With Bigger--Pricier--Files]

By on Wednesday, 30. March 2011

File this one under the heading: good ideas with terrible execution. We’ve seen a lot of those over the years, haven’t we? And I never want to damp down the enthusiasm for innovation, but sometimes, you’ve just got to see the handwriting on the wall. And that’s kind of what [...]

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Roku XD Now Available With Best Buy [Best Buy Announces Roku XD Availability, Priced At $79.99 & Available In Retail Locations & Online With BestBuy.com]

By on Wednesday, 30. March 2011

While it was never all that hard to buy a Roku set top box, in the past a purchase meant doing your shopping online and waiting for a delivery. Or for those (like myself) with slightly less patience — paying for overnight delivery in order to get it quickly.

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Camera+ For iPhone Gets An Update & Temporary Price Cut [Camera + Update Brings "Clarity" Along With Various Other Bug Fixes, Improvements & $0.99 Price Tag]

By on Wednesday, 30. March 2011

Camera+ is one of those iPhone apps that went viral, and at least for me it went ignored. Well, I ignored for a while until I finally caved in because I had to see what all the hype was actually about. And well, I now love the Camera+ app for [...]

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LA Noire To Join Lineup At Tribeca Film Festival [For The First Time Ever, A Game Joins A Film Festival's Lineup, And What Better Game Than LA Noire?]

By on Tuesday, 29. March 2011

After seeing the trailers for the upcoming L.A. Noire, I got to thinking that it was downright cinematic. If someone had told me that it was a movie instead of a game, I likely would have believed it. But now, the game that could be mistaken for a movie just [...]

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Casio Debuts Twelve New Projectors [A Variety of DLP Projectors With A Variety Of Features Lands All At Once From The Folks At Casio]

By on Tuesday, 29. March 2011

Nothing like dropping a big old hunk of raw news right in our laps, and that’s just what the folks out at Casio did today with their announcement of–get this!–fully 12 new DLP projectors coming soon, starting in Japan. And now, I’ll break it down into a more usable format [...]

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AirPlay In 1080p Thanks To Homebrew Concept [Mac Buffs Eric Govoruhk and Kelly McAteer Develop Simple Way To Stream 1080p From An iPad 2]

By on Tuesday, 29. March 2011

For anyone who’s ever used an AirPlay system and then been gravely disappointed to discover that it only replays in 720p, even when you’re playing from a 1080p source, I feel your pain. But I’m not the only one who felt it, and for a couple folks–Eric Govoruhk and Kelly [...]

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