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Can your ears tell the difference between a lossless and lossy song? There’s a simple test that’ll help you settle the question, once and for all.
Sony’s says the PlayStation Vita gaming handheld topped 1.2 million units sold worldwide as of Feb. 26, following its U.S. launch on Feb. 22 and Dec. 17 in Japan.
The sun is quickly setting on Netflix’s streaming partnership with Starz. As previously reported, the two companies couldn’t hammer out a deal and, as a result, some 1,000 or so Starz titles — many from Sony and Disney — will be pulled from the Netflix catalog this week. Here are 50 of the more notable ones.
Getting TV stations through the airwaves may seem like an anachronism in the age of streaming video online. But actually, the rise of Hulu and Netflix seems to be helping the rabbit ear industry.
Comcast, the nation’s largest cable company, is launching a new video-on-demand service aimed squarely at Netflix, in a move that illustrates accelerating competition for advantage over the digital living room.
Last year, you could watch every NCAA men’s basketball tournament game for free online. This year, it’s going to cost you.
Although “iTV” seems like an ideal name for Apple’s rumored television, the company may have to pick something else due to trademark troubles.
The Wall Street Journal’s Amir Efrati and Ethan Smith are reporting that Google is working on a consumer-electronics system designed to stream music–and, eventually, maybe video and other media–around the home. Their story doesn’t have much in the way of detail, but does say that Google’s brainchild might be akin to a lower-cost version of Sonos’s excellent-but-pricey music-streaming products. Absent more details, there are several ways to respond to this sketchy bit of news.
Fun with numbers: For the first time ever, the Super Bowl was legally streamed online here in the U.S. and, according to NBC, over 2.1 million people fired up their web browsers to watch it. Overall web traffic, however, apparently fell by up to 20% during the game.
Apple is just now looking into display capabilities for an Apple television, according to the latest scuttlebutt, which means a product launch may not happen until the end of this year or early 2013.
Another CES has come and gone, so in case you missed all the hullabaloo, here’s a look at seven of the coolest gaming ideas from the show.
