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| Oct 4, 2022 | Disney+ and Star+ relaunch as native apps on PlayStation 5 for users to stream in 4K | Disney+ today relaunched as a native app on PlayStation 5 (PS5) consoles, which now supports PS5 capabilities like 4K HDR (High-Dynamic Range) streaming. The company also relaunched Star+, Disney+’s streaming service for Latin American subs... |
| Aug 25, 2021 | Hulu Is Adding HDR Support For Select Originals, On Select Devices | Hulu is finally adding high dynamic range (HDR) support to its platform. The streaming company has announced that select Hulu original movies and shows are now available to watch in HDR, HDR10, HDR10+, and Dolby Vision on select devices. Co... |
| Aug 24, 2021 | Years after its competition, Hulu begins streaming in HDR | Enlarge / Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale, now available in HDR on some devices.
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| Dec 31, 2020 | Latest LG OLED TV Firmware Update Reportedly Makes Gaming Duller | [Update: LG has responded to the issues raised in this article. That response can be found in this separate story. The original article continues unchanged below.] |
| Oct 24, 2018 | If you’ve got the cash for it, early reviews make Samsung’s QLED 8K TV sound like a good deal | If you’ve got $15k to spend on a gorgeous TV that you absolutely don’t need, then by all means, let this be the one. That’s the takeaway you might be left with after checking out the early reviews of Samsung’s 85-inch, QLED 8K TV — the Q900... |
| Dec 20, 2017 | AnyDVD Supports UHD Blu-Ray Ripping, While Devices Patch Security Holes | For a long time UHD Blu-Ray discs have been the holy grail for movie rippers.
Protected by the ‘unbreakable’ AACS 2.0 encryption, pirates were left with regular HD releases. While that’s fine for most people, it didn’t sit well with the rea... |
| Jan 25, 2017 | 3D TVs are dead | Remember those heady days of yesteryear when everything was going to be 3D? Tangled in 3D! Puss in Boots in 3D! Video games in 3D! Those days are gone, friends, as LG and Sony quietly phase out the 3D features for their latest TVs.
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| Feb 6, 2016 | Samsung 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray Player On Sale Now: Where To Buy | Alexandra Burlacu, Tech Times 06 February 2016, 09:02 am
The first Ultra HD Blu-Ray player to go on sale is the Samsung UBD-K8500, which is now available at various retailers.
Samsung offered official pricing details for its UBD-K8500 Blu-r... |
| Nov 10, 2015 | Vizio's Premium 4K Reference Series TVs Expand Rollout, Samples Coming To Best Buy Magnolia Design Centers | Horia Ungureanu, Tech Times 10 November 2015, 04:11 am
Vizio is done teasing and is now accepting orders for two top 4K TV models belonging to its Reference(R) Series.
In an effort to broaden the appeal of the premium TV sets, the company n... |
| Apr 4, 2013 | Charter Communications Refuses To Air Antenna Manufacturer's Ad | There’s a lot of talk about “cord cutting” going around. On one hand, the techier side of the spectrum feels this is the new normal and that it spells out the eventual demise of cable companies. On the other hand, cable companies are statin... |
| Jul 23, 2010 | DISH Network Ends Half-Cooked DTVPal DVR | If you’ve never heard of the DTVPal DVR – or DTVPal tuner, don’t worry, you’re not alone. The DTVPal DVR was an interesting device that was a cross between a VCR and a DVR. VCR because it could record shows based on time – unlike the better... |
| Apr 23, 2010 | This is why early adopting sucks: Avatar doesn't play on some Samsung BR players | This is not for you
Hey, cutting edgers! How does it feel to be the first kid on your block not to be able to play a brand new movie because of some wonky firmware issue. I have a Samsung BD-UP5000, the HD-DVD/Blu-Ray combo device that came... |
| Mar 25, 2010 | Wherein the LOTR Blu-ray is compared against HD broadcasts and deemed inferior | The Lord of the Ring Blu-ray discs will be released on April 6, but a few lucky nerds already have access to it. And they don’t like what they see.
Take a look at this first image posted by AVS Forum user eric.exe. It’s from the 23Mbps VC1 ... |
| Aug 17, 2009 | Western Digital's WD TV 2 snapped "in the wild" | CG’s favorite little doodad, the WD TV, from last year is a due for an update this year and the blokes over at the AVS Forums have a handful of images of the upcoming WD TV 2. Two new features for the WD TV 2 can be gleaned from the images ... |
| May 20, 2009 | DIY: Speaker and component cables | Making A/V cables used to be a hobby of mine. That was before HDMI took over my gear though. But just a few short years ago, all my A/V equipment was hooked up with homemade cables. The process is easy enough as long as you can use wire cut... |
| Feb 23, 2009 | Cameras and mics inside DTV converters? Sorry, no | Update: It’s been admitted it was a hoax, but that’s not reflected everywhere yet. If you saw it elsewhere, now you know for sure.
There’s a bit of a flurry going on about a DTV converter box that supposedly has a camera and microphone hidd... |
| Dec 2, 2008 | For image quality buffs, DSLR video is off the table | The 5DmkII is, it should be said first, an excellent camera, and it takes amazing still photos. Many people seem to think, though, that along with their professional still camera they are getting a professional video camera. While the video... |
| Apr 21, 2008 | Cable HD not so high-def, say subscribers | Some cable providers, most notably Comcast, are receiving even more flak over the quality of their high-def programming. The problem has been getting HD signals to fit in the given bandwidth, and now it may be taking a toll on quality.
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| Apr 2, 2008 | Comcast swaps HD quality for quantity | To carve out room for more HD channels, Comcast has now made the decision to sacrifice on the side of quality. But will customers, already hesistant to pay extra for HD content packages, accept sub-standard HD?
As described in detail in a b... |
| Feb 11, 2008 | Samsung sued over “defective” first-gen Blu-ray players | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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Blu-ray may be at the cusp of victory over HD DVD in the next-gen format war—especially with Netflix's decision to stop of... |
| Nov 7, 2007 | HD fanboys go too far, shut down AVS Forum | The format war is alive and well over at the AV forum. So alive that the moderators have had to shut down further posting in the HD area till the end of the week. I guess the fanboys on both sides couldn’t keep their cool.
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| Oct 5, 2007 | New Blu-ray Features Freeze Older Players; Updates Coming | With the next wave of interactive features having been added to 20th Century-Fox's latest Blu-Ray Disc releases, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer and The Day After Tomorrow, there was always a certain level of anticipation tha... |
| Jun 18, 2007 | Blockbuster to Expand Blu-ray Retail Titles First, HD DVD May Wait | For over a year now, the retail high-definition market has been looking for a signal from places on high of any tipping of the scales, any crack in the dam that will help consumers make the ultimate choice in high-definition movie format in... |
| Jun 17, 2007 | Blu-ray Discs Starting To Rot | This does not bode well for the Blu-ray camp, but maybe it’s just an isolated incident. Or is it? Looks like a few other AVS Forum members are reporting the same blotchiness on their The Prestige discs. Most of the members reporting issues ... |
| Jun 12, 2007 | Apple To Support HD DVD in Leopard? | Could Apple be throwing its support behind both Blu-ray and HD DVD? We already know that Apple is a member of the Blu-ray Disc Association, but according to a WWDC attendee’s post on the Mac Rumors forum, Leopard’s DVD player now has HD DVD... |
| May 15, 2007 | Microsoft Updates HD DVD Player: More Audio Options, Better Disc Compatibility | Microsoft is set to release an update to its HD DVD player for the Xbox 360 today. Most of the updates are audio-related: users now have the option to output all audio as DTS 1.5Mbps, DD 640Kbps or WMAPro. Other little fixes include improve... |
| Jan 31, 2007 | PS3 Owners Report Blu-ray Problems After 1.5 Upgrade | An unusually high number of reports of intermittent playback freezes during Blu-ray movies and some games have been posted to Sony's PlayStation 3 forum, as well as to the AVS Forum and other sources, after PS3 owners upgraded to versi... |
| Jan 17, 2007 | LG Super Multi Blue HD Player Already on Shelves?! | LG’s Super Multi Blue HD Player was considered by many to be the best of CES. It is massively notable due to its ability to play both HD DVD and Blu-ray formats. A potential end to the format war, it gives studios the choice to get behind w... |
| Dec 7, 2006 | Sony Resolves PS3 HD Issue -- Sort Of | Sony has released version 1.3 of its firmware for the PlayStation 3 game console, which gives preference to 1080i high-definition output. The device initially outputted in only 720p and 1080p HD, which meant older televisions with support o... |
| Nov 29, 2006 | Wii Sensor Bar Hacks | It seems that the Wii Sensor Bar runs on 7.5 volts barreling out of the Wii console itself. Therefore, an industrious young man, if he put his mind to it, could add a DC adapter from Radio Shack. That’s just what the folks at AVSForums did,... |
| Nov 15, 2006 | Toshiba Delays Second-Gen HD DVDs | What Toshiba is calling, in a statement to the British electronics publication Pocket-lint, "a minor reliability issue with an outsourced LSI component," is being blamed by its UK division for the delay of its second-generation HD... |
| Nov 1, 2006 | Xbox 360 Update Not So Rosy? | . Rather than wait for more confirmation, word from Sony, word from Microsoft, or ANYBODY ELSE to run into this problem, we’re going to go ahead and call it an epidemic and call Microsoft’s update a totally bug-ridden failure. Good idea, ri... |
| Oct 20, 2006 | Sony Quietly Delays Blu-ray Player Again | As members of the AV Science Forum were the first to discover yesterday, Sony has once again pushed back its estimate of availability for its first wave of Blu-ray Disc player consoles, the BDP-S1.
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| Sep 19, 2006 | Universal Studios Unlikely to Ever Support Blu-ray | A statement made on paper by Universal Studios president Craig Kornblau, and distributed by the HD DVD Promotions Group to attendees of CEDIA Expo 2006 in Denver last Friday, cites the early reviews from first-adopters in the next-generatio... |
| Aug 2, 2005 | Olympic Mobile Video Rights Up For Grabs For The First Time | The consortium of broadcasters that holds the European rights for the Olympics has opened up bids for mobile rights to the 2006 winter and 2008 summer Olympics, which would give winners the rights to broadcast moving pictures of the Olympic... |
| Jun 6, 2003 | The Future of HDTV | Not to mince words, all hell is breaking loose in TV-land the past few years, and it’s only going to get more complicated as new HDTV technologies and variations on existing technologies are being introduced at a rapid pace. Also, unresolve... |
| May 2, 2003 | HDTV Quest: The Never-ending Story | It’s been about six weeks since my story HDTV Quest: The Sequel was posted, and as you can infer from the title of this story, the saga continues — I still haven’t found the perfect HDTV for my family room– sigh
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| If you’ve got the cash for it, early reviews make Samsung’s QLED 8K TV sound like a good deal | If you’ve got $15k to spend on a gorgeous TV that you absolutely don’t need, then by all means, let this be the one. That’s the takeaway you might be left with after checking out the early reviews of Samsung’s 85-inch, QLED 8K TV — the Q900... |
