Samsung has confirmed Spotify will be coming to its Shape Multi-Room streaming products in the US by mid-2014, joining the forthcoming IHeartRadio. Samsung has told CNET Spotify Connect will be coming in Q2 2014, while IHeartRadio is imminent. The two services are part of a wider offering which will be available for the Multi-Room ecosystem …
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Neil Young’s Pono has been in the news a lot recently, but not many people know that the new player is designed as a way to playback FLAC files, primarily those bought from PonoMusic. While you could wait till the Pono Web store comes online sometime in the next year, there are ways you can get your hands on FLAC …
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PonoMusic Pono Update 2:39 p.m. ET: The early bird pricing of $200 is now gone, but pledgers who put up $300 or more will receive a PonoPlayer. Neil Young’s PonoPlayer has been in development for several years, but after months of rumor and conjecture of its potential release date it has finally been announced today on the PonoMusic Kickstarter. The …
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Roku has announced that it has added streaming service Showtime Anytime to its current generation of boxes for use by Showtime subscribers. The service is a competitor to HBO Go and includes current and past seasons of Showtime original series including “Homeland,” “Masters of Sex,” “House of Lies,” “Nurse Jackie,” “Dexter,” and “Ray Donovan,” as well as on-demand movies that …
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Heard of a band but don’t know what they sound like? Sure you could Google it (like a normal person) but you’re more likely to turn up the band’s most popular, and not necessarily most representative. song. That One Song, by the makers of social music website This Is My Jam , aims to change that. The app aggregates the …
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LG has announced it’s halved the price on the 55-inch 55EA9800 OLED screen it released in July 2013, which will now sell for under $7000. The curved 55EA9800 originally retailed for $14,999.95, and after an earlier price cut in August, LG is now offering the screen for $7999 with an immediate $1000 rebate as of today. In January 2014 it …
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As if 3D TV and LED LCD vs. OLED vs. plasma and 120Hz and the Soap Opera Effect weren’t confusing enough, in the last year we have seen the rise of a new HDTV technology called 4K. Or if you use its official name, Ultra High Definition (UHD). UHD is an “umbrella term” that encompasses higher resolutions (more pixels) than …
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LAS VEGAS — Following the demise of its plasma division last year, Panasonic has expressed its enthusiasm for the potential of LCD technology via its prototype Studio Master Drive 4K LED TV. At CES 2014, Panasonic offered attendees a look at its latest prototype — a local-dimming 4K LED TV — that it claimed delivered pictures as good as last …
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Confirming previous reports and leaks, today LG has announced an all-new operating system for its 2014 TVs. It’s called webOS, and it’s based on the eponymous platform that initially appeared in Palm smartphones, like the Palm Pre, CNET’s pick for the best product of CES 2009. HP aquired Palm in 2010, and LG bought webOS from HP last year. The …
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LG has announced its full lineup of 4K televisions for 2014 with 12 models including a monster 105-inch LCD and two curved OLED series. The lineup includes the two OLEDs — the EC9700 and EC9800 — and three series of LCD — the UB9800, UB9500, and UB8500–making it one of the largest offerings of Ultra HD displays yet. LG says …
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