Amazon Marketing department: “Gee, Jeff, what do you want to do tonight?” Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO: “The same thing we do every night: Try to take over the world!” The massive online retailer continues its bid for world domination with a new product: Fire TV Stick Basic Edition. It starts shipping tomorrow to countries around …
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Foxtel is looking decidedly un-Foxtelish these days. Pay TV without the cable. Playing nice with other streaming services. A Foxtel box that doesn’t really look like a Foxtel box. The company Wednesday announced the launch of the Foxtel Now Box — a set-top puck created for Foxtel’s pay-by-the-month streaming service, Foxtel Now, a puck which supports other streaming services and …
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Just when you thought you’d gotten the whole high dynamic range thing figured out, here comes a whole new format. HDR is the latest enhancement to make it to televisions, streaming devices and your favorite TV shows and movies. The good news is that it can deliver the best picture quality available in home video today. The bad news? It …
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It was once the most high-tech and futuristic feature you could find: Transmit sound — with light! Lasers! A cable not of copper, but glass! Except, it was almost never glass, and was usually expensive. And while the optical cable was the digital audio transfer method of choice for decades, it has started to disappear. More and more products are …
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If Telstra has its way, you’ll never have to go anywhere else for entertainment ever again. The telco announced Monday the launch of Telstra TV2, also dubbed “the new Telstra TV,” building on the first generation, Roku-powered set-top box it first released in 2015. The second-gen device has a lot of the same features as the original Telstra TV — …
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Walking into Tomás Puig’s San Francisco apartment, I notice something is a little unusual. There are three cameras in the kitchen and what looks to be a TV switcher sitting against the wall. Rather than hosting a handful of guests for dinner, twice a week Tomás opens his home to thousands who watch his cooking show on Facebook Live. “Tomás’ …
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The sound base category is experiencing a kind of renaissance in 2017, with new models from Sonos, Fluance and now Q Acoustics. Though still yet to make a significant splash in the United States, Q Acoustics is nevertheless following up its well-received Media 4 sound bar with the M2 Soundbase. The M2 is a compact sound base at 21.6 inches (550mm) and …
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CNET’s Cheapskate scours the web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. Find more great buys on the CNET Deals page and follow the Cheapskate on Facebook and Twitter! Screenshot by Rick Broida/CNET It’s been a little over a year since I last wrote about SelectTV, so …
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CNET’s Cheapskate scours the web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. Find more great buys on the CNET Deals page and follow the Cheapskate on Facebook and Twitter! Enlarge Image Normally $250, temporarily $125, the LG SJ5Y will make you fall in love with your TV …
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Roku announced it will bring its Roku Express and Streaming Stick+ devices to the UK from the 19th of October. The Roku Express is the budget entry into the Roku family, costing £30. It comes with a remote control and HDMI cable, so everything you need to get started is already in the box. Roku boasts this newest model will …
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