Denon has announced two new high-end receivers that will be the first to feature the company’s HEOS streaming system onboard. The AVR-X4300H ($1,500) and AVR-X6300H ($2,200) are the first products to enable Wi-Fi playback using HEOS, in addition to Bluetooth and Apple Airplay. HEOS enables streaming of services such as Spotify, Pandora, Tidal, SiriusXM, Soundcloud …
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Forget the questionable iris scanner and finger-twirling stylus. One of the most intriguing new features in Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 smartphone and Notebook 7 Spin laptop is HDR compatibility. High dynamic range video can look even better than conventional high-def and 4K video, with brighter highlights and more dynamic colors. Up until now, the feature was only found in a …
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Streaming video, whether it’s from Netflix, YouTube, Amazon Prime, Watch ESPN or PBS Kids, is more popular than ever. And the selection of devices to get those shows and movies from the Internet onto your TV continues to expand. In the last six months or so all of the major players in TV-based streaming — Roku, Amazon, Google and Apple …
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Streaming video, whether it’s from Netflix, YouTube, Amazon Prime, Watch ESPN or PBS Kids, is more popular than ever. And the selection of devices to get those shows and movies from the Internet onto your TV continues to expand. In the last six months or so all of the major players in TV-based streaming — Roku, Amazon, Google and Apple …
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Wires are boring. I mean it’s not like anyone could write half a dozen different articles on HDMI. The future is wireless. The problem is, wireless HD is a fickle mistress. Competing standards, technological limits and cost all make it far less popular than the ubiquitous HDMI cable for conveying video and audio between devices in your home. But if …
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Every year TV companies come up with new terms to describe their latest, and sometimes not-so-latest, technology. Why? Because marketing works. A catchy name can do wonders for sales. But it’s also confusing, sometimes on purpose. Savvy CNET readers know that LED TVs are actually just LCD TVs, that UHD and 4K are (effectively) the same thing, and that most …
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Amazon and Monoprice offer cheaper HDMI cables than any traditional brick-and-mortar store. When it comes to cheap HDMI cables, two companies dominate: Amazon and Monoprice. Both offer well-reviewed cables of multiple lengths, all for far less money than many other brands. Since all HDMI cables perform the same when it comes to video and audio, what’s the better deal? Who’s …
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Once the hallmark of the high-end, 4K TVs are now coming down in price. In the US on Black Friday, for example, you can get a 60-inch Vizio 4K TV for $800. At the same time, many of the top picture quality technologies, like that Vizio’s multi-zone local dimming, are becoming increasingly rare in non-4K, (aka 1080p) TVs. So what …
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Sarah Tew/CNET There are few things that come in as wide a variety of prices as cables and interconnects. HDMI cables, for instance, can run from $1 to over $1,000 for the same length. USB cables can be similarly cheap or high-end. Speaker cable is even more extreme, from pennies per foot, to hundreds of dollars for the same 12 …
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Get Office 365 Personal free when you buy this Office 365 Personal-priced tablet. TigerDirect What’s the only thing better than one deal? Duh: five deals! Imagine for example, someone offered you one donut. Then imagine they offered you five donuts. Who’s gonna turn that down? (Incidentally, today is National Donut Day, meaning if you’re willing to drive around a bit, …
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