Now playing: Watch this: Feel the fear when real objects meld with VR 1:31 Enlarge Image The VR arcade could be your next hangout spot. IMAX Virtual reality has turned me into a globe-trotting adventurer. I’ve scuba-dived massive undersea shipwrecks, coming face-to-face with a blue whale. I’ve fought off hordes of oncoming zombies with nothing …
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It’s been a great couple of years for PC gaming. Almost every noteworthy game is available on PCs at the same time as on living room consoles, and usually with better graphics options; new GPU and CPU hardware has made gaming desktops and laptops both more powerful and less expensive; and higher-res screens mean you can play at 4K and …
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Updated June 12, 2017 If you’ve had your eye on a brand-new 2017 OLED TV, whether from LG or Sony, it may surprise you to see I’m still recommending the, er, brand-old LG B6 OLED TV instead. It’s still the best buy for most people. OLED TVs still provide the best picture quality I’ve ever tested, and I just reviewed …
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Ever since the original PlayStation back in the ’90s, game consoles have been at the cutting edge of playing optical discs. The DVD and Blu-ray formats both got a huge boost from Sony‘s machines. With the latest optical format, 4K Blu-ray, it’s Microsoft’s turn to lead the pack. Sony decided to omit 4K disc support from its PlayStation 4 Pro, leaving the Xbox …
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I love projectors. Let me say that up front. I’ve used a projector as my only “TV” for over 15 years. In terms of picture size for the dollar, they can’t be beat. But even the best of these light cannons lags behind the latest display technologies commonplace in TVs. We’re only just starting to see reasonably affordable 4K projectors, …
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I wasn’t planning on reviewing the NAD C 338 stereo amplifier, but when it showed up at the CNET office I couldn’t resist trying it out. As I listened to music and movies, the combo of this little amp paired with a decent pair of speakers sounded better than most sound bars! Enlarge Image NAD C 338 amplifier NAD I …
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With the amount of high dynamic range video you can watch growing by the day, and more and more people recognizing the “HDR” abbreviation as something new (and potentially cool), TV manufacturers are jumping at the chance to show they’re on top of this latest trend. For several years HDR has only been available in expensive high-end TVs, but now …
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Now playing: Watch this: See Google Assistant on Android TV in action 2:09 OK Google, take over my TV. Google Assistant, the company’s voice recognition and control technology found in devices like Google Home, is coming to Android TV. That means devices that use Google big-screen operating system, namely select streaming boxes and recent Sony TVs, will soon get even …
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Now playing: Watch this: Watch and control YouTube 360 videos on the big screen 0:55 Do you like big-screen TVs? Do you like YouTube 360 video? Well, has Google got a feature upgrade for you. The company says its big-screen YouTube app will soon receive an upgrade to enable you to pan around the many 360-degree videos available on YouTube, …
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It was a bombshell. Operatives from two Russian spy agencies had infiltrated computers of the Democratic National Committee, months before the US national election. One agency — nicknamed Cozy Bear by cybersecurity company CrowdStrike — used a tool that was “ingenious in its simplicity and power” to insert malicious code into the DNC’s computers, CrowdStrike’s Chief Technology Officer Dmitri Alperovitch …
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