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Now playing: Watch this: Is your body ready for VR arcades? 1:15 It was life or death. Human or dinosaur. I didn’t hesitate. I stuck out my actual, flesh-and-bone human leg, and kicked a virtual dinosaur in the face. It was kind of dumb and kind of exhilarating at the same time. Dumb, because the …

People are surprisingly willing to try goofy-looking VR headsets. They’re just not ready to buy. Facebook, owner of Oculus VR, is hoping that may change with a new lower price. On Wednesday, the company announced a permanent $100 price cut for each of its $599 Oculus Rift headset and $199 Touch motion controllers. They now cost $499 and $99 respectively, …

Now playing: Watch this: Hottest phones unveiled at MWC 2017 2:50 Every year phone manufacturers from all over the world flock to Barcelona to unveil their latest devices at Mobile World Congress, leaving us with a batch of brand new phones to compete for our attention. And this year is no exception. Which ones are worth your precious time? We’ve …

Day one of Mobile World Congress 2017 is in the books. While it didn’t have the same bells and whistles we saw during yesterday’s preshow press conferences, the first official day of the world’s biggest showcase for mobile devices and technology still offered a few noteworthy products. Here are some of the most interesting things we saw: Sony wows with …

Now playing: Watch this: Capture your world in super slow motion with Sony’s new… 1:32 This year’s Mobile World Congress has barely kicked off and we’ve already seen some great hardware from the likes of LG and Sony. I’ve put Sony’s shiny new flagship — the XZ Premium — up against the more affordable Xperia XZS, LG’s G6 and the …

If you own a home theater receiver, you can improve its performance by taking some time to set it up properly. Most AV receivers have manual and auto speaker setup or calibration features, and even if you’ve already used an automated system you can make your system sound even better with manual tweaks. But is a manual calibration for you? …

Dolby has announced that its HDR standard Dolby Vision is now fully software-based, meaning that existing devices such as consoles and televisions can take advantage of it. “There are implementations that can run Dolby Vision in software, certainly in the console space but also in the TV SoC (System On a Chip) space,” Dolby reps said Friday in Forbes. Dolby …

For the last couple of years the best TV picture quality has come courtesy of LG’s OLED TVs. They’ve also been the most expensive. Thanks to a combination of LG’s aggressive price drops and high initial pricing by rivals like Samsung and now Sony, however, the relative price of OLED isn’t sky-high anymore. Sony’s latest 2017 LCD-based TVs are now …

The frontrunners for CNET’s highest rated TV of 2017 now have official pricing, and it’s not cheap. LG’s least expensive new OLED so far, the C7 series, starts at $3,500. That’s the cost for the 55-inch size, available this month. The 65-inch model will sell for $5,000 when it hits the market in March. Those prices are $1,000 more than …

When the first curved TVs appeared more than three years ago I asked whether they were a gimmick. As a TV reviewer I had to give the curve a fighting chance, however, so I took a curved Samsung home to live with my family for awhile, in addition to subjecting it to a full CNET review. In the end, I …