Tag Archives: sony

Last year, Microsoft announced Project xCloud, a gaming service that allows you to play video games streamed over the internet, kinda like how you watch Netflix streaming videos. Since then, it’s announced features and capabilities in dribs and drabs. On Friday, the company published a blog post discussing how the service uses hardware that’s similar …

Qualcomm illegally hurt competitors in the wireless chip market and used its dominant position to force unnecessary licensing fees on handset makers like Apple, US District Court Judge Lucy Koh said in a long-awaited ruling issued late Tuesday. Qualcomm must change how it does business and renegotiate license deals with its customers, according to the ruling, which came four months …

Vizio‘s 2019 sound bars, which include two new Dolby Atmos models, are available from today with prices ranging between $70 and $700. The new crop follows the company’s first Atmos sound bars from late 2018 and is designed to fill in gaps between existing models which are mostly 46-inch bars. The full range includes five sound bars — four 36-inch models and …

Last year Vizio’s customary place as best TV for the money was usurped by the TCL 6 series, which beat out Vizio’s M-Series for CNET’s Editors’ Choice award. Meanwhile, at the higher-end, an LG OLED got the award, but the superb Vizio P-Series Quantum earned a nod as the ideal OLED alternative for video-quality snobs without money to burn. Now four series …

To get the best TV picture quality, contrast is king. Most of the highest-performance imaging technologies, from HDR to OLED to FALD, aim for brighter whites and darker blacks, which lend TV images the power and dynamism to approach real life. Now there’s a new tech in town. China-based TV maker Hisense says it has achieved the highest contrast ever in …

Dolby’s Atmos home theater audio standard debuted back in 2014, and brought with the biggest change since the creation of surround sound itself: height. Dedicated drivers fire toward the ceiling, creating an even more immersive feel for TV shows and movies.  You can find Atmos soundtracks on Blu-ray discs and streaming services like Netflix and iTunes via more devices than ever, including …

Lots of viewers complained that the third episode of Game of Thrones season 8, The Long Night aka The Battle of Winterfell, was too dark. In response, the episode’s cinematographer Fabien Wagner channeled Steve Jobs and essentially said you’re holding it wrong. “A lot of the problem is that a lot of people don’t know how to tune their TVs properly,” Wagner said in …

If you list people’s complaints about virtual reality, they usually include how expensive the headsets can be, how clunky they are to connect by wire to a computer, and how there aren’t enough compelling games and apps. Facebook believes it’s about to make a big dent in all that with its new Oculus Quest. Powered by a self-contained onboard computer, …

If you speak Spanish or want to learn, Amazon’s Alexa will soon be able to help. Alexa will be able to speak Spanish in the US later this year, Amazon said in a blog post on Monday. The company launched a new voice model so developers can build skills for Spanish-speaking users in the US using the Alexa Skills Kit.  …

Oculus ignited people’s interest in virtual reality when it announced a Kickstarter for the Rift headset in 2012, promising high quality VR for $300.  Fast-forward seven years, after a more than $2 billion acquisition by Facebook and the 2016 release of the Rift, and Oculus is preparing to launch its next-generation VR headsets.  They’re called the Oculus Quest and the …