Samsung promised us back in January that it'd be the first to offer the Verizon FiOS app for smart TVs and Blu-ray players, and it's now made good on that guarantee. The new app lets you stream from a selection of 26 live TV channels, headlined by CNN, MTV, HBO, TBS, TNT, Food Network and HGTV....
Verizon FiOS subscription most definitely required
Unfortunately, it's become commonplace for movie studios to make consumers wait almost two months before renting new releases from outlets like Redbox or Netflix, making a far more expensive movie purchase the only initial option. Fortunately,...
SiriusXM may be a major competitor to traditional AM/FM radio, but it has always maintained some of the limitations of that old tech. Most notably, subscribers were forced to tune in to shows at the specific times that they aired if the wanted to listen, but that's changing today with the launch of SiriusXM On Demand. The satellite radio company is offering up about 200 shows from...
The Mali 400 in the Samsung Galaxy S III has already proven to be a solid GPU, and now ARM has announced its second-generation 600 series Mali chips that plan to take mobile graphics processing even further. The company claims that the three new models — which include the quad-core T624 and the eight-core scalable T628 and T678 GPUs — will increase performance by 50 percent without drawing any extra power. According to Engadget, the second generation chips will even be able to handle "console-class gaming" and 4K and 8K videos, all while keeping smartphone, tablet, and smart TV UIs running smoothly.
To achieve this level of performance, ARM has introduced Adaptive Scalabe Texture Compression (ASTC), a versatile codec that standardizes graphics coding across multiple platforms. Adopted by the Khronos Group, ASTC technology will be...
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Many months ago, we received word of a somewhat unusual Motorola product: a 6-inch Android tablet tablet known as the Corvair, which was designed for controlling cable TV set-top boxes. We've heard scarcely a word about it since, but Engadget just received an image from a tipster showing off a...
Sales of physical computer games in the UK have hit an all-time low, according to new figures released by sales tracker UKIE/GfK. Retailers made £8.4 million (about $13 million) on sales of 394,688 games over the course of last week, with the...
