Microsoft didn't have a booth or even an official press event at the Consumer Electronics Show this year, but that didn't stop the company from jumping on stage twice. CEO Steve Ballmer joined Qualcomm for its bizarre opening keynote, and more importantly Microsoft’s Chief Technology Strategy...
Redmond's fascination with augmented reality continues
Samsung's gigantic ultra high-definition TVs have finally gotten a price, at least in Korea. In a release, Samsung announced that it would soon begin a very limited pre-order for the 85-inch model, which we've previously heard will be released in...
On Friday, news broke that CNET had been forced by its parent company CBS to remove the Dish Network's Hopper set-top box from its "Best of CES" awards due to ongoing litigation between the two companies. CBS has been battling the Dish Network in court over the Hopper's ability to skip past commercials automatically (NBC, ABC, and Fox are also taking action).
CBS Interactive representatives...
4K TV was one of the biggest stories of CES, but the question remains: how will users get native content? International satellite TV operator Eutelsat Communications made its first attempt at answering that question last week with the first 4K broadcast demonstration for Europe last week. The broadcasts began on January 8th and are being sent at 3,840 x 2,160 resolution at 50 frames per second. The signal itself is delivered in MPEG-4, and is transmitted at 40 Mbit / second in four "quad HD" streams. It's not clear exactly what kind of content is being broadcast at the moment, but the timing is no coincidence — Eutelsat timed its launch specifically to correspond with the flood of news around 4K at CES last week. Of course, the only 4K TVs on the market are the definition of "prohibitively expensive," and there's still no actual...
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What's it like founding, running, and vigorously defending one of the internet's most loved — and loathed — websites? Upcoming documentary TBP AFK looks at the day-to-day lives of the founders of popular torrent tracker The Pirate Bay as they defend their site from a never-ending sea of...
Apple TV owners in Germany have an option on their home screens that's new in more ways than one. Vivendi's new subscription service Watchever only launched for the web on Wednesday, but it's already officially listed as a content provider for...
At CES, Broadcom announced its new ARM-based Ultra HD video decoder, which will be able to handle 4K content using the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard. HEVC, otherwise known as H.265, allows content to be delivered at 4K resolution or at 1080p while using about...
