4K Ultra HD TV: What You Can Watch Right Now
Television's latest upgrade, 4K Ultra High Definition, is both awesome and increasingly affordable. (See my earlier piece for details.) I just bought one on sale. Now I’m scrounging around to find...
View Article4K Ultra HD TV: How It Works And What You'll Need To Watch It
Just a few short months ago, you'd have been stupid—or at least carelessly wealthy—to buy an Ultra HD TV, or 4K television. There were so few 4K videos available that it was nearly impossible to...
View Article"The Interview" Could Make Online Premieres Popular In Hollywood
The Interview's lasting impact won't stem from being a mediocre film turned into an accidental symbol of freedom, or because it marks James Franco’s descent into the bowels of bad acting (though both...
View ArticleYouTube Fired Flash, Clearing HTML5's Last Obstacle For World Domination
After 10 years, YouTube gave Adobe Flash the heave-ho as its default video player on Tuesday. Instead, the site announced it would default to HTML5 to play its never-ending roster of cat clips, Taylor...
View ArticleHappy 10th, YouTube: This Is Your Life—And Ours
YouTube, the video-sharing website and ad revenue machine, turns 10 years old on Saturday, otherwise known as Valentine's Day. Over a decade, the site went from humble beginnings to the height of...
View ArticleNon-Apple-Using Cord Cutters Can Also Get HBO—Via Sling TV
Apple’s exclusivity arrangement for the HBO Now standalone streaming service hasn’t been broken … technically. Apple TV will still be the only streaming set-top box to offer the app. But the deal has...
View ArticleRoku Gets In The Voice Game
Voice features have become the “it” trend in consumer technology, and Roku wants in on the action. The streaming TV box maker announced a new set of devices Monday that will let Roku users forget about...
View ArticleHere Are The Best Ways To Watch HBO—Ahem, "Game Of Thrones"—Online
Mere days before the Game of Thrones season premiere on April 12, cord-cutters suddenly have more ways to watch HBO than ever before.These include HBO Now, which rolled out to the Apple TV and...
View ArticleHow The New Apple MacBook Retired Steve Jobs’s Vision Of Computing
In 2001, Steve Jobs shared a vision of computing that would inform his company's road map for years to come. Before a Macworld audience, the late Apple co-founder explained that the personal computer...
View ArticleYouTube Red Bundles The Best Media Google's Got Into One Subscription
After many months of speculation, YouTube has finally unveiled its premium subscription service: $9.99 a month for ad-free viewing and listening, offline caching and a raft of other features too. It's...
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