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The video game industry approaches 2017 facing digital issues not uncommon with packaged media in home entertainment and the music industry. Those challenges are affecting hardware... More

Here’s something you won’t see when firing up Hulu’s revamped apps, which the company is set to launch in the coming months in conjunction with its new live TV service: a liv... More

Slack wants to grow its user base by creating quality editorial content that resonates with audiences which is why it has spent the last year establishing its brand in podcasting a... More

Brightnesses above 1,000 nits might not initially seem that beneficial, but Dolby’s Vice President of Technology, Patrick Giffis, said that going beyond this brightness would hav... More

2016, in case you missed everyone bellowing about it, was the year virtual reality became a commercially available product.. It largely lived up to the much hyped "year of virtual ... More

Showtime's eagerly anticipated revival of David Lynch's Twin Peaks finally has a premiere date—Sunday, May 21. The 18-episode limited series will debut that evening with a two-ho... More

Sony has announced that a white version of the new PS4 base model (known to most as the PS4 Slim) will go on sale in Europe on 24 January, and in Japan and Asia from 23 February. A... More

DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group, along with the major music, consumer electronics and technology companies, announced during CES 2017 plans to support the expansion of the cur... More

Deluxe announced that long-time Deluxe post-production sales executive Russ Robertson has returned to the company as SVP of Sales, Encore New York, to support the growing demand fo... More

The 10Gbps fiber is a shared medium, which makes it very economical. You can run one fiber from a pedestal or network access point, do a 16-way split or a 32-way split, and then de... More

The streaming box isn’t perfect, but it’s getting close. We’ve got 4K, HDR, thousands of channels, and refined searches. How could a streaming media player do something innov... More

It's official: according to a new year-end report released by Nielsen, over the course of 2016, streaming became the primary mode of music consumption in the U.S. Overall on-demand... More

Nielsen has altered the preview of its Total Content Ratings system. Instead of allowing its media clients to analyze TCR data online as of January 1, it will provide off-line rep... More

Facebook is doing what many publishers had hoped it would one day do, according to Recode: opening up another key revenue stream for video producers. The so-called “mid-roll” ... More

Defining a higher sense of purpose at Salesforce was very important to Marc Benioff, founder, chairman and CEO of Salesforce. Purpose is something that allows Salesforce to functio... More

Computers have improved in almost every respect imaginable over the years, yet the way most of us listen to audio – a pair of cheap headphones or speakers – has remained woeful... More

Soon, the Consumer Electronics Show might pass the Diving Equipment & Marketing Association for the Las Vegas convention with the most goggles. Virtual reality continues to be a bi... More

Bigger, better, brighter: The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas has been reliably an event of superlatives for TV manufacturers. Each year, companies try to outdo each o... More

Amazon has been working behind the scenes in the area of artificial intelligence for more than four years. The AI behind recent innovations is machine learning, and more specifical... More

In a year full of milestones, 2016 became the first time ­streaming overtook sales as the music industry's dominant model, accounting for 51.3 percent of album consumption and bes... More