Are sound cards still relevant? Recently, I supplemented my desktop's arsenal of hardware with a stand-alone Asus Xonar DX sound card. This upgrade was something of a shot in... Type: Blog post Tags: Multimedia |
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Creative announces quad-core Core3D audio processor The pace of progress in the PC audio market can probably be best described as glacial. Brace yourself, though, because another chunk just fell... Type: News story Tags: Multimedia |
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The next computing revolution will be televised Up until very recently, I had been able to remain faithful to my home-theater PC. Well, that's not entirely true. I've gone through... Type: Blog post Tags: Multimedia |
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Poll: The third dimension I went to see the new Harry Potter movie the other day, and predictably, the most convenient screening available at 9 PM on a Saturday... Poll Question: • When it comes to stereoscopic 3D, I prefer: Type: News story Tags: Multimedia Gaming |
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Microsoft adds RAW preview support to Windows 7 Fellow photographers, rejoice! After a quick codec pack download, those of you running Windows 7 or Vista should be able to preview RAW files straight... Type: News story Tags: Multimedia |
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Release roundup: Fresh PSUs, gaming headphones, and a dock No doubt owing to the ongoing summer lull, the pickings are slim this week as far as new product introductions go. Still, our inbox has... Type: News story Tags: Multimedia Power Storage |
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Deal of the week: $1/GB solid-state storage and more We've got a cornucopia of deals for you this week, starting with an eye-popping bargain on a 64GB solid-state drive. Kingston's SSDNow V100 64GB currently... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Multimedia Storage Memory |
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Amazon Cloud Drive gets sort-of-unlimited music storage Clearly, Amazon isn't taking the impending arrival of iCloud lying down. The company has announced three improvements that make Cloud Drive and Cloud Player... Type: News story Tags: Multimedia Internet |
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Google adds thousands of movies to YouTube Watch out, Netflix! Google has gone and updated its YouTube Movies service with thousands of new titles from major studios, including plenty of... Type: News story Tags: Multimedia Internet |
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Psyko Audio Labs reveals new surround-sound headsets About a year ago, we got our first taste of Psyko Audio's unique 5.1-channel PC gaming headset. Rather than using signal processing to... Type: News story Tags: Multimedia |
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Microsoft focuses Zune efforts on software Microsoft recently told news agencies it has "nothing to announce about another Zune device," giving rise to the belief it won't produce another handheld... Type: News story Tags: Multimedia Personal tech |
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24-bit audio may be coming to iTunes, other music services Everyone's all about high-definition video these days. Standard-def content? Pfft. Call me when you've got a resolution of at least 720p. ... Type: News story Tags: Multimedia Internet |
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Deal of the week: Solid-state storage, budget audio, and Corsair cooling Hot on the heels of early previews of OCZ's next-gen Vertex 3 solid-state drive, Newegg has slashed the price of the existing Vertex 2. ... Type: News story Tags: Multimedia Cooling Storage Gaming |
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Surround sound virtualized by new Antec stereo speakers Better known for its enclosures and power supplies, Antec is getting into the audio business. Yesterday, the company formally introduced its first set of... Type: News story Tags: Multimedia |
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Adobe releases completed Flash 10.2 plug-in Flash has hit another milestone. After a few public betas, the Flash Player 10.2 plug-in is now out in complete, production-ready form. The headline... Type: News story Tags: Multimedia Software |
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On bandwidth quotas and streaming video If Canada isn't off your radar completely, you've probably heard about the recent fuss over a CRTC ruling that effectively forced independent Internet service providers... Type: Blog post Tags: Multimedia Internet |
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Famous film editor makes case against 3D Some consider stereoscopic 3D to be the next frontier in movies and games, much like talking pictures and color movies were in the first part... Type: News story Tags: Multimedia Gaming |
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Xonar DG sound card squeezed into USB thumb drive We're big fans of Asus' Xonar sound cards. Numerous models have passed through our labs over the last few years, and most have won... Type: News story Tags: Multimedia |
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Samsung 970 Pro NVMe SSDs are ready to take a licking | 6 |
Gaming bench status update: I'm collecting a whole new set of numbers out of caution because of some weird deltas I'm observing upon retesting some co... | +37 |