Audio Video News

Gatefold LPs and CDs with copious booklets seduced past generations of listeners with form factors that made them want to buy longform music--and settle down for long, pleasurable evenings playing it. While these formats are not exactly dead, a struggle has broken out over what kind of longform digital music album will succeed them in the age of downloads.

New York City's new electronics recycling law has attracted criticism from two major trade groups who point to what they call "disastrous" consequences.

BD-Live bonus features are coming to Apple's iPhone and iPod touch.

Here's a lead graf that sounds a bit like "I saw Grandma dancing with a hula hoop": Microsoft is planning to launch a music streaming service.

According to a story today in Japan's <I>Yomiuri Shimbun</I> newspaper, Toshiba will enter the Blu-ray market with players that can read BDs and DVDs by the end of this year.

With Netflix signing streaming deals with everyone in sight, it was only a matter of time till Blockbuster cut a streaming deal with a major manufacturer--and Samsung is pretty major. Blockbuster streaming will come to Samsung HDTVs and Blu-ray players with the first models coming this fall.

As the economy continues to stutter, what novel ideas are manufacturers coming up with to tempt cost-conscious consumers?