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The web's biggest video site is now adding captions to its videos. From now on, all videos uploaded will have optional captions transcribed from the audio through Google's speech recognition system. This is a massive expansion of YouTube's...

TiVo is one of the most recognizable brands in all of consumer electronics—so much so that the name of the company has become a verb in the popular lexicon, much like Xerox. After years of anticipation, TiVo today announced the next generation of its DVR platform—Premiere and Premiere XL.

 Walking past the TiVo booth at press events has been a little painful for a while now. They were always touting a new partnership or somethingl like that, but the same, increadingly old hardware still sat there on the table. But now...

Viewing 3D video can cause headache and blurred vision, according to a study undertaken at the University of California at Berkeley.

There's nerdy, and then there's too nerdy even for me. If you really, really love Marvel Comics, you can get an HDTV branded with a popular Marvel superhero or team. A company named RTC23 just announced that it will be releasing a full line of...

Panasonic's traveling road show for its new 2010 product line came to Los Angeles this week, and we were there. Most of the products shown or described at the event were first announced at last January's CES, where the featured attraction was 3D, with other new products taking second billing—if not in Panasonic's eyes, then in the eyes of most attendees. It was not that the new products were uninteresting; far from it. But 3D was king of the video mountain at CES 2010.