Audio Video News

What's that gutteral oinking and snorting sound? That's the sound of a video game console at the energy trough. Leave the console on and you might add more than a hundred bucks a year to your power bill.

Legit download music sales have passed a notable milestone at Warner's historic Atlantic Records. The label now sells more downloads than CDs. This is believed to be a major-label first.

Now that Sirius and XM have combined, the joint service is encountering some turbulence. Listeners are irked that familiar channel lineups are changing.

If you recognize the name Doom9, the lusty hacker forum, you probably know what's coming in the next sentence. Blu-ray has been thoroughly hacked.

As the DTV transition looms in February 2009, some TV stations are worrying that their signal dispersion pattern may shrink or change shape. To deal with that potential problem, the Federal Communications Commission has green-lighted distributed transmission systems (DTS). This is essentially a fix that would allow the usual single broadcast tower to be supplemented with additional transmitters.

So Circuit City has filed for bankruptcy protection. What's in store for the nation's third largest consumer electronics retailer (after Best Buy and Wal-Mart)?

Recent store closures have not been enough to save Circuit City from the apocalypse. The mega-chain has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.