When did you first become cynical about the electronics industry? Was it when VHS went out of style, and you had to buy all your movies again on DVD? Was it the time(s) you never got the rebate you ...

Who doesn’t hate a bad phone connection, but just how bad does a connection have to be before you’re willing to pay for a really good one? That’s the question telephony vendors are wondering, as they ...

The high-definition format war is officially over. Toshiba will stop shipments of HD DVD players and recorders by March and will end production of HD DVD drives for computers as well. The company ...

If you believe the PR hype, almost all the companies at last week's NAB convention in Las Vegas seemed to be showing off the same thing. Not "systems," not "products," but the universal buzzword ...

After a murky couple of years in which myriad formats were introduced, there’s at least some “definition” as to what the next generation of DVD will look like and when it will appear. The clarity on ...

Add one more ingredient to the confusingly thick acronym soup of high-definition video: HDMI. Adoption of standard-def DVD was undoubtedly quickened by the fact that consumers could plug their new ...

Now the era of the flat panel has arrived, we're all falling in love with high-definition video. We've got games consoles, HD DVD and Blu-ray and some patchy TV services from the likes of Sky and ...

Most people, particularly millennials and Generation Z, wouldn't stand for watching videos on a boxy, grainy television set. Yet, that's essentially the equivalent of the poor-quality sound they get ...

The consumer electronics market is being flooded with devices that have incredible high-resolution screens. All the new iPhones and high-end Android phones have them. The 10-in. iPad has one, as do ...