Audio Video News

A decade ago Sony was scrambling to recover from the infamous CD Rootkit Fiasco, brought about when Sony BMG, then the second largest music group, placed copyright protection software on 52 CDs.

Second-screen use is “creating a generation of kids for whom TV is punishment,” says Miner & Co. Studio.

Andrew Jones has an impressive history in loudspeakers, having served as the chief speaker engineer at KEF, Infinity, Technical Audio Devices Laboratories (TAD), and Pioneer, where he established a reputation for designing budget speakers that sound shockingly good. In May, following the merger of Pioneer and Onkyo, Germany’s ELAC announced that Jones had not only joined the company as vice president of engineering but was already working on a new line of speakers.

Wasting no time to prime the holiday selling season, Amazon today launched the “Black Friday Deals Store” and said Prime members, who pay $99 a year to get benefits such as free two-day shipping, will get early access to its one-per-customer Lightning Deals.

Our heads…er, hats…are off to Techradar’s Chris Hutton for putting together a fiendishly excellent guide to high-tech Halloween pranks.

The Audio History Library is displaying select gems from its collection of vintage audio gear at the 139th International AES Convention, which runs today through Sunday at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City.

3D graphics startup Uraniom has unveiled a new platform that turns raw 3D scans into playable videogame avatars, giving life to the longstanding dream of millions of gamers.