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Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 21, 2009
Hundreds of movies and thousands of TV shows will appear legally on YouTube thanks to a deal involving the video site, Sony Pictures, and 11 other media companies.
SV Staff  |  Dec 19, 2008
YouTube has had HD videos for a while now, but finding that HD content has been a bit like finding a needle in a haystack. Looks like they've made it much, much easier.Now, once you go to the Video page, there's a link to all the HD...
SV Staff  |  Jun 10, 2008
YouTube is breaking out of your computer and hitting the big screen.  Well... bigger screen, that is. Sony just announced that YouTube is now available on Sony's Bravia Internet Video Link service. How does it work? Sony's Bravia televisions...
SV Staff  |  Jan 31, 2019
Sonos has announced that subscribers of YouTube Music and YouTube Premium can now access the YouTube Music streaming service through the Sonos app.
SV Staff  |  Jul 09, 2010
YouTube's latest addition is surprising, cutting-edge, and wildly unnecessary. The video site can now accept 4K high-definition video. 4K video is video with a resolution of 4096 x 3072, almost four times higher resolution than 1080p video and...
SV Staff  |  Dec 02, 2016
Last month YouTube announced that it had added support for high dynamic range (HDR) video and this week the online video community announced that it is rolling out of 4K live streaming for 360-degree and standard videos.
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jun 08, 2007
The boundary between television and the internet blurred a little further on Monday, when Hearst-Argyle Television and YouTube announced a deal that would bring local news to the popular video-sharing service.
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 28, 2011
YouTube is planning to move further into movie rentals, enlarging a small existing operation to include more major titles.

What, you didn't know YouTube does movie rentals? The Google-owned site started renting indie films in partnership with the Sundance Film Festival in January 2010. But now the push is on to make YouTube's rental service more of a mainstream operation like Netflix or iTunes.

Mark Fleischmann  |  Oct 10, 2008
YouTube is getting into the media retail business. Soon the site that feeds video clips to millions will be selling music, movies, TV shows, games, books, and concert tickets.
SV Staff  |  Nov 21, 2008
The one claim - okay, one of a few claims - that Hulu had over YouTube was the quality of the video. But, crafty YouTube viewers have scrounged around and found a few HD-quality videos mixed into the regular, pixelated, sputtering content we all...
SV Staff  |  May 10, 2018
Mark your calendar: Control4, a leading provider of smart home solutions, wants you to experience the marvels of smart home technology in one of the 140 Control4 Certified Showrooms it recently opened in the U.S., Canada, U.K., China, and Australia.
SV Staff  |  Dec 03, 2008
Who needs a real fireplace when you can enjoy a faux fireplace - in HD no less? Did everyone grow up in areas that broadcast Yule Logs? WPIX in NY City had it every year when I was growing up. It wouldn't be the holidays without it. Now, HD...
 |  Jun 21, 1998

Yves Faroudja, founder and Chief Technical Officer of <A HREF="http://www.faroudja.com/">Faroudja Laboratories</A>, has been awarded the Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award by the <A HREF="http://www.emmys.org/rindex.html">National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences</A>.

SV Staff  |  Apr 03, 2017
Addressing consumer concerns over smart home security and privacy, the Z-Wave Alliance has announced that it will require strict and uniform adoption of a new, advanced security protocol for all smart home devices submitted for certification.
SV Staff  |  Jun 27, 2016
Chinese startup XGIMI, which recently shipped its crowd-funded Z4 Aurora Smart LED Projector to backers, is now offering the mini projector on Amazon.

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