sound quality

Sundance puts mobiles in the spotlight

News Another hurdle could be the quality of the video being offered. Quality certainly enters the picture," said Redford. I don't want to sound arrogant, but Sundance has built up an image that represents a certain kind of film.

9 November 2006, 10:00

News.blog: 'WoW' expansion delayed

News We feel confident that the extra time spent polishing the game will result in the high-quality experience that our players expect and deserve," the AP quoted Blizzard president and co-founder Mike Morhaime as saying in a press release.

25 October 2006, 9:19

Apple and EMI strike DRM-free deal

News EMI will soon sell digital music with better sound quality and no digital rights management restrictions through Apple's iTunes Store. The higher-quality, DRM-free music, which can be played on any computer and any digital-audio player, will not...

3 April 2007, 10:13

BBC iPlayer gets 2.0 facelift

News Radio is more prominent with 'Listen Again' and live radio available with improved sound quality and the ability to rewind and fast forward on the listen again service. The BBC's iPlayer on-demand TV service has undergone a major facelift designed...

Tags: beta, section, listen, programme

26 June 2008, 8:58

Google launches its instant-messaging tool

News After playing with Google Talk, Sullivan gave it strong marks for sound quality but said it lacked video chat, which Yahoo offers, and complained that it doesn't index and make searchable text chats as Google Desktop does for AOL and MSN Messenger...

24 August 2005, 9:49

How widespread are Xbox 360 problems?

News Clearly, Microsoft has been constrained in the number of products it has been able to get into the channel," said Ross Rubin, director of industry analysis at The NPD Group, "and so perhaps they've been pretty aggressive in terms of getting supply...

30 November 2005, 9:55

News.blog: New top-end Olympus dSLR in October?

News The fourth lens, a 70-300mm model of more ordinary quality, has an aperture of F/4.0-5.6, has specs that match an official June announcement from Olympus. But back to the alleged E-P1 specs, which sound pretty good:

13 July 2007, 8:44

German Wikipedia plans to stop vandals

News An experimental feature planned for the German version of Wikipedia could eventually improve the quality of editing for the online encyclopedia and open its front page to public edits for the first time in years.

24 August 2006, 9:25

Is Microsoft finally listening to Web developers?

News We are very excited about how this relationship has progressed and with the resulting increased quality of our standards support across our products. The WaSP has helped provide sound advice, real-life customer experience and appropriate input to...

5 August 2005, 9:10

Living in the Wi-Fi city

News Sustainable quality in terms of access services is not free. Such sentiments sound praiseworthy, but is it really going to happen? Progressive local authorities in Europe and the US are plunging into a new technology trend by rolling out free Wi-Fi...

20 December 2006, 10:29

Ten tech YouTube clips you shouldn't miss

News Finkelstein said it's his "tribute to their low quality technology and their poor customer service". Whether intended or not, the sound effects help show a darker side of what otherwise appears to be a holiday dream come true.

21 July 2006, 10:14

These walls (and teddy bears) have eyes

News Another experimental technology, called Robust Video Superresolution, seeks to improve the quality of video and still images captured on small digital cameras and mobile phones. Though it might sound Orwellian in the abstract, the system is being...

10 June 2005, 9:35

'Chicken Little' gives glimpse of digital 3D

News After all, 3D fads have come and gone for years, and most audiences seem to be happy with increasingly high-quality 2D films. The studio is touting its work with sound specialist Dolby Laboratories, effects house Industrial Light and Magic and 3D...

7 November 2005, 10:19

News.blog: Hands on with the Wii

News I also noticed, while playing the Zelda demo, that the Wii graphics aren't likely to be mistaken for the higher quality of the Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3. Then, when you hook a fish and are pulling it back in, the built-in speaker makes just the...

17 October 2006, 9:33

Hopes for legal music podcasts on the rise

News If the most important part is to ensure the songs they broadcast aren't used as substitutes for purchased music, podcasters could agree to use a format that doesn't provide CD-quality music, such as 128 kilobytes per second MP3s, Ibbott said.

17 June 2005, 10:05