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Kaare Eriksen writes via Variety: As the Digital Entertainment Group, the trade association for home entertainment, tells it, business is better than ever: The U.S. consumer spend on home entertainment grew 11.4% year over year in 2022, totaling nearly… Continue reading Why the Disc Format Has Yet To Die For Some TV Series
Netflix has removed its “Surprise Me” button, a feature introduced in 2021 to alleviate the modern burden of choosing something to watch from thousands of titles. MarketWatch reports: The company discontinued the feature last month because of relativel… Continue reading Netflix Drops ‘Surprise Me’ Shuffle-Play Button
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Walt Disney Co. is exploring more licensing of its films and television series to rival media outlets as pressure grows to curb the losses in its streaming TV business. The Burbank, California-based e… Continue reading Disney Explores the Sale of More Films and TV Series To Rivals
The release candidate for Winamp version 5.9.1 builds on the groundwork laid by August’s 5.9 update to fix some bugs and add new features to the reanimated music player. “Most of these are straightforward updates or improvements to existing features, b… Continue reading New Winamp Update Adds Features, Fixes, and (Sigh) Support For ‘Music NFTs’
Women in the tech, media and telecom industries feel more stress, less visibility and poor work-life balance compared to in-person or fully remote workers, a new Deloitte study finds.
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CNN has ended its big Web3 project by announcing, “we have decided that it’s time to say goodbye to the Vault by CNN.” From a report: You may have already forgotten about it, but Vault by CNN launched in the summer of 2021 as a marketplace for its own … Continue reading CNN Accused of Rug Pull as It Abandons Its NFT Project
Spotify has purchased a company called Kinzen to help it detect and address harmful content in podcasts and other audio formats. Engadget reports: Kinzen uses machine learning and human expertise to analyze possibly harmful content and hate speech acro… Continue reading Spotify Acquires Company That Detects Harmful Content In Podcasts
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Last week, Swiss software engineer Matthias Buhlmann discovered that the popular image synthesis model Stable Diffusion could compress existing bitmapped images with fewer visual artifacts than JPE… Continue reading Better Than JPEG? Researcher Discovers That Stable Diffusion Can Compress Images
Netflix is forming an in-house game studio in Helsinki, Finland to create “world-class” original games without ads or in-app purchases. Engadget reports: While it’s too soon for details of the games themselves, Zynga and EA alumnus Marko Lastikka will … Continue reading Netflix Is Building Its Own Game Studio
According to Phoronix, Google has released a new AOM-AV1 update — version 3.5, that drastically improves encode times when streaming, rendering, or recording from the CPU. At its best, the update can improve encoding times by up to 34%. Tom’s Hardware… Continue reading AV1 Update Reduces CPU Encoding Times By Up To 34 Percent