The Verge

OCTOBER 3, 2020

One thing that did surprise me was the audio. There’s probably no laptop I’ve tested this year, of any size or price, that I’d rather watch a movie on. The ZenBook’s audio is certified by Harman Kardon and includes a “smart amplifier chip” that’s meant to prevent damage to the speakers’ coils.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The new regular AirPods get a lot right even before the gimmicky spatial audio part For the first time since their introduction in 2016, Apple’s AirPods have a completely new design. The third-gen AirPods have redesigned drivers and support spatial audio with head tracking.

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The Verge

JUNE 8, 2021

The audio quality has been further refined, and Sony added key features it frustratingly omitted last time — like IPX4 water and sweat resistance. The 1000XM4s also raise the bar for wireless audio and battery life in noise-canceling earbuds. But Sony’s audio prowess extends through all frequencies.

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The Verge

AUGUST 13, 2021

There’s a USB port if you want to plug in a drive that contains your FLAC collection or whatever local audio you feel like playing. The soundbar also supports pretty much every home theater audio codec under the sun, including Dolby Atmos and DTS:X. Surprisingly there’s no preset audio mode for gaming.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Whether you're a professional or just picked it up as a hobby, photography nerds know that the Sony a7R II is an incredible piece of equipment. Apple stepped up its audio game with the AirPods Pro, which feature active noise cancellation. Use it to play movies, shows, or games outside on a screen or indoors on a blank wall.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

All of these headphones now do a tremendous job of quieting your surroundings and putting you in a private bubble with your music, podcasts, movies, or whatever else you’re using them for. There’s still the Bose-standard 2.5mm audio jack for wired listening with the included 2.5-to-3.5mm Photography by Chris Welch / The Verge.

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The Verge

JUNE 22, 2020

The new XPS 15 has three USB-C ports as well as an SD-card reader, an audio jack, and a lock slot. The XPS comes preinstalled with the Waves MaxxAudio Pro driver where you can enable 3D audio and toggle between various presets. Photography by Monica Chin / The Verge. percent screen-to-body ratio. That’s gone.

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The Verge

JANUARY 26, 2021

and an audio combo jack on the left and two Type-A USB 3.2 separate input and output audio jacks, and an SD card reader (though that reader was frustratingly slow according to reviewers ). Game audio was fine with a decent surround quality — but not the best I’ve ever heard and not as good as you’d get from a decent external speaker.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Razer’s second set of true wireless earbuds nail fit and audio but fall flat elsewhere Razer’s Hammerhead True Wireless Pro earbuds are a major improvement over the company’s first pair of true wireless earbuds. In Apple’s case, that’s Spatial Audio. Photography by Chris Welch / The Verge.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

In my tests, Prime Video and Disney Plus did a good job getting the most out of the Fire TV Stick’s video and audio specs and regularly delivered both HDR and Atmos, but you’ll find that not all services will serve those with a 1080p stream. These are a few I saw as I moved down the Home tab: Pluto TV — free movies and TV shows — sponsored.

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The Verge

JULY 17, 2021

I was delighted when I heard a car offscreen and the audio tracked as it passed through the scene from the left to right speakers. Maybe I’m easily impressed by these things, but I can see myself genuinely enjoying watching a movie or a show on the Xperia 1 III, rather than as a last resort to stave off boredom.

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The Verge

JULY 10, 2020

The Envy comes with stereo speakers and a Bang & Olufsen audio control center. There, you can swap between presets for Music, Movie, and Voice, as well as equalizer settings for different tunes. Photography by Monica Chin / The Verge. In a perfect world, given the lack of Thunderbolt, HDMI would be on my wishlist.

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2021

On the left: two USB-A, one audio jack. The G15’s speakers are also plenty loud enough that you shouldn’t have a problem hearing your game’s audio over the fans. The Strix also comes preloaded with Dolby Access software, where you can swap between profiles for games, movies, music, and voice. There’s one USB-C 3.2

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2021

But it’s much harder to do the same thing with a projector when they’re mounted to ceilings or placed on a coffee table for an impromptu movie or gaming night with friends. Movie mode includes 60Hz MEMC motion compensation, which I promptly disabled. The audio from the Horizon Pro sounded fuller by comparison. inches / 6.6

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The Verge

MAY 26, 2021

However, the 2021 Apple TV 4K still doesn’t support bitstream audio passthrough, so the company hasn’t addressed all the wants of home theater enthusiasts. Thankfully, Apple has evolved and added to tvOS elsewhere in recent years with new features like multiuser support, Apple Fitness Plus , and HomePod home theater audio.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The Cosmos Plus come with a color-matched hard case, charging cable, audio cable, and boom mic in the box. As for the audio specs, the Cosmos Plus have 40mm neodymium drivers, similar to many other over-ear Bluetooth headphones. This is a convenient feature when two kids are watching the same movie on a single device.

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The Verge

JANUARY 26, 2021

Audio is also pretty good. In the preloaded Dolby Access app, you can also switch between presets for music, gaming, movies, etc. and PD support), one audio combo jack, and one HDMI 2.0b Photography by Monica Chin / The Verge. The X13 could be a great choice for anyone who needs a 13.4-inch one DP 1.4,

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

The Tab S7 Plus, in particular, provides the best movie watching experience you can hold in your hands. This isn’t a problem when you’re watching movies or YouTube, but when it comes time to get work done, the Tab S7 models feel cramped. The best experience with the Tab S7 is when you’re watching movies or TV shows. Performance.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

While the screen loses luminance when you aren’t looking at it straight-on, the colors and contrast mostly hold up, so watching a movie or gaming with a buddy on the couch should be fine. Listening to games through the built-in speakers, the fans didn’t eclipse the game audio. I felt similarly about game audio.

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The Verge

MARCH 3, 2021

Audio is standard laptop fare: it gets impressively loud without audible distortion, but percussion and bass are almost nonexistent. You can swap to “Movie Mode” and “Gaming Mode” in the Dolby Audio software that comes preloaded on the Vaio Z, and I preferred listening to my music on these profiles.

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The Verge

MARCH 28, 2021

one SD slot, one combo audio jack, and an optional Nano-SIM card slot. And the stereo speakers are fine, delivering distortion-free audio with percussion and bass that are audible but not exceptional. Photography by Monica Chin / The Verge. Ports include two USB 3.2 Gen 1, two Thunderbolt 3, one HDMI 2.0,

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The Verge

APRIL 19, 2021

On the left side is a 3.5mm jack that will pass the audio from your Roku TV or Roku streaming device to whatever headphones you plug in. But you can also use the shortcut buttons for searches (“show me free movies”), input selection (“switch to antenna TV”), or TV controls (“turn the volume up,” “turn on closed captioning”).

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The Verge

JULY 10, 2020

The port selection is sparse, with the audio jack and two USB-C ports comprising all of what it has to offer. The Flex 5G’s 2-in-1 design adds more use cases with its tent mode, allowing you to post up and stream a movie over 5G if you want. Photography by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge.

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The Verge

AUGUST 12, 2021

In addition to the form factor, the Folio’s audio makes it a decent videoconferencing machine. I’ve been looking for a portable, durable secondary device that I could use to get some work done or watch a movie or two on weekend trips. Photography by Monica Chin/The Verge. Here it is in clamshell mode. Here it is in tablet mode.

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The Verge

JULY 16, 2021

Amazon’s big, cheap tablet can now be had many different ways Amazon’s lineup of Fire tablets has settled into a familiar routine: they are available in small, medium, and large; they are priced far lower than comparable iPads; and they are mostly good for reading and watching movies or TV, with content likely supplied by Amazon itself.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 8, 2021

I struggled to find a good use case for this mode other than watching movies on an airplane tray table or poking around on the touchscreen, as the angle of the display is still too vertical to comfortably write on it with a pen. Photography by Dan Seifert / The Verge. A side view of the Surface Laptop Studio in tent mode.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

hub and a 3.5mm audio output, which worked perfectly with my keyboard’s USB and 3.5mm audio passthrough. While you might imagine 32:9 being great for movies, I had a hard time finding anything I could play in ultra high definition that wasn’t 16:9. Photography and screenshots by Sean Hollister / The Verge.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 26, 2025

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MARCH 4, 2025

(Suleyman says he remains friendly with Hassabis, but argues that competition fuels creativity, noting that in February, he recruited the engineers responsible for one of Googles best-received uses of AI: its uncanny Audio Overview synthetic podcasts.) In terms of raw users, Copilot has some catching up to do. million in January.

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