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Asha Sharma marked the conclusion of her first hundred days as Xbox CEO with a public blog post in which she called for the next hundred days to be a “reset” of the business. Highlighting the division’s low “accountability margin” and declining revenues, along with macro factors like the hardware component crisis, Sharma’s post was…

One feature used to be prominently displayed on the box of Sony’s PS5 consoles: a gold colored “8K” next to the “4K” and “HDR” badges in the upper right-hand corner. The “8K” quietly disappeared from the PS5 box in 2024, with few seeming to notice the omission. Perhaps it’s getting more attention now as Sony…

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The jump from Full High Definition (full HD) to Ultra High Definition (UHD) is truly enormous. In a 4K UHD display the number of pixels has been doubled on each axis of the grid, from 1920×1080 to 3840×2160. This means going from 2,073,600 pixels to 8,294,400 pixels, which quadruples the amount of fine detail that’s possible…

There was a time when admitting you watched the most popular show on television or knew the words to a chart-topping pop song felt like a form of personal failing. For years, a specific brand of cultural snobbery convinced us that true taste required constantly turning up our noses at anything embraced by the masses.