Articles by Stuart Sweet

AT&T issues statement about Barcelona

The following statement comes from AT&T’s news site: AT&T to Credit Our Wireline and Wireless Customers for All Calls and Text Messages from the USA to Barcelona Our thoughts are with the people of Barcelona…

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Streaming TV is broken. Come back to satellite.

That’s right, I said it. I didn’t just beat around the bush like SlashGear or LightReading. Those sites want to warn you about a possible future where practically every program you want will require its own streaming service….


NICE AND EASY: What is baseband video?

Another term that shouldn’t have you shaking your head. Nice and simple… baseband video is plain old video or audio over a wire. Think of composite video cables, or even HDMI. It’s a signal that isn’t…




FUN FRIDAY: Star Wars Sound Effects

There are two recurring themes running through Fun Friday, a column which this blog has featured for over five years. One is that I spend too much time obsessing about Star Wars, and the other is that I…


What is SCART?

A few weeks ago, I came smack dab against the limits of my knowledge. I’ve been playing with or working with home theater and audiovisual equipment now for about 35 years, and it’s fair to say…





Check out this Sabrent USB SD Card Reader

OK, so they say everything is in the cloud now. You don’t want flash drives or memory cards or god-forbid CD-ROMs. You just store everything up there and it just kind of gets where it needs…



Will AT&T sell off CNN if it buys Time Warner?

It’s all getting so confusing now. AT&T, parent company of DIRECTV, is trying to buy Time Warner. Time Warner is currently the parent company of CNN, Time Magazine, HBO, Warner Bros. Studios, Superman (and that whole crowd) and…