Dead Media Beat: Analog television

Five hauntings from the other side of technology.

Sony has new, spiffy see-through controllers and covers for its PlayStation 5 that let you see the hardware guts inside.

Samsung’s The Frame is the leading art TV for a reason. The matte display makes paintings look like museum pieces, not a glossy screensaver.

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Instagram’s long-form video update is more than a swipe at YouTube. It’s an attempt to capture the clip economy.

The metric might not mean much to laypeople, but leap seconds have been a source of contention in the timekeeping community for years. Now, they’re dead.

Samsung’s Frame and Frame Pro are both on sale, as well as some of our other favorite art TVs.

The price of anything with memory is skyrocketing thanks to AI. Aging streaming devices are no exception.

The artist’s macabre short works have been adapted into eerily freaky 30-minute bites for television. We got a sneak preview of the next episode airing on HBO Max.

This screen-free soundstage starter kit opens a world of audio fun for kids aged 3 years and up.

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Goldmund’s $240,000 Mimesis Statement is an exercise in extreme Swiss sound engineering—and only one part of a $1.5 million audio setup.