A few people at CES this year were showing off 4K LCD TVs, which are four times the standard HD resolution that we’re all used to by now. Yawn. Sharp , on the other hand, has an 8K LCD, which is sixteen times HD. It’s glorious.

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World’s first 8K TV will make your eyes explode in ultra high res

It’s a rare day around here when we get excited about something as potentially mundane as a pair of Bluetooth headphones. Parrot has really gotten creative with Zik, though, and the headphones are packed with futuristic features that you’ll likely end up using every single day.

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Parrot’s Zik packs in the tech to make headphones exciting again

The FCC has adopted the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act, which will require ads to be broadcast at volumes no louder than the volume of the show that they’re running with. Until now, ads have been louder because YELLING AT PEOPLE MAKES THEM WANT BUY YOUR STUFF. Idiots.

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FCC tells TV advertisers to turn their damn commercials down

Ready for your Xbox 360 to also become your FiOS cable box ? If you’re an existing Verizon FiOS TV, Internet and Xbox Live Gold member, you can get all your TV shows from your 360 — with Kinect controls. Hot diggity!

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Verizon FiOS cable TV heads to Xbox 360 next month

I’ll bet you never thought you’d be jealous of Canada (of all places), but cable companies there have started offering packages where you can pay for only the channels you watch. Meanwhile, here in the U.S., cable providers are still covering their ears and loudly yelling that doing this exact same thing is impossible.

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Canadians get a la carte cable, U.S. providers bury heads in sand

We heard a rumor that CBS was undertaking the monumental task of completely remastering all of Star Trek: The Next Generation in glorious HD, and it’s just been confirmed: Season 1 is going to be available as early as next year.

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All of Star Trek: TNG coming to Blu-ray starting next year

Apparently people weren’t messing around when they were complaining about Netflix’s recent price hikes: Netflix says the company expects to lose one million customers because of the pricing change . One million !

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Netflix’s price hike to cost the company one million customers

There are so many great ideas out there, but when someone gets it right, you have to be sure to praise such efforts and hope others follow suit. This is the case with the new Cull.tv , a new form of music television that takes Web television rapidly in the right direction.

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MTV has met its match, and may be the future of Internet TV

Going to the movies can be pretty frustrating if you’re hard of hearing. At home you can turn on the closed captioning, but in a public theater you’re left trying to read lips. These subtitle glasses solve that problem, by giving you your own personal set of subtitles to read.

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Subtitle glasses let deaf theater customers enjoy the movies

Through the magic of science or optics or something, LCD screens are able to create white light by mixing other colors of light. This works fine, but not being satisfied with “fine,” Sony has gone and added an entirely new pixel of pure whiteness, which can double a screen’s brightness or make it twice as efficient, but not both at the same time.

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Sony’s WhiteMagic LCD doubles brightness with pure white pixels