Audio & Sound

It is now common for television sets to come with a USB port(s). This port can be used for many things such as, connecting peripheral devices or connecting a USB drive. For the sake of USB drives, however, you must have it in a particular... Read More

What do you do when the music or podcast you are listening to is so nice? You share, right? Content on Apple Music can be organized in playlists and shared. You could arrange, for example, your best Afro House songs into one playlist and then... Read More

Surround sound has brought in a lot of realism and audio detail in the home cinema experience. Today we focus on the two most used surround audio formats: DTS and Dolby Digital. Both audio technologies enable movie producers to reproduce multi-channel surround audio in our... Read More

MTN and TIDAL partnered to bring affordable music streaming to MTN customers in Uganda. They built quite a unique proposition that enables customers pay with Mobile Money inclusive of flexible subscription of between 1 day to 30 days. A customer can even choose a subscription... Read More

With plenty of music streaming apps offering the functionality of downloading songs for offline playback, music player apps are almost being rendered useless. Choosing the right player depends on your requirements like Chromecast support, synchronization of lyrics, customization facility, and lock screen widget. Here, we suggest... Read More

Radio isn’t as popular as it used to be. However, it’s still a great way to discover new music, listen to the news, talk shows, and all other entertaining stuff. I personally listen to the radio every morning to catch up on what's on the... Read More

While we have previously written pieces on how best to understand what HDMI is from a beginner's perspective, some major advantages HDMI holds over other video display connectivity technology, the different usage applications your TV's HDMI ports, how to buy the best HDMI cables, identifying... Read More

On the foreign scene, the paradigm shift from traditional methods of listening to music (physical CDs, downloading MP3s etc.) to the modern-day method of streaming using many of the best free and paid music streaming apps and services is fully fledged. In Africa, however, music... Read More

HEVC or H.265 as you may have it, is a video compression algorithm that succeeds the AVC or H.264 codecs. High Efficiency Video Coding is the simply a better way of compressing videos into smaller bitrate while still preserving the quality.  This makes it possible... Read More