Reader Harry writes: Can I burn the audio from a YouTube video to a CD? Or get it to my Windows Media Player? If anyone knows how it would be you! That's quite a challenge, Harry, but hardly an impossible one. Here's how you can do it. ... Read More

Already one of the best buys in home video, the bargain-priced Roku player — which already delivers streaming Netflix, Major League Baseball, and on-demand Amazon videos — now offers content "channels" from the likes of Pandora, Flickr, and Facebook. Read More

Earlier this year Warner Bros. did something smart and let consumers trade in their old HD DVD discs for Blu-ray versions of the same movie. For $4. ... Read More

Thinking about snapping up a Blu-ray player for the holdays? Wondering which of your favorite movie franchises — think "Star Wars," "Indiana Jones," "Lord of the Rings," and "The Matrix" — have gone Blu, and which haven't? Help is here. Read More

So, say you take a copyrighted recording — "Abbey Road" by the Beatles, for instance — run it through your own filtering software that tweaks the audio in some new-fangled, impossible-to-understand way, and create what you call a "new and original" record Read More

Blu-ray player prices appear poised to drop well below the $99 mark come Black Friday. Examples: A Sylvania Blu-ray deck that'll go for just $89 in the Great Lakes region, and a Magnavox deck at Walmart for just $78. Read More

Put your speakers next to the stereo and point them to where you sit. That's what it takes to get good audio, right? Dr. Sean Olive is the director of acoustic research for Harman International, which makes all manner of speaker products. ... Read More

Wish there was an easier way to watch streaming video from Boxee on your TV? Well, looks like the makers of the popular media-streaming software and Apple TV plug-in have decided to go ahead and make their own set-top box, although early word is that it m Read More

At last, you can snap up official digital copies of the remastered Beatles catalog ... but only on a USB stick that sits in a big, green apple. Also: A Web site selling unauthorized digital downloads of the Beatles gets slapped with a lawsuit. Read More

Many of us have been bemoaning the state of uneven TV volume for years -- loud commercials that give way to barely-audible dialogue followed by deafening, room-shaking explosions -- and at least one company has Read More