HBO rival Starz has launched its streaming app on the Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV stick, but if you’re a Comcast subscriber, you’re still out of luck. Amazon users can sign up for a $8.99 Starz subscription directly from Starz.com or through the Amazon Appstore. The Starz app consolidates the existing Starz Play, Encore …

The always-on, always-listening “smart speakers” made by Amazon and Google, the Echo and Google Home, sound great when asked to read news headlines or the weather. But if you care about audio quality when playing back music, both kind of suck. Solutions exist today for music-centric Alexa and Google Home users who want better sound. You can hook an Echo …

Though there are dozens of gadget shows around the world each year, there are probably only three that are worth following for audio-visual tech: IFA, CEDIA and CES. CES is the biggest. At the close of the last day of 2017, we look back on the last week and pick out some of our personal highlights: From Atmos sound bars …

After a few years without new hardware, the maker of the Tablo streaming DVR, Nuvyyo, is back with some new products for 2017 — a “smart” antenna dongle with cloud storage, and a USB DVR for Android TV devices. Tablo Droid While Tablo has traditionally made networked DVRs, the new Tablo Droid software will let you connect a USB antenna …

Kickstarter: It could be tech speak for “fixing problems that Apple creates.” The Cupertino company’s decision to abandon most ports on the new MacBook Pro in favor of USB-C left many people scratching their heads — especially fans of the MagSafe connector. Apple’s super-logical MagSafe power connectors were the ones pop on and off with magnetic ease, saving anyone prone …

After nine years, art-house movie-streaming service Mubi launches on Roku today, and to celebrate it’s bringing a stellar movie lineup with it. This month, Mubi is bringing two Jackie Chan films, the classic “Project A” and its sequel, plus one of the creepiest killers of modern celluloid, “No Country for Old Men”‘s Anton Chigurh. Mubi launched on PlayStation 3 and …

You may not necessarily know the name, but the speakers that Andrew Jones designs speak for themselves. His speakers are champions of the “budget hi-fi” ethic. And this Cyber Monday three of his best products are on sale. The first is the Elac Uni-Fi UB5. It’s one of our favorite speakers right now and today it’s selling for $100 off. …

Samsung is still No. 1 in smartphones, but Chinese manufacturers are gaining ground. The Korean electronics giant saw phone sales in the third quarter decline by 14 percent year over year, its worst performance ever, according to researched published Thursday by Gartner. The slump is due in part to battery problems that caused some of Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 phones …

AOL is expected to announce Thursday that it will lay off 500 people, or 5 percent of its staff, as it shifts focus. “The layoffs are related to a 2017 strategy where we will add to our business,” AOL CEO Tim Armstrong said in an interview with Recode. “These are super targeted by area and we will be re-growing especially …

Don’t expect Samsung to rock the boat at Harman. When the Korean giant announced its planned $8 billion acquisition of Harman earlier this week, it was said to be all about the audio conglomerate’s automotive technology. “Approximately 65 percent of Harman’s $7.0 billion of reported sales during the 12 months ended September 30, 2016 are automotive-related,” crowed the press release …