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The Roku Streaming Stick Plus has remained one of the best streamers since its 2017 debut, and four years on the company is finally replacing it. On Monday, the streaming giant announced a new player called the Roku Streaming Stick 4K. There’s also a new bundle called, confusingly, the Streaming Stick 4K Plus, which combines the updated stick with …

There’s a new TV tech on the horizon, and it promises incredible picture quality and even more incredible sizes. You can buy one right now if you’ve got deep pockets. It’s called MicroLED, and it combines the best features of the current TV technologies into something new — and huge. Using millions of tiny individually addressable LEDs, MicroLED promises to …

Here’s an inexpensive trick to keep all your gear relevant and useful. It can open up space to plug in your new gaming console, run the same signal to multiple TVs and help minimize the number of times you swap HDMI cables. If that sounds handy, you may need a HDMI switch or HDMI splitter, but which one?  HDMI connections are found on every …

One of the best and yet least-understood HDMI features is ARC, or Audio Return Channel. It’s a feature that enables you to simplify your system and is compatible with most TVs, receivers and soundbars. In its most basic form, ARC uses an HDMI cable to send audio from a TV back to a receiver or soundbar. That means you can …

LG’s futuristic rollable TV has arrived. The LG Signature OLED R TV is now available in the US for $100,000 — costing roughly 50 times more than your average 4K OLED TV.  But this isn’t your average TV. It has a thin, flexible 65-inch OLED screen. The “wow factor” is the TV’s ability to roll down into its housing unit when …

For the biggest screen possible in your home, the best projectors can create truly massive images. In many cases they cost less than the biggest TVs. From movies to TV, PlayStation 5 to Xbox Series X, there’s just something more compelling and engrossing about big-screen entertainment.  The catch is that projectors require more setup and hassle than TVs. You’ll need to …

Samsung is the biggest TV-maker in the world and it had a successful 2020 as people stayed home and invested heavily in home entertainment. Its follow-up for 2021 is a TV lineup heavy with “lifestyle”-centric screens, expensive image quality innovations and, yes, a shelf.  The company’s Unbox and Discover virtual event on Tuesday covered home entertainment products already announced at …

Samsung’s MicroLED televisions like The Wall are some of the biggest TVs around. The biggest was a 292-inch monster composed of individual modules that required custom installation and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. The 2021 version is a MicroLED TV in fixed sizes of 110, 99, 88 and now 76 inches that costs a bit less, but is still …

Roku 4K TVs and streaming players will soon become more useful to people who own Apple devices. Before the end of the year, thousands of media players and smart TVs powered by Roku will receive a free software upgrade that adds support for Apple’s AirPlay 2 and HomeKit. The catch? Only 4K-compatible Roku devices will work with AirPlay, which leaves out the …

Alfred Hitchcock’s classic horror film Psycho is 60 years old — the movie’s general release was Sept. 8, 1960. What better way to celebrate the debut of this controversial film than by watching it, and a handful of other Hitchcock classics, in glorious 4K? Well, good news: There are a few places you can find it for a discount. The best price …