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AMC ending up in the cheap tiers is the part worth reading twice. The headline is that AMC, IFC, Sundance Now, WE tv and BBC America are now in every entertainment plan, with BBC World News going into all the news plans. The detail underneath is that the AMC Networks group had been sitting...

Every time I have tried to win this argument with someone I reached for the wrong scene. Explosions, bright daylight, a big colourful set piece. Streaming handles all of that fine, because a codec has plenty to work with when the frame is loud and busy and the highlights are hiding everything...

The cabinet is the product here, and I don't mean that as an insult. Ross Lovegrove did the Muon, KEF handed him these, and the shape is what you are actually paying the premium for. Everything else is a careful iteration on a speaker they already sell. Under the sculpting it is the 12th...

Four live games on one screen sounds brilliant right up to the point where you divide a 55 inch panel by four. Each quarter is a window about 27 inches on the diagonal, and that is before you account for broadcast graphics that were laid out to be legible at full size. Anyone who has messed...

Saw someone laying out a full remodel, 77 inch C5, Onkyo N6100, Klipsch 800s up front, 500SAIIs doing Atmos and rears, RP-504CII centre, R-121SW underneath, and then agonising over which streaming box to put in front of it. If you have already spent that, the box is the cheapest decision on the...

Went to replace a dying Fire TV Stick 4K Max last week and did a double take at checkout. It was $59.99 the last time I bought one. It is $84.99 now. That is not a rounding adjustment, that is a different product category. The plain Fire TV Stick HD only moved from $34.99 to $39.99, so if all...

The reason these clips look better than anyone remembers has surprisingly little to do with the tape itself. That footage was always this good. What changed is everything that used to sit between the tape and your eyes. A 70s music show went out through a broadcast chain that composite-encoded...

Your gear list answers half of this already. A 77-inch C5, an Onkyo doing the decoding, Klipsch 800s up front with the 500SAIIs pulling double duty for heights and rears, and a 12-inch sub. That is a system that will show you the difference between a good handoff and a bad one, so the question...

Sky switched on a feature called Your Multiview over Premier League opening weekend, and it does what the name says: up to four live sports feeds on screen at the same time, across Sky Q, Sky Glass and Sky Stream. You can change the layout, pick which of the four you actually hear, and throw any...

If you are still on the old Disney bundle, the one with ad-free Disney+, Hulu with ads and ESPN Select with ads, it goes to $27.99 on or after September 17. It was $24.99. Three dollars is not the story here. The story is that the plan is closed. You cannot sign up for it, you cannot switch...

Returning customers pay more than new ones. That's the line in this year's NFL streaming maths I keep coming back to, because the estimate to watch every game is $737.83 for a new YouTube TV plus Sunday Ticket customer and $920.83 for someone who has been paying them for years. Loyalty is a...

Someone raised this after watching Venom The Last Dance: dialogue perfectly clear, but the music and background sat so far back it didn't feel like part of the film. I've had the same impression on Netflix a few times and I don't think the catalogue is quietly getting worse. Two things stack...

If you have ever paid over the odds for an out of print Warner Archive disc, there is a thread worth bookmarking. Someone over at Home Theater Forum keeps a running list of catalogue titles where the HD digital appears to come from the same scan Warner Archive used for the Blu-ray, and nothing...

The disc versus stream argument gets made badly nearly every time, and the reason is that people argue about the delivery format when the thing doing most of the work is upstream of it. Yes, a 4K disc carries far more data than any stream you can buy, and yes, that shows up first in the places...

Check your renewal date if you are on a Peacock annual plan, because the new pricing took effect on 18 August and existing subscribers get moved across on the first billing date on or after 17 September. Every tier moved. Select goes to 8.99 a month from 7.99, Premium to 12.99 from 10.99...

BabyTV stopped broadcasting in Canada on 7 August, providers across cable, satellite and streaming all cut it at midnight, and the standalone streaming service that carried the live channel is closing at the end of this month. The website has already gone, redirecting to a generic Disney TV...

A reference to ATVRemote1,5 turned up in the macOS 26.7 release candidate, spotted by MacRumors, and it lines up with what Gurman had already described as part of Apple's 2026 roadmap. That's the whole factual content, to be clear - an identifier in shipping code. No description of what changes...

Worth checking which tier you actually landed on before getting excited. Alexa+ is rolling out to Fire TV in the US at no extra cost, covering current-generation Sticks, the Cube, Amazon's Ember sets and supported Hisense and Panasonic TVs. No app to install, no subscription, and no Prime...

Freeplay has been the live channel grid built into Google TV for a while now, and Google has just bolted video on demand onto it for the first time. More than 10,000 movies and shows you can start whenever you want, ad supported, no separate app to install and no subscription. Studios named...

Tubi has launched Terror on Tubi, a permanent hub for horror rather than the usual October pop-up. Their numbers: over 13,000 hours of horror in the catalogue and more than 53 million hours of horror streamed on the platform every month. They're also feeding it originals this autumn, including...