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I bought an LG OLED (with its webOS) specifically because of how HDR was supposed to look — deep blacks, bright highlights that actually punch, color that doesn’t flatten out in dark scenes. Then I sat down to watch something in actual HDR, and it looked worse than the SDR stuff I’d been watching for years. Skin tones leaned orange. Bright scenes had this waxy glow around anything white. A campfire scene in a nature documentary looked like someone had dragged the saturation slider to the right and forgotten about it. My first instinct was that HDR was overrated, or…
Nothing is more humbling for a frequent traveller than landing after a long-haul flight and realising that your body missed the time-change memo. There you are, feeling like a phone on one per cent, while everyone around you goes about their day functioning perfectly normally. That is jet lag. Your internal clock is stuck on the time of your departure city, while the sun has got its hat on and you’re definitely not singing hip hip hooray. Wide awake at 3am, gagging for a nap at 3pm, and about as sharp as the knife from the flight that got you…
The AI world is moving so quickly that it’s becoming difficult to keep up with the latest trends. From some of the early 21st century machine learning efforts, to the today’s generative AI landscape where multi-model content can be generated from scratch, the progress feels exponential. Indeed, we’re now entering the Agentic AI era where AI ‘agents’ can act on your behalf with little to no active input required from the user. Are we at risk of being overtaken by the machines? Right now human beings still have the edge. Although we can’t process data or generate content at the…
The 2025 Roku Streaming Stick Plus gives you an HDMI plug on one end and a USB-C port on the side. That is the whole list. Streaming sticks skip the Ethernet jack to stay small and cheap, and most buyers never miss it, though the omission stings if you spent a weekend pulling Cat6A through your own walls. Roku does support wired networking on its 2025 sticks, using that same USB-C port and an adapter that runs about $15. Nothing on the box mentions it. My office is the room where I stopped treating that as a curiosity, because wiring…
HDMI 2.1 brought a ton of improvements and additions, most importantly support for VRR (Variable Refresh Rate). Unfortunately for us mere mortals, HDMI 2.1 is gated behind modern tech. Its licensing is also a headache to deal with, and is reduced to a gimped version on Linux. It’s also a pain to get certified hardware for, and the HDMI Forum has always been notoriously restrictive about what it can and cannot support. And so we return to the age-old DisplayPort, an existing standard that has incorporated an alternative to VRR for years, is an open standard, and is compatible with…
Apple’s CarPlay Ultra infotainment system is finally starting to make it into luxury vehicles, giving everyone else a glimpse at the technology that is likely to succeed CarPlay as time goes on. The future of in-car connectivity is finally making its way into vehicles in the US, UK and Canada with a host of other manufacturers committed to adopting the tech, which unites all of the car’s systems under one neat and tidy Apple aesthetic that spans all of the vehicles screens. Let’s take a deeper look at the upgrades… What is CarPlay? Traditional CarPlay is an iPhone-based experience that…
I was one of the first in the queue for the original Apple Watch. I bought the smaller 38mm aluminium model with a lime green sport strap, and I wore it every single day. I loved it. I still do, in a way, the design is iconic, and I still own it. It just sits in the box now, taking up space, permanently switched off and compatible with precisely… zilch. That smartwatch was actually my gateway into wristwatches. Before it, I hadn’t worn anything on my wrist in years, but once I got used to having something there, I started…
Prime Video is the second-biggest streaming service on the planet, second only to Netflix. Since it started making original content in 2013, it’s amassed a deep library of quality content. Some, like The Boys, became big hits. But there are a lot of other underrated or largely forgotten series that are just sitting there, waiting for you to discover and binge them to completion. Related Don’t Skip These Hidden Gems on Amazon Prime Video This Weekend [August 22-24] The weekend is almost here, and these shows and movies deserve a spot on your watchlist. Goliath Before he was Landman Credit: Prime…
Got Sky Q, Sky Glass or Sky Stream 4K TV? Ultra HD comes as standard with your Sky Multiscreen Sky Q subscription, and costs just £5-a-month extra with Sky Glass or Sky Stream, and while it doesn’t extend to everything available, the catalogue is steadily growing all the time. Here’s Stuff’s pick of the best that Sky 4K has to offer… One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson’s Oscar-winning tenth film pretty much does exactly what it says on the tin. Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Pat Calhoun, a member of a militant political group that liberates an immigrant internment camp…
Summary Oasis update adds stricter DRM; Calibre/DeDRM can no longer remove encryption from downloaded KFX. This locks your purchases behind DRM—local backups and offline ownership are now at risk. Switch to DRM-free stores and e-readers (Smashwords, Baen, Kobo, Boox) for true ownership and backups. The Kindle Oasis 3 just got its first update in over a year, bumping it to version 5.18.2.1.1. This update quietly adds tougher DRM, like what’s already on newer Kindles. You probably won’t notice anything different when reading or downloading books, but according to a user on Mobile Read, this update means DRM-removal tools will no…