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The Google Play Store on your Android TV offers hundreds of apps for all kinds of uses. And most of the time, those apps are enough. But that’s not the end of the story. Android TV is all about flexibility, which means you can also go beyond what’s available on the Play Store and install apps that aren’t listed. This is referred to as sideloading. It might sound technical, but it’s actually quite easy to do. It’s a simple trick that can dramatically expand what you can do on your Android TV. Sideloading apps on Android TV changes the game…

I have long been a believer in Plex as the best way to view and access your media library remotely. It provides a clean, organized interface that turns my scattered files into my own personal Netflix, and that is exactly how I have been using it for years—until recently. I noticed a feature right there in the menu that I had somehow overlooked—a fully built-in, free streaming library. This discovery initially excited me, as it offered a range of channels across various genres. However, would it be enough to replace other top free streaming channels as a standalone, one-stop solution?…

The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien are some of the most beloved books of the past century, and basically responsible for launching the high fantasy genre as we still know it. Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy is celebrated to this day, but every attempt to bring Tolkien’s world to the screen since then has stumbled. The Hobbit movie trilogy, while profitable, stretched out a short, charming book far too thin, and 2024’s animated feature The War of the Rohirrim made so few waves this may be the first you’re hearing about…

Like many, I’ve been using ChatGPT as my AI of choice for quite a while (even though some are turning away recently. But the truth is that for most things, Claude is better (like for doing real work) and in some cases save you a ton of time by helping you with work. It’s more perceptive (and can brilliantly ask you clarifying questions in order to form a deep understanding), it has vastly better coding skills than ChatGPT, and it has more capability to do work on your behalf through agentic tools like Cowork which can literally use your computer…

I’ve recently been toying with the idea of repurposing my bookshelf active monitor speakers for home cinema use, in the hope that they will deliver better results than my soundbar. This got me wondering what I could do with the soon-to-be-unemployed soundbar; after all, it’s simply a speaker with a broad soundstage and multiple connectivity options. I quickly realized that my soundbar was much more flexible than I had thought, and I could adapt it for many uses beyond a mere TV speaker. An old or unused soundbar lying around can be used to great effect to improve a workspace,…

Do you ever get the feeling that your headphones aren’t quite right? That they could sound better? It’s a fairly common feeling, and as someone who tests and reviews headphones, it happens to me all the time. Some headphone manufacturers offer an app you can use to tweak your EQ settings, which is handy, but what if you don’t really know where to start? That’s where you need an EQ app like Wavelet. It’s a free Android app that sets the best possible EQ configuration for your headphones or earbuds, working towards the Harman curve as much as possible. On…

Radioactive Emergency is a new Netflix drama about a real incident that happened in the Brazilian city of Goiânia in 1987, when radioactive material from an abandoned radiotherapy device spread throughout the local community. By the end, four people would be dead, homes would be lost, and over 100,000 people would be checked for signs of radiation contamination. Radioactive Emergency joins the ranks of gripping TV shows based on true stories, although if anything, the true story of the Goiânia accident is even wilder than what is depicted in the Netflix series. The true story behind Radioactive Emergency Historically accurate…

Studios and streamers are prepping a lot of new quality sci-fi and fantasy content for April, and we’re here to get you ready. From animated spinoffs to sci-fi comedies to the final season of one of the best superhero shows of the past decade, there’s a ton worth watching right around the corner. Here are all the new fantasy and sci-fi shows to look out for this month. Related If you want a great binge, start with these finished Netflix shows These 10 Netflix TV shows will delight you from start to finish. Star Wars: Maul — Shadow Lord Get…

Music listening can be as simple as you make it, or it can become a very expensive and complicated hobby quickly. There is a seemingly never-ending list of features, upgrades, and settings you can use to improve or change the way your music sounds. Not all of them are worth using, however — some are complete gimmicks, while others require the right hardware to maximize. Sound quality is subjective, so you might love a feature or setting the person beside you hates. There’s no better example of that principle than spatial audio. It’s one of the biggest buzzwords in the…

With modern TVs, it can be all too easy to lose yourself in a sea of distracting settings menus. Dynamic contrast levels, expression enhancers, tone mapping, true motion, MPEG noise reduction; we’ve come a long way from the days when all you really had to worry about on a CRT set was adjusting brightness levels. While many of these settings will only subtly tweak how your favorite movies or shows look, one option many of you should definitely have enabled is game mode. If your TV offers such a preset and you regularly play PS5, PC, or Nintendo Switch 2…