Author: Press Room

I’m always tweaking my smart TV setup to squeeze a little more out of it. These adjustments often make the whole experience smoother. For instance, I recently made a few changes that noticeably sped up my smart TV. That naturally pushed me to start exploring my Fire TV as well. While digging through the settings, I stumbled upon some lesser-known tricks that most users probably never come across. Now, looking out for useful features has become a habit for me, and it always pays off. This time was no different, either. I found a handful of Fire TV tricks that…

I had an Ethernet cable plugged into my Hisense Canvas TV for months, convinced a wired connection was the smarter setup. Then I actually ran a speed test. The TV was hitting 89Mbps — while my phone, sitting in the same room on Wi-Fi, was pulling nearly 600Mbps. Unplugging that Cat6 Ethernet cable was the fix. If your smart TV has an Ethernet port, there’s a real chance it’s quietly throttling your speeds right now, and the solution takes about three seconds. Most smart TV Ethernet ports have a speed limit you probably don’t know about Why wired doesn’t always…

If you’re into science fiction, March is a big month. There’s a lot of great stuff coming up on TV, including the fifth season of For All Mankind, Apple’s absorbing show about an alternate history of the space race. On the big screen, there’s one huge event everyone is looking forward to: Project Hail Mary, which critics are already calling the first great blockbuster of 2026. Ultimately it’ll be up to the movie-going public to decide if that’s true, but the signs are looking very good. What is Project Hail Mary about? Race to save the sun Project Hail Mary,…

It might seem counterintuitive to buy a smart TV and then not use it for that purpose. You probably did a lot of research on what smart TV to buy. Figuring out which one would look the best in the room based on size, how the visual experience would take over your room, thanks to the build of the TV, and the best ways to boost the sound were all likely considerations you had while buying the TV. Some people look at the smart features of the TV to see what they offer. But surprisingly, that can be the least…

LLMs are advancing at an alarming speed, and depending on your stance, that’s either apocalyptic or fantastic. AI agents are all the hype nowadays, but any agent is ultimately limited by the model powering it. So no matter what setup you’re running, it obviously matters which model you end up using. I’ve heard a lot about Claude, as you probably have too. It always seems like Claude is the go-to LLM for people who actually want to get things done — beyond turning photos into cartoons or venting to a chatbot. But I subscribed to ChatGPT when it launched and…

Between Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, HBO Max, Paramount+, Peacock, and more, streaming your favorite shows and movies can get complicated and expensive. But there’s a whole world of free streaming options out there that don’t require so much as an account. You can go to places like Pluto TV, Tubi, The Roku Channel, and Plex on the web and start watching tons of free movies and TV shows right now for free (with ads), and there are enough options that it makes you wonder why you were ever paying for streaming in the first place. Here are some of the biggest…

Early in March, Netflix stopped working on a great number of older smart TVs and streaming devices around the world. This was not a bug; Netflix updates itself regularly, and some older devices are no longer compatible with it. That sucks for people who had relied on these methods to watch what is still the streaming service that gives you the most bang for your buck, but happily, there are ways around it, if you haven’t already found that out for yourself. What devices no longer support Netflix And why were they discontinued? One of the most notable devices that…

Add another reason to the growing pile of reasons why it might be a good idea to shill out $13.99/month to pay for YouTube Premium: if you use the free version of YouTube and have to watch ads before and during some videos, you may have been bedeviled by an annoying bug over the past few months. If you open the official YouTube app on either your Apple or Android mobile device and blow up a video so it takes up your entire screen, you may see persistent ads in the lower corner that don’t go away no matter how…

VLC is undoubtedly one of the best apps ever built, not just in the media player category. Almost everyone who has used a computer has probably used VLC at some point. But if I had one complaint about VLC, it would be the interface. It feels basic and hasn’t changed in years. This is what made me look for alternatives, and that search eventually led me to Screenbox. It’s a free and open-source app that packs the power of VLC in a modern interface. This means you still get the legendary file compatibility VLC is known for, but wrapped in…

There’s buzz around “Cancel ChatGPT” — a movement aimed at convincing people to cancel their OpenAI subscriptions, or to stop using ChatGPT altogether. The effort, documented by users on the r/ChatGPT Reddit, comes as OpenAI formed a deal with the U.S. Department of Defense (unofficially called the Department of War) to deploy AI models in classified government networks. The controversy isn’t about the deal itself, but how it came to be. Anthropic previously contracted with the Department of Defense, but the U.S. government took exception to the company’s safeguards against the use of AI for mass domestic surveillance or fully…