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TiVo Stream 4K review: Amped-up Android TV
TiVo is best known for its popular DVRs, but DVR demand has been drowned by the streaming tsunami. With its $50 Stream 4K, TiVo hopes to ride this new wave.
Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K review
Amazon’s streaming stick game is strong, and the Fire TV Streaming Stick 4K is no exception. A few minor issues aside, this fully loaded streaming device offers virtually everything you could want, including Dolby Vision HDR, Amazon Alexa, basic TV controls, and much more.
Roku Express (2019) review: This $30 streamer is all you need
TVs keep getting better and so do the streaming media players that connect to them. But for those on a budget, the new Roku Express represents the perfect formula: A $30 investment that gives you every streaming service imaginable plus a way to search through all that content quickly and easily.
Roku Ultra (2019) review: Fast, flexible, fun
Roku's update to its top-of-the-line Ultra streaming media player brings with it a host of small but helpful features like customizable remote buttons, faster performance, and new search tools. It's still missing Dolby Vision support, but the $100 Roku Ultra is one of the best media streamers you can buy.
Roku Express review
Roku’s newest iteration of the Express streaming devices boast five times the power of its predecessor. Does that translate to five times the performance?
Roku Streaming Stick+ review
Our Roku Streaming Stick+ review puts the little streamer through its paces and sees it coming out on top of the competition.
Chromecast Audio review
Google jumps into wireless audio with a slick companion to the popular video streamer. But is it any good? Our Google Chromecast audio review has answers.
Google Chromecast Ultra review
The Chromecast Ultra may not look all that much different from its predecessors, but under the hood is the key to unlocking the 4K streaming buffet, including support for High Dynamic Range to unleash the rich contrast and expanded color gamut of today’s most eye-popping video.
Turtle Beach AudioTron Review
What perked our interested in the Audiotron was that not only could it stream MP3's and music from your computer and the internet but was the fact that it was component width which meant that it fit right in with your other home theater components.
Slim Devices Squeezebox Review
With a host of analog and digital outputs, a bright display and connectivity to wired or wireless networks, the Squeezebox is great for anyone who wants to listen to their digital music collection away from their computer.
Roku HD1000 Review
Roku's HD1000 is a networked digital media device that plays high quality audio, video and images through your home stereo and can connect to an HDTV display.
Roku SoundBridge M500 Review
The attractive Roku M500 SoundBridge lets you play your PC or Mac digital music files anywhere in the house, just hook it up to your home theater.
Roku SoundBridge M1000 Review
The attractive Roku M1000 SoundBridge lets you play your PC or Mac digital music files anywhere in the house, just hook it up to your home theater.
Roku SoundBridge M2000 Review
The attractive Roku SoundBridge lets you play your PC or Mac digital music files anywhere in the house, just hook it up to your home theater.
Olive Symphony Review
Those with a taste for high-fidelity will find the Olive Symphony a dream come true. Now you can bridge the gap between your sound system and your PC.
Sling Media Slingbox Review
Stream your favorite TV shows straight from your TV, DVR, or DVD Player directly to your PC with this cool and innovative new product.
Slim Devices Squeezebox V3 Review
Slim Devices latest version of their popular Squeezebox keeps in tradition with the original; it totally kicks butt and is a basic necessity for your home.
Sondigo Sirocco Review
The Sirocco Audio Bridge by Sondigo allows you to stream any audio source from your PC to your stereo system, including DRM protected media, for a mere $140 dollars.
NeoDigits Helios X5000 Review
The NeoDigits X5000 DVD player outsmarts the competition by adding media streaming capabilities through either WiFi or Ethernet.
Logitech Wireless DJ Review
Logitech's new Wireless DJ streams your music library from your PC to your sound system, plus it adds some style as well.
Apple TV (160GB) Review
The Apple TV which we review, is a nice compliment if you have a lot of videos or music in your iTunes library. If you have been iTunes-free, skip the Apple TV.
Netgear EVA8000 Review
The Netgear EVA8000 lets you stream content from your PC directly to your television, all in glorious HD.
Logitech Squeezebox Boom Review
The Logitech Squeezebox Boom is the best internet radio player we have seen to-date and provides easy use and good sound.
Samsung MediaLive Review
The Samsung MediaLive is a MediaCenter extender that suffers from compatibility issues.
Western Digital WD TV HD Media Player Review
The WD TV is easy to use and doesn't ask you to sacrifice a lot of space
SageTV HD Theater Review
Add a few features, put on a couple coats of polish, and SageTV will have a killer product.
Linksys Wireless Home Audio System Review
The Multiroom Home Audio System is expandable, works well, and supports a wide variety of formats.
Linksys Media Hub NMH305 Review
The Media Hub nails dead-simple operation, even if it does seem to come at the cost of performance.
Netgear Digital Entertainer Elite EVA9150 Review
This enthusiast-targeted set-top box has the makings of perfection, but falls apart on execution.
VTech IS9181 Wi-Fi Internet Radio Review
Access to 11,000 stations right out of the box makes this a capable, if somewhat clunky, box.
Philips Streamium NP2500 Review
Philips' budget-level Internet radio impresses with style, but lags behind competitors in many ways.
Sonos Controller 200 (CR200) Review
Sonos' new touch-screen controller outperforms the last model by leaps and bounds.
Logitech Squeezebox Radio Review
Logitech’s stripped down version of the Boom reaches a sweet spot in both features and price.
Bose Wave SoundLink Music System Review
Bose upps the ante with the Wave SoundLink music system which we review. It sounds great, but is it worth $600?
Section Editor, Audio/Video
Phil spent the 2000s making newspapers with the Pensacola (Fla.) News Journal, the 2010s with Android Central and then the personality behind Modern Dad, and is currently an editor with Digital Trends. Phil’s online work has taken him all over the United States, as well as Europe and Asia for conferences such as CES, IFA, Mobile World Congress, and all the various one-offs from companies like Google, Samsung, LG, Facebook and the like.
When he’s not writing, editing, podcasting, interviewing or shooting video, Phil serves as president of the Pensacola Youth Soccer 501(c)(3) nonprofit, has worked on multiple local political campaigns and is a part-time photographer and videographer. He’s also a candidate for Pensacola City Council, District 1.
Phil is a native of Pensacola, where he resides with his wife, daughters and a dog named Max.
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