The FCC’s “covered list” of banned foreign technology continues to grow. What began with drones and network routers has now widened to include power inverters and robotic devices, categories broad eno...
I recently came across a benchmark tool designed to measure how many simultaneous live transcodes a server can handle. While this is particularly relevant for those running media applications like Ple...
I have recently observed a shift in how YouTube handles external links within its desktop and mobile interfaces. While browsing my own channel and several others, I found that many links to external w...
It’s been hard finding new affordable laptops so far this year. But there are still a few value packed devices out there, and in my latest video I take a look at the new Dell XPS 13, a laptop position...
Those of us who run our own Plex servers are also likely TV and Movie enthusiasts. That means we often have multiple versions of the same show or film and keep both in our Plex libraries. A few years ...
Our fight to stop the encryption of over-the-air television continues… The latest broadcast industry filings add a more specific concern to an already contentious transition. Broadcasters pushing DRM ...
A few weeks ago, I reviewed the new SuperStation One MiSTer console. The unit shipped with its standout feature—an optical drive dock—that could not boot any games! However, a recent software release ...
The common sentiment among media consumers today is that physical formats are on their way to extinction. This was validated by Sony’s recent announcement that they are phasing out production of physi...
I have been following the legal developments in Texas regarding consumer privacy and the data collection practices of major television manufacturers. Late last year, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton ...
I have spent the last several weeks acquiring another collection of interesting gadgets found on Amazon, ranging from mobile gaming peripherals to off-grid communication tools. My evaluation included ...
The Apple IIgs core is now officially released on the the MiSTer FPGA platform. While I have maintained an original IIgs hardware setup for many years, the development of this cycle-accurate FPGA core...
My latest Mini PC review is of the Beelink EQI304, the first I’ve looked at powered by Intel’s new Wildcat Lake architecture. The new chipset offers some great new IO options including dual Thunderbol...
For the better part of the last four years, I have been tracking the rollout of the ATSC 3.0 broadcast standard. While marketed as the future of television, this transition has become a point of signi...
I have been testing SteamOS on a Minisforum PC equipped with a Ryzen AI 9 370 processor (compensated affiliate link). While much of the attention surrounding this operating system focuses on its conso...
If you own an Android or Google TV device, your remote control likely features several branded buttons dedicated to specific streaming services. Manufacturers monetize this hardware real estate by sel...
Valve’s newest SteamOS release, 3.8, no longer locks the gaming operating system to specific hardware. This means SteamOS can be installed on any PC – provided it’s running with AMD graphics hardware....
It has been four years since I last examined the feasibility of using AMD hardware for video transcoding on a Plex server. At that time, I found that hardware transcoding could be made to work on Wind...
I spent the weekend experimenting with a six-year-old gaming PC to see if a dual-GPU configuration could transform it into a powerful local AI workstation. The objective was to determine if older hard...