Articles by Carrie Marshall

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Writer, broadcaster, musician and kitchen gadget obsessive Carrie Marshall has been writing about tech since 1998, contributing sage advice and odd opinions to all kinds of magazines and websites as well as writing more than twenty books. Her latest, a love letter to music titled Small Town Joy, is on sale now. She is the singer in spectacularly obscure Glaswegian rock band Unquiet Mind.

Articles by: Carrie Marshall

I tried the lossless audio test and couldn't believe my ears. Can you really tell the difference between lossless audio and plain old MP3 versions of your favorite tunes?

By Carrie Marshall published 8 May 26

At higher bitrates it's hard to tell the difference between lossy and lossless

TCL QM7K Google TV home screen with hand holding remote in front

Google TV is getting the exact home screen update you don’t want: more clutter — vertical social videos from YouTube will be piped right to your eyes along with the TV and movie recommendations

By Carrie Marshall published 8 May 26

Because there's nothing better than Tik-Tok-style vertical video on a widescreen landscape TV…

A new report says inkjet-printed OLED could be 30% cheaper to produce than current methods, which I'm hoping is great news for laptops and monitors soon, and OLED TVs in the future — and it's on top of the other big advantages of IJP tech

By Carrie Marshall published 7 May 26

Inkjet-printed OLED panels could reduce manufacturing costs by as much as 35%, according to a new report. But there are still challenges to overcome

Older Amazon Fire TV devices are set to lose support for HBO Max, due to a lack of software updates as Amazon switches to its new 'Vega' operating system, and it could affect 'millions' — I hope you already caught up with The Pitt…

By Carrie Marshall published 6 May 26

HBO Max is no longer supported on older Fire TV devices that run version 5 of the Fire OS

Looks like Valve's Steam Machine might finally be on its way after a huge importing effort — and despite our fears, it might actually support full-fat 4K 120Hz and VRR in the end, making it a full PS5 and Xbox replacement

By Carrie Marshall published 5 May 26

Valve's Steam Machine may be close to launch – and a post-launch firmware update may deliver HDMI 2.1

Bose Lifestyle Ultra soundbar in white below a TV with purple ambient lighting

Bose releases new 'Ultra' Dolby Atmos soundbar and wireless speaker range, with a serious subwoofer option — and this lineup has Sonos right in its crosshairs

By Carrie Marshall published 5 May 26

Bose's Lifestyle Collection features a new flagship soundbar and multi-room compatibility — including with other firms' speakers

An old CRT TV with Amazon's Fire TV interface on it

Someone found a Chinese retailer selling super-cheap CRT TVs, but don't get too excited, retro gaming fans — every new piece of information about them seems to reveal more mysteries

By Carrie Marshall published 1 May 26

A Chinese company is offering newly made CRT TVs — but with some debate over exactly what's being sold

Image of a woman looking at records in a record store

Be careful buying hard-to-get vinyl: UK police just seized thousands of 'counterfeit' records, which were being sold for as much as £1,000 each — and there are more 'secret underground record factories' where that came from

By Carrie Marshall published 30 April 26

Fake vinyl is big business: the latest UK raid seized over £250,000 of counterfeit records. Be careful out there!

A large black speaker with a big driver and two bass ports. It's not very aesthetically pleasing, implying it's meant to be hidden

Does a home theater speaker need to be beautiful? Scottish hi-fi great Fyne Audio is banking on 'reference-level' sound with a high SPL being enough for its new line-up — they more for hiding in the wall than displaying proudly, and that's okay

By Carrie Marshall published 29 April 26

Fyne Audio's new monitors and sub deliver very high SPL in a design made to "visually disappear"

A diagram showing how a Samsung display can switch from 2D to 3D display mode

The rise of glasses-free 3D light-field displays: Samsung has created a 2D/3D switchable screen using a 'metasurface lenticular lens' with 'nanoscale structures' for no-compromise viewing — and it follows impressive demos from TCL and others

By Carrie Marshall published 28 April 26

Samsung has developed an electronically switchable display that can deliver glasses-free 3D

Samsung S95F (left) and Sony Bravia 8 II (right) displaying an orange butterfly on screen

QD-OLED's long-rumored 83-inch TV size and 24-inch monitor size look like they're coming at last: Samsung Display registered them with display certification program UL Solutions to prove how good the panels are — now we just need them to launch

By Carrie Marshall published 27 April 26

Samsung Display appears to have included an unannounced 83-inch model in the QuantumView certification of its QD-OLED TVs

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By Pawan Singh last updated 24 April 26

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JMGO N3 Ultimate projector on a coffee table in a neutrally decorated living room

A new 4K projector with the ‘world’s first 3-in-1 optical system’ is now available — and it can remember your walls

By Carrie Marshall published 23 April 26

The new N3 Ultimate projector from JMGO combines lens shift, gimbal and optical zoom in a single system

A promotional photo of the Deus Invicta 60 subwoofer on a dried lake bed underneath a late evening sky

That's not a sub, THIS is a sub — Deus Audio's 60-inch infrasonic bass driver is nearly 6 feet tall, can hit 8Hz, and handles 20,000W of power. This would be the ultimate home theater upgrade…

By Carrie Marshall published 22 April 26

The Invicta 60 is a ludicrously powerful infrasonic subwoofer delvering 20,000W of peak power

Dolby Atmos is coming to free-to-air TV more broadly at last — no internet, no fee, and no next-gen tuner, but still immersive audio

By Carrie Marshall published 21 April 26

There's life in free broadcast TV yet, and you won't need ATSC 3.0 to get it

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Roku Plus Series TV main smart interface

Roku just added 6 more free streaming channels — and one of its most useful features is coming to more streaming services

By Carrie Marshall published 8 April 26

New channels are rollin', rollin', rollin'… OUT NOW… to your Roku sticks and Roku TVs

Philips Hue Omniglow lightstrip behind guitars

Light up your life with the Philips Hue Omniglow, the best Hue lightstrip yet

By Carrie Marshall published 5 April 26

Light up your life with the Philips Hue Omniglow, the best Hue lightstrip yet, which appears simply seamless.

Photos of the Audio-Technica ATH-ADX7000 headphones on a wooden table

'An exceptional audio investment': Audio-Technica's new open-backs just jumped straight to the top of my headphone pile (and it's not even close)

By Carrie Marshall published 3 April 26

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Audio-Technica's flagship open-back headphones are deliciously detailed and pack a serious low-end punch, but they're very expensive

An image from The Grand Budapest Hotel, showing a character on snowy ground. The new Netflix interface is superimposed over the image

'Time to unsubscribe' — Netflix made a big change to its Apple TV app, removing a ton of useful functions

By Carrie Marshall published 2 April 26

Some Apple TV owners are unhappy with Netflix's updated app, which drops the tvOS player and some of its features

A silhouetted figure from an iPod ad next to a grey iPod resting on a window sill

How Apple accidentally destroyed the record business — and why I wish we'd stuck with iPods

By Carrie Marshall published 1 April 26

Three Apple products changed the way we listen to music — and caused some unintended consequences too.

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Promotional image of the Sony Bravia Theater Bar 7 underneath a TV in a neutrally decorated room

Sony's new Dolby Atmos soundbar does all the things the Sonos Arc Ultra doesn't, for a lower price — and it's expandable for home theater like Sonos, too

By Carrie Marshall published 26 March 26

Sony unveils the Bravia Theater Bar 5 and Bravia Theater Bar 7

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Balmuda The Clock product photo showing The Clock on a wooden sideboard or table

Look ma, no hands! Design firm invents a hands-free, hard-to-read, costly smart clock — but it plays sounds, too, at least!

By Carrie Marshall last updated 22 March 26

The Clock is a bedside clock that uses light instead of an analog mechanism to tell the time

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TCL Max163M promotional image showing the TV taking up an entire wall

Is this the game-changer? TCL's new micro-LED TV massively cuts the price of the 'OLED-killer' tech — and it launched a new 300Hz 'Super Quantum Dot' TV too

By Carrie Marshall published 19 March 26

TCL's new 163-inch micro-LEDs are selling in China for less than half the price you'd expect

Elipson Prestige Facet II 6 Active BT speakers on top of a wooden sideboard

These small and stylish wireless stereo speakers pack in Hi-Res connectivity, turntable phono support, HDMI, aptX and more — and all at a seriously tempting price

By Carrie Marshall published 18 March 26

Elipson's new active speakers have extensive wired and wireless connectivity including an MM phono stage and aptX HD

The Philips B8301 soundbar and subwoofer on a white surface with a blue background

Philips’ new cheap Dolby Atmos soundbar with 4K 120Hz HDMI passthrough could be the perfect upgrade for older gaming TVs

By Carrie Marshall published 17 March 26

Philips has unveiled three new mid-range soundbars, one of which features 4K 120Hz passthrough that'll be useful for gamers

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