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

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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

Walmart's cheap new Google TV streaming stick has appeared — get 4K and Dolby Atmos for a very low price

By Carrie Marshall published 7 April 26

Walmart's latest streamer isn't official but it's already in some stores and the full specs are now here

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

Roku made it so that you need internet to watch antenna-based channels on its TVs — but don't worry, it promises to fix it

By Carrie Marshall published 1 April 26

And here I thought that half the point of over-the-air channels these days is so you don't need the internet…

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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TCL QM7K showing image of vegetables on screen

We reviewed all the best budget TVs — this 'fantastic TV for the price' is the one you should buy today for big-screen thrills

By Carrie Marshall published 30 March 26

Save over $1,000 on the launch price of the terrific TCL QM7K mini-LED

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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Samsung reveals its cheaper mini-LED TVs for 2026 — and it’s dropping QLED on some of them, I kid you not

By Carrie Marshall published 24 March 26

New Neo QLED TVs, and two more affordable mini-LED models with no quantum dots mentioned

Toshiba Z670R product render with bright colors on and behind the TV

There's a new affordable 100-inch mini-LED TV in town — but would you go for this Toshiba when you can get Hisense and TCL's best TVs for way cheaper?

By Carrie Marshall published 23 March 26

Toshiba's new mini-LEDs have a decent specification but the largest size is considerably more expensive than the equivalent Hisense or TCL

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

Samsung QD-OLED display tech panel diagram

Samsung has reportedly restarted work on OLED-busting 'QNED' TV tech — no, not the kind that LG sells, a whole other type of QNED

By Carrie Marshall published 16 March 26

Samsung has reportedly restarted development of 'True QNED' displays, because we don't have enough acronyms for all the TV developments happening

'We were forced to make changes': Disney+ just added Dolby Vision HDR back again — and confirms the reason it was pulled in the first place

By Carrie Marshall published 13 March 26

Disney+ has brought back Dolby Vision support for European viewers in the aftermath of a patent dispute

TCL now can't call some of its TVs 'QLED' after losing in court to Samsung — and there are more legal cases coming

By Carrie Marshall published 13 March 26

A German court has ordered TCL to cease advertising and selling QLED TVs in the country, and US cases are looming too

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FiiO TT13 turntable shot from above with illumination set to red

'Looks far more expensive than it is' — FiiO's an automatic turntable has several bright ideas to light up your vinyl-loving life

By Carrie Marshall published 12 March 26

FiiO's tasty turntable will illuminate your living room and beam to your Bluetooth speakers and headphones

Burson Audio Conductor Stellar on a white tabletop in a neutrally decorated daylit room. It's sat next to a pair of headphones, a teacup and an open magazine

Burson's Stellar headphone amps promise head-fi heaven in spacecraft-inspired Star Wars style

By Carrie Marshall published 11 March 26

Burson's new Stellar Series promises high-end headphone amplification in a more compact and accessible form

Hisense's 2026 mid-range mini-LED TV comes in sizes up to 116 inches, because why not — and you can choose to have Google TV or not

By Carrie Marshall published 10 March 26

Hisense says people want ever-bigger TVs, so it's making big mini-LEDs for 2026

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HBO Max is launching a global password-sharing crackdown, just in time to annoy everyone before it gets potentially 'shut down' anyway

By Carrie Marshall published 9 March 26

HBO Max says its crackdown on account sharing will go global in 2026 — but analysts say the streamer's future is uncertain with the Paramount merger

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The new LG C6 and G6 OLED TVs get prices, and it's good news — even the new brighter C6 models aren't more expensive

By Carrie Marshall published 5 March 26

LG's pricing for the new LG C6 and G6 OLED TVs brings good news: the prices are the same or better than last year

‘They’re just cheap laptops’: Steve Jobs once derided netbooks, and now Apple’s made one in the MacBook Neo — and that’s a great thing

By Carrie Marshall published 4 March 26

Opinion Apple's new cheap laptop is a big upgrade to a throwback idea

Lifestyle shot of the Xgimi Z6X 5th Generation projector unfolded on a light marble table. A woman's hand is coming from the top of the image to lift the projector up

Our favorite budget projector maker has a smart new portable model that folds away into a simple 'ornament' when not in use

By Carrie Marshall published 2 March 26

Xgimi's new portable projector hides itself away to take up less shelf or bag space

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