Carrie Marshall

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

On the left: A simple graphic of a broadcast tower emitting a signal across a cityscape. Then a white line dividing that image from another. Then an image of a Dolby Atmos logo on a soundbar

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

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

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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

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

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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)

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Editor's Choice

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

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

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

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!

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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

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

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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

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

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

Disney Plus logo with popcorn

'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

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

TCL 2023 TVs in dark room

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

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

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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

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

The new white HBO Max logo on a black background on a mobile phone

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

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

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

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

Panasonic JZ2000 OLED TV in reviewer's living room

The 'dream OLED' TV tech upgrade may finally be on the way — CEO says it will improve 'efficiency, lifespan and color purity', and it's readying production

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South Korean OLED manufacturer Lordin says it's secured manufacturing capacity for its blue PhOLED display technology

LG B5 OLED TV with colorimeter, laptop, test pattern generator and Portrait Display Calman software all connected and on display

LG's OLED TVs get certified as the contrast king even over RGB TV tech in tests, though we have some questions — including why LG says this makes them 'the optimal choice in the AI era'

By Carrie Marshall published

LG Display has been awarded '100% dimming consistency' by a third-party assessor to show that OLEDs are more consistent than LCD

The Hisense 163-inch micro-LED TV at CES 2025

Don’t expect next-gen micro-LED TVs to get cheaper yet — a new report breaks down the cost to make one, and the 'essential' tech changes that need to happen

By Carrie Marshall published

UBI Research has published a breakdown estimate of how much a big micro-LED TV costs to make, and it tells you why it's not going mainstream

A photo of the Fire TV mobile app showing information and options for the Fallout TV show. A living room and tv is blurred in the background of the photo

Your phone is now the best remote for your Amazon Fire TV thanks to the new free 'second screen' app upgrade

By Carrie Marshall published

Amazon has updated its Fire TV app to make it a 'second screen' for your Fire TV

A photo of the front of the FiiO KA15 portable DAC showing its fun cassette-like interface

I reviewed this delightfully retro DAC dongle and at this price, it's a punchy and talented no-brainer

By Carrie Marshall published

Editor's Choice

FiiO's ultra-portable wired DAC delivers a significant audio upgrade to your computer, smartphone or tablet

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Product photo of the MECOOL MEon1 4K GTV Streaming Box on a dark surface in front of what looks like the lower section of a big TV

This new Google TV 4K box not only has Dolby Vision and Atmos, but another nice trick: you can add more storage using a microSD card

By Carrie Marshall published

A cheaper alternative to Google's own TV streamer

Holding the iFi GO Blu Air in a hand, with a pebbledashed wall behind it

Hit the road, jack? Not at all, iFi's tiny Go Blu Air DAC brings the headphone port back to your phone — and levels up the audio to boot

By Carrie Marshall published

This tiny Bluetooth DAC brings the headphone jack back to your smartphone, laptop and more. It delivers long battery life and impressive power output for such a small device. It sounds great too.

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