We've all been there: stuck on the motorway, in the sweltering heat, hours later than you than you meant to be, sick as an overheated parrot because your favourite show is about to start. Meanwhile, ...

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While conventional televisions are controlled using a physical remote, a feature on smartphones known as IR blaster has made this hardware somewhat obsolete, thanks to the best universal tv remote app ...

If you're like most people, you have several remotes strewn across your living room, each one controlling a different device — a remote for your cable box, one for your TV, another for your TV's ...

Regular Ars Technica readers probably have no use for a new Roku device—or, at least, not in 2016. If you haven’t already watched media-streaming apps on your television using a game console, an HTPC ...

One of the two key “cons” in my review was that the $230 Hue Play HDMI Sync Box, which I otherwise praised as the best way to make your lights pulse in sync with your TV, didn’t ship with a remote, ...

Remote controls are starting to feel obsolete as more and more devices are using mobile apps compatible with the iPhone and Android-based smartphones to operate and manage TVs as well as cable and set ...

There are five other Sky TV tricks you need to know YOUR Sky TV remote can not only control the Sky box – but your actual television too. It’s a handy trick and worth setting up if you’ve got a spare ...