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Your Plex account may have been compromised

If you are using your computer or other connected devices for your media and entertainment experiences. Plex is a media server platform and also a player, that has been in development that has been in development since 2008 and can work with Windows, MacOS, Linux and Free BSD, as well as on platforms such as Apple TV and Roku.  If

Amazon continues to keep Fire TV on sale

Amazon released Fire TV back in 2014, and it took off fairly quickly, becoming second behind only the Roku box. Since then, the television market has caught up to it, it’s no longer just Netflix and Hulu anymore. And now TV has mostly moved to the internet, with services like Sling, YouTube TV, Hulu TV and others.  Prior to Black

New Tom Hanks movie to be released straight to Apple TV as an exclusive

I'm sure I don't need to remind anyone of who Tom Hanks is. The man who gave us things like Philadelphia, Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan, Cast Away, Captain Phillips and Sully, just to name a few. Now Hanks has a new movie and this release will be unique, but also a sign of the times we’re living in. With theaters closed Sony

VLC patches multiple security flaws, two critical

There are many options out there for media playback, we've come a long way since Windows Media Player and Quicktime.  Alternatives abound, and some of them quite compelling. Take the Video Lan Client, better known to everyone as VLC, which is capable playing almost any format a user can throw at it. Like any software, however, there are always bugs,

Sharing Fatigue

For some time, something has been going on with me I’ve been struggling to explain. My motivation to share things via social media has been waning. When podcasting came along in 2004, and social media was still in its infancy, my motivation to share was strong. For several years, I was creating and posting new content at a furious rate.

Amazon Fire TV

After weeks of speculation, Amazon has finally shown its hand in the set-top box game with the Fire TV. It's a $99 box with a Bluetooth remote control that connects to your HD TV and shows Amazon content plus media from partners, including Netflix, Hulu, ESPN and Pandora. Initially, this doesn't sound terribly different from the Roku and Apple TV

XBMC moves to Gotham beta 1

XBMC began life as Xbox Media Center, but the platform has come a long way since those early days. It's become one of the hottest platform for HTPC enthusiasts, though it is far from the only one. Now XBMC is moving towards its latest release, announcing beta one of the new Gotham release. "After a year of hard work, improvements