Film & TV
Why HDR sometimes looks worse than SDR
HDR promises brighter highlights and deeper shadows. On a lot of televisions it delivers a dim, washed-out picture instead — and the reasons are usually fixable.
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Games
Cloud gaming latency: where the lag actually comes from
Cloud gaming feels laggy for reasons that have little to do with your download speed. The delay is several separate stages stacked on top of each other, and only some are yours to fix.
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Software
Why updates break things, and what to do about it
Updating immediately and never updating are both bad policies. The workable version depends on what kind of update it is and how much a failure would cost you.
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Games
Why modern games are 150 GB
Install sizes have grown far faster than games have got bigger. The causes are mundane, and several of them are choices made to help your console rather than to fill your drive.
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Film & TV
Subtitles, captions, and why the timing drifts
Subtitles and closed captions are not the same feature, and when timing drifts out the cause is usually a frame rate mismatch rather than a badly made file.
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Games
What happens to a game when the servers go off
Some games stop existing when a company decides they should. Which ones are vulnerable comes down to a single question: how much of the game lives on someone else's computer?
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Music
FLAC, MP3 or AAC: which format is actually worth the storage
Lossless files are four to six times larger than a good AAC encode. Whether you can hear the difference depends far less on the format than on three things almost nobody checks first.
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Film & TV
Why your film looks soft even at 4K
Resolution is the number services advertise. Bitrate is the number that decides how the picture actually looks — and unlike resolution, it changes constantly while you watch.
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Guides
The 20-minute subscription audit
Most people underestimate their recurring spending, and the reason is structural: charges appear under names that don't match the brands, across at least five separate places. Here's a method that catches them.
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Software
Cloud storage or an external drive: what each one is actually for
They look like alternatives and they aren't. Sync, backup and archive are three different jobs, and using one tool for all three is how people lose files.
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