The Amazon Fire TV Stick is basically a streaming device. It comes with a remote, some cables and batteries, and an HDMI-CEC, which is technically the Fire Stick part. From it, you can use apps like ...

Unlike Ikea’s Tradfri lighting remote, which uses a series of five buttons laid out in a circular pattern, the Symfonisk volume remote works more like the click wheel on Apple’s first iPod. The entire ...

This week far finer-grain control over audio volume has been released for most Android devices. This control comes in an unofficial app by the name of Precise Volume – and it comes without cost. There ...

Microsoft has released software updates for the Xbox Series S and X and the Xbox app for iOS and Android that bring some quality-of-life improvements and small tweaks that you may notice the next time ...

A TV without a remote is like a car without a steering wheel, but they weren't always ubiquitous. Some of the earliest ones ...

Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, and as a record producer. Steve reviewed audio products for CNET and worked as a freelance writer for ...

"Since updating, the F3, F4, and F5 keys no longer work for controlling volume. They do adjust something, as the white volume control meter pops up and adjusts up and down - it just doesn't affect the ...

If you want to consolidate your remotes a bit and control your TV’s volume using your Apple TV remote, here’s how to easily set that up. The Apple TV set-top box itself doesn’t have its own volume, so ...

It seems like remote controls are the one piece of any equipment that we’re never really happy with. Many manufacturers seem to have given up. They know their remotes are barely adequate and trust ...

I got an open box M-Audio M-Track Solo for silly cheap, just for laughs. I know absolutely nothing about music creation, but I do have quite a collection of USB DACs and the price was good... and I ...

The vastly improved Siri Remote that ships with the fourth-generation Apple TV includes dedicated volume buttons, which can be programmed to control volume levels on TVs and receivers, even via legacy ...