Independent reviews
Gadget advice, minus the jargon.
A few of us forever setting this stuff up for mates and family kept getting asked the same thing - which one should I buy? So we started writing the answers down. Plain English, no spec sheets, no sponsored nonsense, just whether it's worth your money.
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Streaming
Roku Streaming Stick 4K
The simplest, most no-nonsense streamer there is - if you can live inside its walls.
Televisions
Philips The Xtra 65PML9009 (65" QD Mini LED, Ambilight)
One of the two tellies we test everything else on - and the Ambilight is genuinely hard to give back.
Streaming
Netgem Pleio (Freely Puck)
A free-live-TV box and a full Android TV streamer in one - a genuinely different idea.
Televisions
LG NanoCell 65NANO81A (65", 2025)
The sensible all-rounder telly - webOS that just works, picture that's good rather than stunning.
Streaming
Amazon Fire TV Stick HD
The cheapest stick in the range, and the one you can almost always talk yourself out of.
Streaming
Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Select
Cheap 4K - but it lives inside Amazon's walled garden, and for some people that's a dealbreaker.
Streaming
Apple TV 4K
The most polished streamer money can buy - and the most locked-down. A beautiful walled garden.
Streaming
Amazon Fire TV Cube (3rd gen)
The most powerful Fire TV, with proper hands-free Alexa baked in - if you can forgive its age.
Projectors
Aurzen EAZZE D1R (Roku projector)
A pocket cinema with Roku built in - genuinely fun, and strictly for dark rooms.
Streaming
Nvidia Shield TV Pro
The enthusiast's gold standard. Plays virtually any file, upscales the old stuff, and just keeps working - for a price.
Streaming
Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Plus
The one most people should buy. Runs everything, plays clean 4K, and costs the least of the sticks worth owning.
Streaming
Google TV Streamer (4K)
The upgrade pick. More power than any stick and the one thing they won't give you: a wired Ethernet port.
Streaming
Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Max (2nd gen)
The best Fire stick, and the one most people don't need. Brilliant, but the Plus does the job for less.
What we cover
Streaming sticks and boxes, home Wi-Fi gear, ethernet adapters, smart plugs, soundbars, and the small accessories that quietly fix big problems. We mostly stick to the affordable end - the kind of thing you buy on a Tuesday without a second mortgage - plus the two tellies we test everything else on.
If one of us has bought it, set it up, and got opinions, it ends up here. Want us to look at something? Tell us - the list is mostly whatever you lot keep asking about.