Some phones have IR blasters to enable remote functions, but even if yours doesn't, you can do quite a lot over Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.

It's happened to all of us. You sit down on your couch with a snack, ready to binge your favorite TV show, only to realize that the remote is missing. You tear apart the couch, peer under chairs, and ...

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

In our opinion, remote controls are pretty much essential. But not all universal remotes can cut the mustard, so we used four key questions to guide our search: Does it offer responsive inputs with ...

Your TV remote is probably the number one gadget you hate losing. Without it, watching TV is just so inconvenient. You'd either have to get up from the couch to push the buttons on the back of the TV, ...

Which universal remotes are best? It can be incredibly frustrating to have to constantly swap between a handful of remotes to control your TV, Blu-ray player, soundbar, cable box and everything else ...

Find-my-remote function needs an additional Alexa device to work No rechargeable battery Not too different from other Amazon remotes The Fire TV Alexa Voice Remote Pro looks a lot like other Fire TV ...

While the newest Fire Stick remote is capable of controlling many — but not all — of the most popular TVs, soundbars, and other devices that use infrared technology, older models can only use ...

Apple this week added the Apple TV HD with the original Siri Remote to its vintage products list. The device became vintage on June 30, according to an internal memo obtained by MacRumors, but the ...

As Roku and others raise the price of their streaming players and TVs, it may be time to think about keeping your old one but upgrading it. Roku’s powerful Pro Remote is here—the ideal upgrade for ...