Olivia Wilde didn't recognize her own film after watching it on a flight. The reason in-flight movies get re-cut has little to do with the airline and everything to do with an invisible vendor.

Eighty-five percent of Netflix viewers now watch with captions on, and most of them can hear just fine. Mumbled dialogue and a generation raised on TikTok text are why.

Professional subtitle files are timed down to the frame. The gap between that precision and what actually plays on your TV comes down to three technical culprits -- and one of them gets worse the longer you watch.

Vinyl just logged its 19th straight year of U.S. sales growth, RIAA data shows, even though digital audio wins on nearly every measurable spec. The real explanation has little to do with sound.

Netflix raised prices for the second time in just over a year in March 2026, days after walking away from an $82.7 billion Warner Bros. Discovery bid. It's part of a wider pattern across every major streamer.

Britain's under-16 social media ban has a price for advertisers: eMarketer trimmed its 2027 UK digital ad forecast by £1.3bn. The question is where the money goes.