When it comes to action-heavy gaming, your monitor is just as important as your rig. One of the best upgrades to make these days is an OLED monitor, doubly so if you can get one that’s uber-fast at a great price. Right now, the Sony Inzone M10S is only $715, a whopping 35% off its usual $1,100 price and the cheapest we’ve ever seen it. This is a super-slim 27-inch OLED monitor that looks gorgeous and performs well with a sweet spot 1440p resolution and a 0.03ms response time. Sony developed this in cooperation with Fnatic, one of the world’s best e-sports teams, and that the monitor is “tournament-ready.” If you’re not going to believe the pros, who’s advice are you going to take? The OLED panel here delivers brilliant colors, vivid images, and perfect black levels. It’s rare to see them this fast, though, and even rarer to see them this cheap. On top of the blazing-fast 480Hz, you get Nvidia G-Sync compatibility and fanless cooling, plus connectivity via two HDMI, one DisplayPort, two USB-A, and a 3.5mm audio jack. We reviewed the Inzone M10S and gave it 4 stars, finding that it delivers superb image quality and motion performance. Our main issue with it was price, but that’s not an issue with this discount. Snag it for just $715 while you can because this deal isn’t going to last! Get this 480Hz 1440p OLED gaming monitor for incredibly cheapBuy now at Amazon Read...

Remember the plan for HBO Max and Discovery to mix their content together into an all-new streaming called “Max”? Well, forget all that.  Not even a month after declaring that Max would soon be HBO Max again, parent company Warner Bros. Discovery has announced what pretty much everyone in the industry could see coming: a breakup.  Specifically, Warner Bros. Discovery will split in two, with one company taking on HBO Max along with Warner Bros.’s film and TV studios, while the other company will take the (declining) cable assets, including CNN, TBS, and TNT, plus sports, the Discovery linear channels, and Discovery+.  The announcement of the split leaves many questions unanswered for streamers. What happens to Discovery content on HBO Max? What about Bleacher Report, the bundle of live sports that’s moving to the second “global networks” business? Will there be pricing changes? (Are there stars in the sky?) And when is all this going to happen?  Many of the answers will have to wait, as the Warner Bros. Discovery split likely won’t be finalized until the middle of next year. That said, we should expect the “Max” streaming service of today to look very different from the “HBO Max” of 2026.  Namely, Max—er, HBO Max—is pivoting away from the whole “something for everybody” strategy that drove the decision to merge HBO Max and Discovery+ in the first place.   In announcing today’s decision to shareholders, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav put it plainly. “We put HBO back in [to HBO Max] for a reason. People see us as the highest quality streaming service out there,” Zaslav said (according to The Hollywood Reporter), while promising to double down on “all the HBO content” as well as the biggest Warner Bros. movie and TV properties.  For HBO Max, that means a move away from children’s programming, reality shows, and other content that didn’t bear the traditional HBO moniker—in short, all the stuff that’s going to the other company. Two separate companies with separate missions and content make for an easier story to tell customers as well as investors—or at least, so goes the current thinking.  And why go to all the trouble in the first place? It’s all part of the (maddening) cycle of business, from conglomeration to divestiture and back again. Who doesn’t love a merry-go-round? Read...

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Why pay for Max, Hulu, Peacock, and other streaming services when you can give them a try for free?   Many of the big streaming services will let you sample their wares for a limited time—generally a week, or sometimes even a month—for the ultra-low price of zip.  These free streaming trials come and go, so you’ll want to grab them while they’re still available. Also, most free streaming trials are only for new customers, although some services do offer free trials to lapsed subscribers.  Read on for eight of the best free trials now available from the big streaming services, including some clever strategies for nabbing free trials that aren’t so obvious.  Free 30-day streaming trials  Hulu  Free trial: Yes Length: 30 days  New and “eligible” returning customers can sign up for a whopping 30 days of free Hulu, including both Hulu with ads and the ad-free version of Hulu.   That should leave you plenty of time to sample such hit shows as Abbott Elementary, The Bear, Better Things, Fargo, Shogun, The Handmaid’s Tale, and Only Murders in the Building.  Sign up for a 30-day Hulu free trial Amazon Prime Video  Free trial: Yes Length: 30 days  You can snag a full month of free Amazon Prime Video simply by grabbing a free trial of Amazon Prime, which includes such benefits as free and fast shipping, unlimited photo storage, ad-free music streaming, games, free Kindle books, and more.  Among the top shows on Amazon Prime Video right now are Fallout, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Jack Ryan, Reacher, Cross, The Summer I Turned Pretty, The Wheel of Time, and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.  Sign up for a 30-day Amazon Prime free trial Apple TV+  Free trial: Yes Length: 7 day, or 30 days with Apple One trial Apple offers a free 7-day trial for its Apple TV+ streaming service, but get this: You can actually get 30 free days of Apple TV+ if you sign up for the month-long free trial of Apple One, Apple’s bundle of online services. Even better, you can snag three months of free Apple TV+ with the purchase of a new iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, or Mac. The only catch is that Apple only offers free trials for services that you’ve never subscribed to or otherwise “experienced”–meaning you can’t get a 30-day trial of Apple One with Apple TV+ and then turn around and get the 7-day Apple TV+ free trial.  Apple TV+ offers such shows as Severance, The Studio, Your Friends and Neighbors, Murderbot, Silo, Ted Lasso, The Morning Show, Slow Horses, Masters of the Air, Sugar, Palm Royale, Franklin, Dark Matter, Shrinking, For All Mankind, Foundation, Hijack, Trying, and more.  Sign up for an Apple One 30-day free trial Free 7-day streaming trials  Paramount+  Free trial: Yes Length: 1 week, or 30 days with code  Paramount+ generally has a 7-day free trial going for new subscribers. The streamer also used to be generous with coupon codes for offering a free month of access, but those codes have been tougher to come by lately. If you can’t nab a code or you’ve burned through the standard 7-day trial for new Paramount+ subscribers, you can always get another week-long trial via Amazon Prime Video Channels, Apple TV Channels, and The Roku Channel.  Popular shows on Paramount+ include 1883, The Amazing Race, Big Brother, The Daily Show, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Star Trek: Picard, The Good Fight, Survivor, Halo, Yellowjackets, Tulsa King, and Mayor of Kingstown.  Sign up for a 7-day Paramount+ free trial Peacock  Free trial: No (but yes, shhhh!)Length: Varies Peacock is one of the few streaming services that doesn’t offer a free trial on its home page, but we found a sneaky way to get a free Peacock trial.  Instead of going straight to Peacock for free streaming, try his: Head over to Instacart and check out Instacart+. You’ll notice that one of the key benefits of Instacart+ is free access to Peacock, and—you guessed it—you can sign up for a free Instacart+ trial.   Keep in mind that the length of the Instacart+ free trial varies; as of this writing, it’s two weeks.  Top shows on Peacock include Poker Face, Vanderpump Rules, The Office, Community, Saturday Night Live, The Traitors, 30 Rock, Girls5eva, Parks and Recreation, Mrs. Davis, and We Are Lady Parts.  Sign up for an Instacart+ free trial AMC+  Free trial: Yes Length: 7 days  The home of The Walking Dead and its many spinoffs still offers a 7-day free trial. Like most of its competitors, AMC+ restricts its free trial to new subscribers, although you can extend your free streaming by signing up for additional trials through Amazon Prime, Apple TV Channels, and The Roku Channel.  Among AMC+ biggest shows are The Walking Dead, Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Hell on Wheels, Dark Winds, Fear the Walking Dead, The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, and The Walking Dead: Dead City.  Sign up for a 7-day AMC+ Free Trial Discovery+  Free trial: Yes Length: 7 days  Yes, you can still subscribe to Discovery+ as a standalone service following its merger with Max (soon to be HBO Max once again); and yes, there is a 7-day free trial—although again, it’s only for new subscribers.  Shows on Discovery+ run the gamut from Hillsong: A Megachurch Exposed and Love Off the Grid to Naked and Afraid of Love, Queen of Meth, The Haunted Museum, Selling the Hamptons, and Million Dollar Wheels.  Sign up for a 7-day Discovery+ free trial Free 3-day streaming trial Disney+ and ESPN+ with Hulu (No Ads) + Live TV There’s no month-long or even 7-day free trial for Disney+ or ESPN+, but you can get a 3-day trial of both in a bundle with Hulu + Live TV. Three days is better than nothing, right? Just be sure to cancel this 3-day trial for Disney+, ESPN+, and Hulu + Live TV before your time is up; otherwise, you’ll be on the hook for a whopping $82.99 a month. Disney+ is your hub for all things Marvel, Star Wars, Pixar, and Disney, while ESPN+ serves up a menu of live and prerecorded sports programming (note that ESPN+ doesn’t offer a live simulcast of the ESPN cable network). Sign up for a 3-day trial of Disney+, ESPN+, and Hulu + Live TV Does HBO Max offer a free trial? Max—which, again, is soon to be re-rebranded as HBO Max—rarely offers free trials and isn’t doing so now, but it does offer a small selection of free episodes if you want a quick taste. For example, you can stream the series premiere of The Last of Us for free, and you can also stream episodes of Euphoria, Succession, The Penguin, The Gilded Age, and 100 Foot Wave for free. Stream free Episodes of Max shows Does Netflix offer a free trial? Nope, Netflix doesn’t hand out free trials at this time, but we’ll update this story if anything changes. Don’t forget to cancel Most streaming services will begin charging your credit card as soon as your free trial runs out, so be sure to cancel your trial before the first billing date. While some free streaming trials will end immediately once they’re canceled, others will allow you to continue streaming for the remainder of the trial period. Read...

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