In its quest to become your go-to service for any all media, Plex has just announced one of its biggest updates yet. Now, you can use the app as a DVR to record TV shows directly to your Plex server.

Plex is one of our favourite ways to stream your media between devices. Sometimes, however, streaming can take a long time depending on what format your media is in. Use Plex's optimise feature to solve this problem ahead of time and get smooth playback anywhere.

Kodi, one of our two favourite home theatre apps, has been updated to version 16, adding a few new useful features. This includes the very-handy long-press on TV remotes.

Popcorn Time may be dead, but its spirit lives on. Torrents Time is a browser plugin developed by the team behind a fork of Popcorn Time that allows you to stream torrents directly in your browser.

The Chromecast is a pretty awesome media player that pays for itself. If you want to use it without the internet, though, you're fresh out of luck. This custom ROM can change that.

Who needs Netflix? With home theatre apps like Plex and Kodi, you can roll your own sweet-looking library with all the TV shows and movies you like, with none of the junk. But which software should you use? Here's how the two biggest solutions stack up against each other.

There are a bunch of places to buy or rent movies online, but prices can vary from one service to another. JustWatch checks most major online services to find you the best price.

Netflix is finally available in most countries. Not every country has the same library of shows, though. To find out what other countries are streaming, check out Flixed.

When television first got so unwieldy it was hard to know what was on, we invented the TV guide to make sense of it all. Now that streaming services are so huge, it's hard to know what's new. JustWatch is an app for iOS and Android that helps cut through the noise.

If you use the Plex media server for your movie and TV library and have ever used the Plex forums, you'll need to change your password this morning. The company announced its forum servers were hacked, leaving email addresses, forum messages and hashed passwords vulnerable.

We've been a fan of Kodi since it was still called XBMC. The Android version of the media centre app has been in an open beta for a while, but now that period is over. You can now download and install it on your phone, tablet or Android TV without joining a Google+ community.

Netflix has experimented with its interface in the US a lot over the years, but there's always been a bit of a disconnect between how the service looks in your browser and your various apps. Now, the company is updating its web site with a huge UI change to make it more app-like.

Hi Lifehacker, I'm one of the 250,000-odd Australians who already had a US Netflix account prior to its local launch this year. Given that with the exchange rate it's slightly cheaper in Australia (and that I can switch between the services with a VPN), is there any way I can switch my account over? I don't want to create a new Australian Netflix account and lose the curated 'My List' attached to my US account.

SBS absolutely nailed getting sports coverage online right when it broadcast the 2014 World Cup. Good news if you're a cycling fanatic, because it's gearing up to do the same for this year's Tour De France.

Chromecasts have made streaming media to your TV super-easy. The one downside is that the Chromecast typically requires a connection to the internet in order to stream anything, even if you have the media on your device. This workaround helps fix that.

There are countless universal remote control apps for smartphones, but chances are you don't really need them. A bunch of apps, including the likes of Spotify and YouTube, have built-in remote functions tucked away in the menus. Here's how to find them.

Region-blocked content is annoying -- and avoidable. Whether you want to view non-Australian versions of Netflix, instant access to the BBC iPlayer or a dose of iView when you're working overseas, here are the best (and easiest) ways to get that content.

When Telstra relaunched its Mobile Foxtel TV-channels-on-your-phone product last week, we noted that its limit of 30 minutes viewing a day and 200 total minutes viewing a month rendered it a terrible and pointless product. After we mentioned that, Telstra told us it never intended those restrictions to be included, and it has now altered the terms and conditions so that viewing via its Android and iOS apps isn't subject to limits.

A common complaint for Australian TV viewers is that sport rarely ends up on streaming services -- the only way to watch live is still often TV. Seven is about to improve that situation a little, promising live streaming to mobiles for some of its key events, including Wimbledon and the Australian Open.