Ty Pendlebury is CNET's senior editor for TV and home audio, and author of the daily Insider newsletter. He has rigorously tested, reviewed and written about AV equipment for the company since 2006.

It's fair to say UK TV not only offers some of the best – quintessentially British – entertainment, but it also generously gives much of it away for free! Whether it's reality TV hits such as Love ...

Cable TV used to be the only way people kept up with world news, watched live TV, and supported their favorite sports teams from afar. But in the late 2010s, as high-speed internet came to every ...