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​Tesla is poised to add yet more entertainment options for owners of tis electric vehicles, with CEO Elon Musk confirming that Netflix and YouTube streaming will soon be enabled on its generously-sized in-car displays.

The marketplace for streaming TV dongles looks pretty crowded, with solid offerings such as Google's Chromecast Amazon's Fire TV Stick and Roku's Streaming Stick. Is there room for one more? With the launch of its 4K HDR AirTV Mini this week, Dish obviously thinks so.

Netflix has finally given attention to optimizing its audio streaming technology in the same way its adaptive video system can seamlessly recalibrate video bitrates while a stream is underway. The company claims its audio streams are now perceptually indistinguishable from studio quality sound.

Black Mirror's latest instalment, called Bandersnatch, presents audiences with one of the most sophisticated interactive film experiences to date, but is this a glimpse of the future of entertainment, or a dead-end experiment that leeches out everything fundamentally important to storytelling?​

​Over the next 12 months several major players will enter the streaming game, challenging Netflix's supremacy and massively complicating the world of film and television. Disney, Warners, Apple, and Facebook are just the tip of the iceberg in the oncoming streaming wars.

Amazon has announced the latest in its line of Alexa-enabled streaming devices, the Fire TV Cube, which lets you bark voice commands at the TV and other devices from across the room, and access other Alexa mainstays like weather and sports updates.

As Spotify reveals constant revenue losses we ask , is subscription-based music streaming a viable business model and how long can these giant companies operate if they are constantly hemorrhaging money?

As Netflix steps into the blockbuster movie territory and MoviePass brings new disruptions to an old model, we witness a transformative moment for the movie business. What can theaters do to rekindle their dwindling audiences? Is the answer in the same technology that is threatening its existence?​

​Sci-fi is now the mainstream and we’re seeing millions spent bringing stories to the screen that are gloriously weird and fantastically futurist. Here are our picks looking forward to 2018 on both the big and small screens, from blockbuster sci-fi spectacle to compelling hard science speculations.

With Apple, Facebook and Disney set to enter the world of streaming a big question for audiences is arising: How many monthly subscriptions can you handle and how much more fragmented can this streaming world get before things sour?

Before "interactive movie" video games there were Choose Your Own Adventure books. Streaming video technology has now allowed Netflix to embrace the concept and release its first interactive "branching" narrative​ program that gives viewers a say in how the story progresses.

As part of Netflix's annual Hack Day, where product development teams are set loose to innovate new, out-of-the-box ideas, a prototype has been developed that allows a user to control the Netflix interface with the power of their mind.