Published May 6, 2026, 11:30 AM EDT

Patrick O'Rourke is XDA's News Editor and Entertainment Segment Lead. Previously, he was Pocket-lint's Editor-in-Chief, the Editor-in-Chief of Canadian tech publication MobileSyrup , and earlier in his career, he worked as the technology editor at the Financial Post and Postmedia . He's based in Toronto.

Over the past 15 years, he's written thousands of articles. Patrick has also interviewed dozens of tech industry executives and covered GDC, E3, Gamescom, WWDC, Apple keynotes, Samsung Unpacked events and more.

Patrick has a BA in journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University.

When I first got my mid-range 60-inch Hisense U8H TV a couple of years ago, I mounted it on the wall, plugged it into a wall outlet, and started hooking devices up to it.

There's my Xbox One X, which I still keep around for couch multiplayer gaming with my partner, the PlayStation 5, the OG Switch and its dock, the Apple TV 4K, and, of course, my great-sounding Polk Audio Command Sound Bar and…