Category: TVs & Streaming

Smart TVs, streaming sticks, HDMI, sound and picture problems.

Should You Update Your TV Firmware? How to Do It Safely

TV updates fix real HDMI and app problems and occasionally cause new ones. Here is when to update and how.

Firmware updates can reset network settings or change security handling. Here is how to get the TV back online.

A television set up for a showroom is painful in a dark room. Here is what to change and why bias lighting…

An app that opens and never loads is usually a network or storage problem rather than a broken app. Here is how…

You cannot remove every advert, and you can stop them being targeted and reduce how prominent they are. Here is how, per…

Stuck pixels sometimes recover, dead ones do not. Here is how to tell them apart and what manufacturers will accept as a…

A TV that jumps to another device is doing what CEC told it. Here is how to keep the convenience without the…

Subtitle problems come from the app, the device and the TV, each with their own settings. Here is where to look for…

Different services mix audio at different levels. Here is which settings tame it without ruining the sound.

Brief blackouts with the sound continuing, or both dropping together, point at different causes. Here is how to tell them apart.

TVs sit low, behind glass and metal, at the far end of the house. Here is how to work out whether it…

Three ways to connect more devices to one TV, with different costs and different failure modes. Here is which suits your setup.