Category: TVs & Streaming

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

Out of HDMI Ports? HDMI Switch, Soundbar or AV Receiver Explained

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

That strangely cheap look on films is motion interpolation. Here is what it is called on each brand and when you might…

Sound without picture usually means the panel or backlight rather than the source. Here is the flashlight test that tells you which…

Apps that close back to the home screen are usually running out of memory or holding a corrupted cache. Here is what…

Dark HDR is usually a settings mismatch rather than a weak TV. Here is the order to check picture mode, tone mapping,…

Evening-only buffering is usually congestion, not a broken router. Here is how to tell whether it is your house, your street, or…

You can set up almost any modern TV with no remote at all. Here is how, per brand, plus the physical button…

Your TV is watching what you watch. Here is exactly which settings collect data, where to find them, and what you lose…

Predictable evening slowdowns are congestion, either in your neighbourhood or in your own house. Here is how to tell which.

When one app is out of sync and everything else is fine, the fix belongs in that app, not in the TV…

Height is the decision that matters most, and most wall-mounted televisions are mounted too high.

A picture that stalls and then skips ahead to catch up is a network problem, not a TV fault. Here is how…