Category: TVs & Streaming

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

TV Picture Too Dark in Films? Fix It Without Ruining the Picture

Dark scenes where you cannot see anything are usually a picture mode and a room lighting problem, not a bad TV.

Auto standby timers, a weak signal on the input, and HDMI-CEC are the three usual causes. Each has a straightforward fix.

One remote controlling everything is the promise. When it goes wrong you get volume on the TV instead of the soundbar. Here…

No signal with a device clearly powered means the handshake failed. Here is the sequence that re-establishes it.

Audio arriving before or after the picture is a processing delay, not a broken soundbar. Here is how to line them back…

The app is wrong about what is broken. Usually it is DNS, the clock, or the app cache rather than your connection.

Flicker, brightness that pulses, or a picture that dims on dark scenes. Some of these are settings, some are a failing backlight.…

Apps closing back to the home screen, freezing on the loading spinner, or refusing to open at all. The causes are the…

Silent TV with a perfect picture is almost always an audio output setting, an HDMI handshake, or a soundbar that has taken…

Unresponsive buttons, a remote that only works up close, or one that pairs and then stops. Here is how to bring it…

Evening-only buffering has two possible causes, and one is inside your house while the other is your provider's. Telling them apart is…

A sluggish smart TV is usually short of storage or memory. Some of that is fixable, and some is the set showing…