Category: TVs & Streaming

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

Lines on Your TV Screen? How to Tell a Cable Fault From a Dying Panel

Vertical and horizontal lines mean different things, and one simple test separates a cheap fix from an expensive one.

Casting fails almost entirely for network reasons: separate bands, guest networks, or AP isolation stopping devices seeing each other.

Lip sync problems come from processing delay, and the fix depends on whether it is the TV, the soundbar or the source…

Before buying a universal remote, check whether your TV's own app will do. When you do need hardware, the official replacement is…

When a service stops supporting your television, the panel is still fine. A streaming stick restores every app for a fraction of…

When one device fails and others play fine, the fault is that device's app or storage. Here is how to isolate it…

That oddly cheap look on a new TV is motion interpolation, switched on by default. Here is what to turn off, by…

There is a thirty-second test that tells you whether a TV remote is transmitting at all, using a camera you already own.

Smart TV apps fail because the television is short of storage, running old firmware, or holding a corrupted cache. Here is the…

Constant buffering is rarely your internet speed. It is usually Wi-Fi at the TV, a full device cache, or the stick overheating…

Lips moving before the words arrive, or after. Here is why audio delay happens, where in the chain it is introduced, and…

A TV that drops to No Signal at random is usually a handshake or cable problem, not a failing television. Here is…