A couple of weeks ago I had Spectrum come to replace my Cisco cable box. In its place that gave me Arris. Never heard of them. Anyway after the repair man left, I went ahead to connect via a hdmi 2 x 1 splitter that worked perfectly with the Cisco box, but not with this one. I went to the store and...

I hope there are still people here as I know newsgroups seem to be becoming a thing of the past. Here's my problem. A couple of weeks ago, these artifacts appeared on my TV screen. It's a 65 inch Sony Bravia, about five years old. These are vertical lines on the lower right of the screen. I have...

Can someone tell me how playing a 7 Media Center .wtv file changes it, such that the before and after MD5 hashes differ? I use TeraCopy hashes to check that backups copied correctly or didn't develop disk errors, but many show different MD5s and also fail an fc /b comparison. For the pair I...

Maybe not the right group but I'll try. I have about 800 DVD's that I've bought over the years. I've digitized every one to .mp4 files and have them on an external hard drive hoooked to my smart TV. So if I want to watch a movie, I just change the TV input to the hard drive, pick out the movie and...

Years old Vizio E24-C1 HDTV v2.1.18.0000 is very slow with its YouTube app and sometimes freezes. When the HDTV freezes in YouTube after a hour, we can't even turn it off or do anything. We have to pull its power plug. Also, the wifi router is in the next room over and very strong according to...

I have a Vizio with TruVolume Its a feature designed to "maintain a comfortable listening level when a commercial on or changing channels" However, when I have it set to ON, the volume is ALL over the place! Even varying up/down within same show! Bought the TV at Costco so no problem taking...

Hello. What's a good smart HDTV that can be seen and bought in person in local LA and OC retail stores that meet these limited space requirements? 1. 16" height. 2. 28" width. It will fit inside an old wooden cabinet's desk. Fry's Electronics, Best Buy, Costco, Target, etc. didn't have good...

TV was fine until I removed the cables and reattached. When turned back on no channels found. I've tried to scan again, no luck. I reset to factory settings. Same issue. Under Installation - Channel Options it shows all the channels as Analog. Is that my issue and is there a way to change those...

A couple of months ago I got a $3.50 increase for my monthly rate. The fact that i didn't get it around Xmas time for a change, I thought. oh OK, $3.50 is not that bad, though i did not like it. Now, today i opened my bill and they added another $18 bucks, and I am steaming. Tomorrow I am...

https://www.techhive.com/article/3238079/tv-antenna/does-next-gen-tv- spell-doom-for-over-the-air-dvr.html "But the long-term health of these products could be in doubt now that the FCC and broadcasters are moving forward on ATSC 3.0. At best, their fates are unclear. At worst, the march...

We were all set to watch an old movie on TCM which I have been watching sparingly for the past 12 years as a subscriber that included TCM free. On the screen it advise us to call a phone number. I told my wife, I bet they are going to charge us now to pay extra in order to watch that channel....

So this tv, older. vizio gallevia was getting digital channels on antenna for awhile then we moved it to another room and it had cable. Now its back in bedroom and we are trying to switch it back to broadcast antenna. But when we choose input and tv go to menu on remote we choose air and then auto...

I don't even know if this group is still alive, but I'll try my question. I have a Western Digital 4Tb external hard drive with several hundred movies I've ripped onto it, hooked up by USB to the TV in my living room. We also have a newer TV with USB inputs in the bedroom. I'm wondering if I could...

Trying to get the DVR to turn on for recordings from the powered down mode. When I first got the DVR, it wouldn't record off the guide so I called and got a reset code, and that seemed to do the trick. Wouldn't you know, it waited four years for me to misplace that code? So, I'm looking online,...

I've been researching online video to bring it to my TV at home. I subscribe to Netflix, so that is the first thing I looked at. From my computer, on a 3Mb DSL service, the quality is all over the place. Some very good, others suck badly, but what all of it seems to have is stop-motion often...

I watch TV at night using headphones so as not to bother my wife trying to sleep. I've noticed lately that on some shows, most notably M*A*S*H, but on a few others, lines of dialog are echoed faintly in the background with about a half second or second delay. Any idea what this phenomenon is?...

I recently got a CCTV security camera with a DVR. It came with no manual, only a CD. The instructions have many typographical errors. The package says you can see your cameras from a smart phone. The instructions were clear as mud.

ADB 5810WX High-Def DVR Two questions: 1. Is there a reboot key sequence to avoid having to unplug? 2. Is there a key sequence to bring up diagnostic screens? TIA

Forget DVDs, forget Blu-Ray. Disney and Panasonic see the future and that future is movies on flash cards. That’s right, those same tiny memory cards that you buy for your digital camera/MP3 player will soon be available with films pre-loaded on. Disney and Panasonic are starting things off by...

But I know there's a lot of brain power here. At least I hope so. I mean, I hope this group isn't dead too. I haven't seen any new posts here in quite a while. Okay, so last year, I built a new computer. I put in two Samsung 500Gb solid state drives which are drives C and D. I also installed a...