I wrote previously about not being able to turn on my TV. I traced the problem to my Acer Desktop computer being on since I had been using my TV as a monitor. I was trying to figure out what went wrong. My TV isn’t
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I wrote about this problem before: I could not get my TV to turn on without unplugging the power first. For the last couple of mornings, when I got up, my TV was ON. It turned on by itself. If I turned it off for
Jim first posed this question back in 2020, comparing the warranty for a $35 toaster with that of a $1700 laptop. Nothing has changed in the interim. Should warranties on major electrical items be longer than 12 months? Let us know your thoughts via the
Last week I covered how to manage Roku TV power-saving settings. If you missed it, here is the link: How To Manage Roku TV Power Saving Settings This week I wanted to stay on the Roku subject. I have been messing around on my device
Cut The Cord Adding a Bluetooth transmitter and receiver is a great way to upgrade an older TV or a newer one not fitted with Bluetooth. Living in a condo or an apartment often means listening to your favorite movies in a subdued volume so
This is a tad off-topic but, with streaming video services gaining universal popularity, I guess not too far off the beaten track. Anyway, it’s an article I’ve been keen to present for some time. TV shows and movies are extremely subjective of course — one
I have a TV that makes a better monitor than my monitors. I could hook up the TV and computer at the same time but that means switching back and forth from one source to the next. I have like half a dozen monitors and,
My old TV decided not to turn on for 15 minutes every time I pushed the power button. This was a little annoying so I told my wife I needed to find a better TV (asked her while she was busy with the kids so
Here are a couple quick fixes for Windows that you may run into sometime. Fix #1 – CD/DVD Error Code 41 I originally wrote this back in 2009. I had Windows XP at the time and I did fix a Vista laptop with the same
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The kind folks over at Frame Your TV have created an interesting infographic showing how Netflix, and streaming in general, are changing the way we watch TV.
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Watching us, watching them For many of us, watching TV is no longer the linear, force fed diet of scheduled ads every ten minutes interspersed with trash soap and reality shows, and the argument over whether the Internet killed the TV star is still being
Warning; rant follows! You’ve no doubt heard the saying… “bad things always happen in threes”. I recently experienced such an episode (or maybe tripisode?) regarding my home entertainment equipment. Three of my electronic components went kaput, one after another, with barely a week between each.
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What’s wrong with our internet? We all know that not everyone has broadband available to them. It would be silly to think otherwise, but what you may not realize it that the U.S., also known as the location where the internet began, lags behind many
