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No, he's right. The change though is he's more likely to be a guy working from home rather than a shop. I have a friend down in Perranporth, Cornwall, who repairs hundreds of TVs a year. You'll find someone via Facebook market place, FreeAds, FridayAds, maybe Loot.

The test for failing capacitors (a common problem) is heat and cold, but if SWMBO won't let you tinker then it's all a bit moot. Buy a new TV. It's an expensive solution as an alternative to replacing £2.00 worth of parts, but if she can do without new shoes or meals out for a while then it...

I'm in the trade but not as a retailer. My skill set is different. The main business I have centres around installation, so the physical stuff of taking houses apart to conceal cabling and fix hardware into the fabric of the building before putting it all back together again. The other part of...

Are we talking new or used? New; everything should be HD capable, and yes, that means it will pick up the BBC HD channels so long as you can receive them from your local transmitter. The good stuff from reputable brands will be pricey though. I'm seeing Manhatten boxes with a built-in hard...

The Echo Dot accesses the same range of Internet radio stations as you can get via a laptop or smart phone. It's possible then to check quite easily if the stations you want to listen to have broadcasting rights for the net. (Not all UK terrestrial radio stations have this.) I mention it because...

Reading between the lines I think this might be more about just getting access to some radio stations rather than trying to apply Alexa skills to something that really isn't up to it.

Painting with a very broad brush, loudspeakers need at least a couple of Volts and maybe about 0.1A of current to make enough noise that you hear them from 10ft away. The Line out on an Echo provides maybe 1V and no appreciable current. Get those speakers up close - within arm's reach - and you...

It's not safe to make any presumptions. In the main, you have - Blu-ray players - a device which only plays discs. The discs can be DVD or Blu-ray. There is no recording. Play/player means exactly that. - TV Harddrive recorders with Blu-ray playback. This is a one-box solution for someone who...

If you can afford it, and by some miracle your missus would let you have a 55", then the LG G3 is the one to get. These have the heatsink panel and the micro-lenses, so they go brighter than the C3 with less risk of image retention. The rtings review site has been running accelerated wear tests...

Some of this could be context sensitive menus. For example, if I go into the settings on my TV, the Freeview tuning menu only appear if the TV is in DTV mode. I know that may sound really obvious, and begs the question why anyone would want to access the Freeview menus when a HDMI input is being...

If this was a "what should I buy?" thread, then I think your comments about the price disparity would have some merit. In the general way of things, a £90 sound bar is rarely paired with a £1,000 TV where a person takes the time and effort to ask for advice before purchasing. However, as...

@Hysteresis , thanks for the model number. Now we have that I can see the appropriate user manuals and better understand the issues you're having. The first thing to say is that LG's user manuals are about as much use as a chocolate teapot. It's irksome that in talking about one thing they...

You're not wrong about Currys staff in the main. There are probably a few exceptions, but not many. TV sound generally sucks. It has become progressively worse as TVs got thinner over the years. Sony's vibrating screen is a bit like NXT technology from the early aughties. It works pretty well...

I'm sure you probably know this, but you can't always rely on the opinions of others in things such as Amazon and Currys reviews. Some folks are easily pleased. The Sharp sound bar is £90, and that includes a wireless sub. If you breakdown all the costs, stuff such as resellers profit, VAT...

The simple answer is no. The reason as far as satellite goes are: (1) that the thing on the end of the dish (the LNB) is actively driven by a satellite receiver. The receiver provides power, and it also changes the LNB receiver state so that it can receive signals at various frequencies and...

The guys here are correct, a replacement remote is the best answer. It doesn't need to be the original manufacturer part. There are plenty of good duplicate remotes available. One of the One4All universal remotes will probably do, but check that it has all the button options you need for all...

I presume you've got picture from the Blu-ray player? If so, audio should follow. It is embedded as part of the signal that carries picture. You can't have one without the other. Things will be a bit different though if you're just trying to play it 'audio only' and trying to use the TV as...

BIB In this case I don't believe that's true. All else being equal, we can take a pretty accurate educated guess. Where there's an existing small Log, a larger Log of equal or better quality will pull in more signal. Read through the OP. All the clues are there.

Your current aerial is a small Log Periodic, you said. Logs are always wideband, but how big that band is has changed over time. Originally it went from channel 21 up to channel 68. (Each channel number is a progressively higher frequency in megahertz.) The aerials have coloured markers on their...

There's no budget mentioned. Nor is there an idea of how you might use it. The CD player can be portable, so are you looking for an equally-portable speaker, or is mains power only totally acceptable? All of this does make it a bit tricky for anyone to come up with suggestions other than what...