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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...

I'm guessing that this isn't a newish TV? There were a number of flatscreen TVs made as crossover models; PC monitor / TV. This is going back a while, late 2000s to early 2010s IIRC. I supplied a few for various jobs. The difference compared to a regular TV was the resolution and pixel response...

Two facepalms in just five posts worth of a thread. That's some going. I take it reading isn't a strong skill for you. Maybe go back and reread post #14 where I write about wireless video senders - old analogue ones and newer versions with HDMI. There's several paragraphs of it. Or do you need...

Oh dear god, (faceplam moment), it's right there, I quoted the bit of his post where he said exactly what he wanted. It's up to you what you want to believe. I can't speak for others here, but I can see when someone should concede that the point of debate is lost and move on. You're clinging...

While it may not be ideal, I did think about suggesting an indoor aerial. Had I not written War and Peace for @nabby68 to wade through then I might even have suggested it in the post. As it is, and human nature being what it is, folk tend to switch off once they hear or read that the answer is...

Small point of order, but in actual fact he did. It's in post #8 The key part of this is 'from the aerial socket'. Given that in the first post he has talked about a room with an aerial socket on one wall and a TV on the other then he's not referring to the aerial socket of some PVR or set top...

The problem (if you want to call it that) is the Broadcasting and Telegraphy Act. There maybe a more up-to-date version of this, but in a nutshell it's the bit of legislation that prevents you from losing your TV reception if your neighbour did what you're planning. The Act makes it illegal to...