One of the promises of the digital revolution is to create increasingly intelligent consumer electronics (CE) devices and systems that can automatically configure themselves, correct errors, and free ...

Home entertainment systems are absolutely loaded with features in this day and age. Some features are meant to make your movies and TV shows look better, like HDMI Enhanced, while others are meant to ...

When anyone in our family wants to watch a movie on our new HDTV, I usually have to help them operate the five remote controls that reside on our coffee table. If this scenario sounds familiar, there ...

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When I cut the cable TV cord nearly eight years ago, juggling multiple remote controls was a necessity. At minimum, you needed one for your television and another for your game console or streaming ...

HDMI-CEC isn't great for everything.

Millions of households with multiple HDMI-connected devices have encountered the same baffling problem: a TV that powers on by itself, a soundbar that hijacks volume controls, or a gaming console that ...

TL;DR: sometimes it's just one misbehaving device throwing the whole system in disarray. A lot of people complain about HDMI CEC not working very well (or at all) for them. (Also known by an absurdly ...