Note: this is not a request for troubleshooting help.

For the past few years my 10ish year old “smart” TV will maybe once a week or so completely lose the ability to play sound in the Youtube app, and only in the Youtube app. Sound works just fine everywhere else. Bizarrely this is always triggered by an ad and never a video. Restarting the app doesn’t fix it, and neither does clearing the cache. Fortunately doing a full restart of the TV fixes it, it’s just irritating to have to restart because an ad somehow broke the sound.

What technological gremlins haunt you?

  • Brewchin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    8 months ago

    My 9 year old LG smart TV (WebOS, but never connected to the network) will occasionally “overlay” RGB colour artifacts over the entire screen. There’s no pattern of time, day, on duration, HDMI source, etc.

    It just occasionally happens, probably once every month or two. Putting it into standby and back on again fixes it every time. 🤷🏻‍♂️

    • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world
      14·
      8 months ago

      Small world. My 47LM8600 LG TV (which is 3D, from 2015!) occasionally fails to pop up its pop up menu when asked, the one that has the input list and so forth in it. Instead it shows a vague error about “memory problem” and prompts the user to factory reset the TV.

      Turning it fully off and back on again fixes it, and the issue won’t reoccur for usually several months.

      • rufus@discuss.tchncs.de
        7·
        8 months ago

        Wow. Nice group of people with old LG WebOS TVs! I have an 42LBsomething with 3D. Works fine. Sometimes the YouTube App crashes because it’s out of memory. But nowadays with all the ADs it’s barely usable anyways.