TVs & Streaming

Which platform is your TCL running? Look at the home screen rather than the model number: What you see Platform Purple background, grid of channel…

LG calls it a software update rather than a firmware update, which is why people end up searching for both. It is the same thing…

Which platform is your Hisense running? You do not need the model number for this — just look at the home screen when the TV…

Samsung calls it a software update rather than firmware, but it is the same thing — the platform the whole TV runs on. That naming…

Plenty of pages promise a way to switch system updates off. Most of them are describing router-level blocking without saying so, or methods that need…

Most manufacturers simply stop shipping firmware and never say a word. Amazon does not, which makes this one of the few devices where you can…

Vizio is the brand where online instructions most often fail to match what is on the reader’s screen, because the menus changed substantially between TV…

Method 1 — update over Wi-Fi This is what almost everyone needs. Leave the TV on and plugged in throughout. Expect five to fifteen minutes…

Step by step Before you start: leave the stick plugged into power for the whole process, and stay on Wi-Fi. It is a small download,…