firmware update

If your Bravia started throwing a black screen at Dolby Vision playback back in July, there is a newer build out and it is worth grabbing, with a caveat you should know before you get your hopes up. The one that caused the mess is 114.602.080.1, pushed to a spread of Sony sets around the end of...

Consolidating four apps into one is the sort of thing you should be able to cheer for without thinking about it, and I cannot quite get there. Word is JBL is quietly moving its Bluetooth speakers onto a single app, which raises the obvious question about the Portable app and everything currently...

Worth reading even if you never owned one, because the pattern applies to every box under your TV. Spotify stopped making Car Thing in July 2022, five months after it went on general sale in the US at 89.99 dollars, and took a 31 million euro charge doing it. Then on December 9, 2024 it remotely...

Linn pushed Davaar 118 out and it adds native Amazon Music and Presto Music to DSM players on the newer ARM-Linux platform, starting from the Selekt DSM generation. Both show up inside the Linn app, so there is no AirPlay leg, no Bluetooth hop, no second streamer parked in the chain. Amazon...

Tom Parsons at What Hi-Fi wrote this up on 15 August and it's a familiar kind of misery. His Bravia 8 II OLED took a firmware update and now anything played through an external source, an Apple TV 4K or a Sky Stream puck, drops audio when routed to his external sound system. The TV's own apps...

Dolby has confirmed that existing Ultra HD Blu-ray players can potentially handle Dolby Vision 2 without a new optical drive or a redesigned player. Most of the new processing lives inside the television. The player's job is to recognise the signal, format it correctly and push it and its...

What Hi-Fi ran a piece where one of their writers admitted he had been wrong about automatic firmware updates. He spent weeks chasing audio dropouts, swapped cables, went through settings, and it turned out to be the most recent update on his Bravia 8 II. The failure only appears when an...

First proper hands-on account of Dolby Vision 2 running on a shipping Hisense UR9 is out, and the useful takeaway is not the headline features. Authentic Motion sits greyed out in the menu. Precision Black is waiting too. Both need content mastered with the extra DV2 metadata, and that content...

A What Hi-Fi writer just went public with the argument we have all had here for years: he let his Bravia 8 II take an automatic firmware update and now half his system is out of action. The symptom is oddly specific. Anything arriving through an external source, his Apple TV 4K or a Sky Stream...