ARC carries audio. CEC carries control. They travel over the same cable and do different jobs, and confusing…
Austin Murphy
•
August 25, 2026
•
6 min readCable marketing sells certainty, and HDMI is the category where that works best because nobody wants to buy…
Austin Murphy
•
•
6 min readSpare TV legs turn up for a predictable reason: someone wall-mounts a set and the stand it came…
Austin Murphy
•
•
6 min readUniversal TV legs solve a specific problem, which is a television with no legs and no wall mount.…
Austin Murphy
•
•
8 min readA right-angle adapter turns an HDMI cable through ninety degrees at the port, so the cable runs along…
Austin Murphy
•
•
8 min readPhysically, most tables will hold a television. The question is whether the surface is deep enough, stable enough,…
Austin Murphy
•
•
6 min readThe rule most people half-remember is that the center of the screen should sit at eye level when…
Austin Murphy
•
•
7 min readUniversal remotes solved a problem that has largely gone away. A living room in 2010 might have had…
Austin Murphy
•
•
6 min readA soundbar sitting in front of a television can sit directly in the path between your remote and…
Austin Murphy
•
•
6 min readAlmost every soundbar sold now supports HDMI ARC, which makes it a poor filter on its own. Searching…
Austin Murphy
•
•
8 min read
