A question I get asked a lot on the Northern Beaches and North Shore: if someone’s got Foxtel iQ4 or iQ5, do they actually need a smart TV, or a smarter one, on top of it? My answer is almost always no — the Foxtel box itself now covers practically everything most people want. What […]
TV Advice & Tips
Buying a new TV advice and tips.
That TV Guy has 25+ years experience in TV installations, audio visual equipment setup and wall mounting services. We service Sydney’s Northern Beaches and North Shore suburbs. Contact Peter, your local TV installer and audio visual expert for TV advice and tips before purchasing your next television and audio visual equipment.
Most of the TVs I mount go up without any drama, but every so often a job reminds me why getting it right the first time actually matters. The Story: The 26-Inch TV That Took Years to Fall Years ago, I was called out to a home on the Northern Beaches to mount a new […]
A pattern I see a lot on the Northern Beaches and North Shore: a TV that’s a few years old starts struggling. Apps take ages to open, the whole interface feels sluggish, or the wifi just stops connecting reliably. The picture itself is usually still perfectly fine — it’s the smart features underneath that have […]
When setting up TVs across the Northern Beaches and North Shore, one of the most common questions I get asked is whether it’s worth buying a dedicated streaming box like an Apple TV 4K, or if the built-in apps on a new smart TV — Samsung’s Tizen, LG’s webOS, Sony’s Google TV — are good […]
TV Advice & Tips
OLED vs QLED: Which TV Is Best for Bright, Sun-Filled Rooms on the Northern Beaches or North Shore?
Living on Sydney’s Northern Beaches or North Shore comes with plenty of perks — open-plan living, floor-to-ceiling glass, and an abundance of natural coastal light. But a sun-drenched lounge room presents a real challenge when buying a new TV: glare, reflections, and a washed-out picture if you choose the wrong panel type. How OLED and […]
Walking into a big electronics showroom can genuinely throw off your sense of scale. Screens look enormous lined up under bright lights, and a size that felt “too much” in-store often ends up looking just right once it’s actually on a lounge room wall. In over 25 years installing TVs across the Northern Beaches and […]
Customer Jobs, TV Advice & Tips, TV Installations
Sony Bravia 85″ TV Setup in Newport, Northern Beaches: Fixing a Bose Soundbar That Wouldn’t Sync
TV Wall Mount and Soundbar Problems I Found in Newport Getting the Sony Bravia and Bose Soundbar Working Properly in Northern Beaches Homes I got a call about a Sony Bravia TV setup in Newport after a customer upgraded their old telly to a brand new 85 inch Sony Bravia with a Bose soundbar to […]
Customer Jobs, TV Advice & Tips
New LG TV Install in Killarney Heights, Northern Beaches: Reusing the Original Wall Bracket
Just replaced an 8-year-old LG 65-inch with a brand new one for a customer in Killarney Heights, and it’s a good example of why a TV upgrade doesn’t have to mean starting from scratch. Swapping TVs in Killarney Heights Without Re-Doing the Wall The old TV had been sitting on a flat wall bracket for […]
Customer Jobs, TV Advice & Tips
Recorder Stuck on “Please Wait”? HDD Recorder Replacement in Dee Why, Northern Beaches
If your free-to-air recorder is stuck on “please wait” and won’t move past it, I can save you a call-out — that’s almost always the hard drive dying, not something you can fix by unplugging it and trying again. That’s exactly what had happened to a customer’s recorder in Dee Why. The unit had been […]
TV Advice & Tips
Samsung TV Plus Hijacking Your Startup? Here’s What’s Going On – Mona Vale, Northern Beaches
You turn your Samsung TV on expecting to pick up where you left off — Netflix, Foxtel, whatever you were watching — and instead you’re dumped straight into Samsung TV Plus. Sound familiar? This is exactly what happened with a client in Mona Vale recently. Their Samsung had quietly pushed through an automatic firmware update […]