psychotoddler
Novice Member
I’ve been searching for threads on this but its hard to describe so I never seem to find the right match. I have 14 month old Samsung Q90R 65” connected to a Samsung Q80R soundbar. To enable Dolby Atmos I have an AppleTV 4K connected through the sound bar with a pass through back to the TV. All cables are rated for 4K ultraHDR (Cable from Apple to sound bar and from sound bar to breakout box from TV. AND
Everthing works great for a while, great picture, great sound, but after about 45 minutes the TV “blinks”—picture goes black, sound plays, and after a second, picture comes back. I can’t tell if the resolution changes. Usually it will play for a while and then recur. Then it blinks out for longer and I will lose sound. Then I get the ”spinning dots” reconnect sign and it reconnects. Very soon it just repeats and is unwatchable. The only thing that fixes it is holding down the power on the remote to the TV until the TV restarts (samsung QLED symbol) and then I can watch for a while.
To some degree this went on since I got the TV but was usually rare and I’d only get the picture blink and no intervention. Lately it‘s more often and at least once an hour. Last few days it’s increasingly more frequent.
I’ve unplugged and replugged all the cables.
It does NOT seem to happen when watching apps on the TV itself, so it must have something to do with the AppleTV, the soundbar, or the connections.
Not sure why it’s becoming more and more frequent.
Everthing works great for a while, great picture, great sound, but after about 45 minutes the TV “blinks”—picture goes black, sound plays, and after a second, picture comes back. I can’t tell if the resolution changes. Usually it will play for a while and then recur. Then it blinks out for longer and I will lose sound. Then I get the ”spinning dots” reconnect sign and it reconnects. Very soon it just repeats and is unwatchable. The only thing that fixes it is holding down the power on the remote to the TV until the TV restarts (samsung QLED symbol) and then I can watch for a while.
To some degree this went on since I got the TV but was usually rare and I’d only get the picture blink and no intervention. Lately it‘s more often and at least once an hour. Last few days it’s increasingly more frequent.
I’ve unplugged and replugged all the cables.
It does NOT seem to happen when watching apps on the TV itself, so it must have something to do with the AppleTV, the soundbar, or the connections.
Not sure why it’s becoming more and more frequent.