Your 4k tv is lying to you: three menu clicks unlock the picture you paid for

That slick 4K panel in your living room is running at two-thirds speed. While you binge, game and stream, the silicon you bought for peak HDR and 120 fps quietly negotiates down to vanilla 4K 60 Hz because nobody told the set you actually want the good stuff. The fix costs zero euros, takes under two minutes and lives inside a submenu most owners never open.

The port lottery nobody warned you about

Flip the TV around and count the HDMI sockets. One of them—usually HDMI 3 or 4—carries the 48 Gbps fire hose labelled HDMI 2.1. Plug your PlayStation 5 into any other socket and the console politely down-clocks to 18 Gbps, neutering 4K 120 Hz, VRR and ALLM in one handshake. Samsung hides the 2.1 ports under a tiny