Yesterday, ye gods...
Inlaw Paw's bedroom TV has HDMI sockets but refuses to accept input from perfectly fine DVD player & HDMI cable. After wasting a hour trying out Stuff:
1. set up old laptop with Ubuntu, shoved a DVD in. It opens, great! Shows the files but won't play them: "Format error". But DVD is fine.
2. set up 2nd old XP laptop - had to restore system to get it to boot in less than 20 minutes. Shoved in DVD: it plays!!!! But audio is kaput.
3. set up missus's old Mac. Surprise, surprise, when she moved back to a PC
n years ago she didn't take the batteries out of the KB or mouse. Mouse OK, batteries in KB needed Delicate Persuasion
® so now even with brave new ones it's kaput. So I sacrificed the USB KB from my Pi
and went through the recognition rigmarole.
And it works. The IP is content.
I want a new keyboard.