Many monitors support audio over HDMI, and they also come with a speaker or an audio port to connect to an external speaker. These speakers show up as HDMI Playback devices. However, if they don ...

Before we talk about the advanced level of troubleshooting, let’s get a few things straight. First, Make sure your HDMI cable is not at fault. You can try it with another computer or another TV.

Using a technology known as ARC (or eARC, depending on your HDMI version) you can simplify cabling and unlock much greater support for uncompressed, lossless audio. That’s not the best solution ...