Audio and Video out of Synch?

We get many questions about audio synch problems. Watching lips move and hearing the words a second or two later is really distracting. For sure there are times when the problem is caused at the broadcaster’s facility. Many times however the problem is in your TV set, or more often, in the cable set top box.

The next time you have this problem, try turning off the cable box for a few seconds and then turning it back on. I know first hand that at my house this often fixes the problem. If you are not on cable, you can do the same thing with your TV set.

I am not sure of the reason. It may be that there is a an audio buffer that gets overloaded in the cable box or TV and turning it off empties the buffer.
No matter, it works