@stevebedwards wrote:
Hi,
My Samsung TV which is linked to my V6 box has started to drop out to a black screen on a regular basis
When I had my "sound cut out" problem on my new Samsung TV (not a 4K) in the summer, my first thought was to VM to get the V6 fixed. Which didn't fix anything - so I went onto the Samsung forums (UK & US) where there are literally dozens of posts from people experiencing all sorts of sound and picture issues with their new TV's connecting to their favourite cable TV "box". Long story short... I contacted Samsung UK support who said “one of our representatives can remotely access your TV to perform the HDMI EDID rewriting before establishing the connection with the V6 box and the other HDMI-supported external devices". Problem solved. 
So take a look in their forums and see if anyone has had the same issue and solved it.
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