At YouTube, we aspire to stream cat videos to everything that has a screen, including the largest of them all: TVs in your living room. Despite being devices engineered to be video playback powerhouses, it is unexpectedly difficult to make videos play consistently and smoothly on them. From the lens of a player engineer, I will take you on a shallow dive through the TV media stack, and we will explore different ways a playback can get tripped on those large screens. This talk was presented at Demuxed 2024, a conference by and for engineers working in video. Every year we host a conference with lots of great new talks like this in San Francisco. Learn more at https://demuxed.com