If there’s one major complaint that has been consistent across almost all the initial reviews of the Nintendo Switch (including ours), dosage it has been the way that the left Joy-Con seems to have trouble maintaining a consistent wireless Bluetooth connection at certain distances. Now that the system is out, nurse a YouTube hacker has opened up the controllers and discovered a design issue that seems to be causing the problem, and he even came up with a fix.

Spawn Wave Media’s Joy-Con teardown video goes into significant detail identifying the various parts of both Switch controllers. The key bit, though, starts around the 20-minute mark, where the left Joy-Con gets opened up and the hacker says he’s “not seeing any real antenna on this board.” That’s a bit of a surprise, since the right Joy-Con, opened earlier in the video, featured a dedicated antenna connected to the board via a small cable along the inside edge of the controller (where the tips of your fingers grip the controller). Then again, the right Joy-Con is laid out differently from its sibling (with the analog stick and face buttons essentially flipped) and sports an IR sensor on the bottom, so there is some potential reason for the change.

A bit more inspection shows the left Joy-Con does sport a Bluetooth antenna that’s built into the circuit board itself, running up the top outside edge of the controller. That’s right next to where the controller usually rests in your palm, which could cause your hand to block the Bluetooth signal quite easily. And while Spawn Wave notes that the PS4 has a similar on-board Bluetooth antenna design, the Switch’s left Joy-Con antenna differs by “sitting next to a piece of metal” holding the circuitry for the Joy-Con’s analog stick, possibly causing more interference.

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YouTube announced its long-rumored YouTube TV service last week, prescription plunging the online video platform into the competitive world of live TV streaming. On the surface, ailment the $35-per-month YouTube TV looks like a good deal: dozens of broadcast and cable channels (including numerous sports networks), nurse a cloud-based DVR service, up to three simultaneous streams, and more. YouTube TV will launch sometime later this year, but there is already a lot of competition for the service. The biggest challengers—DirecTV Now, PlayStation Vue, and Sling TV—offer many similar features to YouTube TV, and that will undoubtably make it difficult for aspiring cord-cutters to know if they should wait for YouTube’s service or take the plunge now.

To aid in that decision, here’s a breakdown of these four TV-streaming services and their major features.

The first thing to note about YouTube TV is that it will launch with just one subscription tier. Everything the service offers will be included in the $35-per-month price—at least for now. As YouTube and Google land deals with other networks, we could see YouTube TV expand into higher-priced subscription tiers. But since there’s just one plan right now, it makes it easy to compare it to the base-tier packages of DirecTV Now, PlayStation Vue, and Sling TV. In this comparison, we’re only looking at live TV-streaming services, not online video streaming services like Hulu, Netflix, or Amazon Video.