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Post subject: Smart TV & The Technology March Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2016 12:42 am |
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As a new home owner back in '78 I was thrilled to have a small color TV in the living room wired up to an antenna on the roof.
Keep moving.
Cable showed up. Computers showed up and I broke my ass to build a cabled 3-site network in my home off a router and modem. Everything had to be programmed to "share" the local network in the house before reaching out to the greater network. I could do it and did it.
Keep moving.
Satellite showed up and so did Wi-Fi that turned cabling into a strange trade.
Keep moving.
Today in 2016? Everybody has a glowing screen that gets stared at constantly while people walk into walls and in front of moving buses.
I still have a sharp cabled three-drop local network at home but the router is on Wi-Fi and talks to "things" in the house. Yesterday I installed a new 40-inch Sony "smart TV" for the wife in the living room. It's not a TV - it's a large tablet without a keyboard. She can putz around the internet with it, play her DVD movies on it or call in a cable-free program or movie via streaming from the router in the den in HD with surround sound.
And I used to be thrilled to see Howdy Doody in B&W on an 8-inch screen in a 200-pound television as a boy (with "snow" on the screen).
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Post subject: Re: Smart TV & The Technology March Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2016 12:43 pm |
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Joined: Tue May 19, 2009 12:44 pm Posts: 3049
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At least we are around to USE the new technology! ![Laughing :lol:](./images/smilies/icon_lol.gif)
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