Posted on 04/21/2015 11:55:15 PM PDT by Swordmaker
I have a ginormous Samsung TV that’s not smart. I use it as a ginormous monitor for an Asus tablet and stream stuff via Firefox.
I don’t get why all those bells and whistles on TVs are even necessary.
I also have a wireless keyboard for the tablet so I don’t have to get my badonkadonk off the sofa to surf.
You can still get youtube, or the internet actually, on your tv if you hook a HDMI cord a your laptop.
Hahaha....paper?.....hahaha (PS...I love paper!)
My BluRay player had a warning about this April cutoff a couple of months back. This is also the main scam involved in “cheap” digital programming — pay for it, expect to keep it forever, have everything vanish, and find there is no one to talk to about it. Thanks SM.
It's a pretty limited video medium, though. 
This is the modern, tech version of the reason I have never liked “all-in-one” solutions.
Back when makers began building VCRs into TVs... VCR’s were notoriously unreliable - thus buy an overpriced TV with one built in... and face having a kludge TV with a broken VCR after just a couple of years... not exactly graceful then trying to hook up an external player.
Then they began building DVD players in... same issue.
And all along, computer makers (including Apple) doing the same... the convenience of an “All-In-One”, but with the reality that different components die at different ages - so you may have a great display that cannot be used because the CPU or other components are dead... And repairing the individual components can be cost-prohibative.
The convenience of a “SmartTV”... Except that the TV itself will likely outlast the apps/programs built in, so eventually you either have to just replace the whole thing, despite the working LCD, or figure out an external solution (which you could have done in the first place).
Personally - I prefer components (I’m old-school in that regard - still use component audio gear at home)
What kind of bullcrap is this post? Seriously? Apple collaborating with Google to force folks to buy stuff? Really?
Delusional...
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