Are the new internet-connected TV’s hybrids? I mean can you watch regular TV AND internet TV on them? Or do you need two TV’s, one for each medium?
(We’re tech stupid in my household, need a new TV and don’t know what to get. The options make my head spin.)
I agree...I am well educated and work in IT, but when the rubber meets the road, it is hard to make a decision!
I have been trying for several years to buy a new television, but I run into two problems:
1.) My wife gives me the go-ahead to research and buy, I spend months doing research, get ready to pull the trigger, and she tells me to hold off for some reason. This I can respect, because if not for her acumen with our finances, I wouldn’t be in a position to buy. But it makes me feel like a yo-yo!
2.) By the time I finish researching, the content of the field has changed, and I feel obligated to begin the process again to look a the new stuff.
3.) Repeat Item #1!
I don’t watch television, per se. I cannot sit through any of the rubbish, American Idol, I Can Dance, Modern Family and so on. And I won’t watch television based news.
But I AM a dedicated cinemaphile! So this has been great watching movies! After I installed the television (only temporarily, to get it in the right place I need the help of an electrician) I tried putting a few disks in to see how they look, and ended up watching the entire movie “Trading Places”...I only meant to look at a minute or two in order to evaluate the quality, and got stuck...:)
We don’t have cable, but we do have Internet, and the television has built in wireless. It was one of the easiest consumer electronics thing to set up I have ever used. It was brilliant.
I also got a little Apple TV thing, because my wife wanted to be able to easily show slideshows and stuff like that directly from our computer. Because we have a mac, that made sense. It was pretty inexpensive, and wireless too.
I just bought our home theater receiver last night (got everything via Amazon, including wires, etc) a Yamaha Yamaha RX-A800 that seemed to have most everything I wanted. I still have to choose a speaker system and a pair of good quality bluetooth headphones (so my brother and I can watch movies without waking up my wife...:)
Then, I have an electrician coming in to wire things, I am going to mount it above our fireplace, and all of the components will be hidden in a closet with a sliding wooden door, so there will be no wires or components visible.
I bought a Harmony 900 remote that can drive everything without being in line of sight (because THAT REALLY annoys me, having to move your hand around, pointing and clicking until the thing is read)
I convinced my wife to give me a big budget to do it all in...since we won’t be buying for another 15 years or so!