Hello Jazzmammal

I have been using the blue ray job LG BP620 for two days now and although I get smart TV I don't feel any smarter ...yet. Is smart TV an oxymoron? or is it just moronic? I am not sure.

I have given up both my landline phone and my TV box a year or so ago and feel the better for it though.

Over in the UK we have a site called http://www.tvcatchup.com/. There are probably other similar sites too in your parts.

My studio is at the bottom of my garden and I have an external TV ariel (must have) I simply rigged to a pole and attched to the outer wall. Using this ariel I purchased a hauppage tv stick:

# http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/site/products/data_novatstick.htmlstick


This works well too. This way I have all 'freeview' channels (30 or so out of which ten are good) on my PC in my studio and I have things like UTube on my TV in the house too using the LG.

For an extra $10 you can get a software update for the hauppage which will stream all your TV channels to all your devices, including phones via your WIFI. I haven't done this yet.

Do I want this?

Ah this is the question!

Answer: not really

Yesterday I tried weatching some David Attenborough (aside did you know that David Attenbourogh has no teeth and no detures - just like me) BBC vids on Utube on one of the 'channels' I recommend you get to know what a channel is if you dont already. I found that really in this specific case they were just clips. I switched to Utube's Discovery News and found this was entertaining and mildly informative. I could have surfed the channels for days and days and days - this, is an issue in itself!

Sport seems to be a special case on this terrsetial planet. Over in the UK you almost MUST have a SKY subscription to watch the Premiership. You can get the occasional Footbal game on TV but it's something of a rarity. Other sports such as Morris Dancing are more freely available. You can even participate if you wish.

Anyway - my solution gives you TV in your internet time and Internet on my TV time, now... if only I could also change my habits...

Now back to BIAB where I spend at least four hours a day

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