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Re:Kids in ‘Netflix Only’ Homes Saved from 230 Hours of Comm... by macintux on Friday December 22, 2017 @04:39PM (#15991142)
When the digital transition took place, my TV sat idle for about a year until a line of severe storms rolled through and I decided making it usable again made some sense.

Went out, bought a nice directional antenna, bought a converter box from a friend, turned it on.

5 minutes later I realized I had zero tolerance for ads shouting at me, boxed everything up, and eventually took the TV to recycling. (It also nearly put me in the hospital, big CRTs are big.)

My iPad and Netflix/iTunes are all I need. Someday maybe I'll get a 13" iPad Pro and stick it on a wall, but I doubt it.

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Re:Kids in ‘Netflix Only’ Homes Saved from 230 Hours of Comm... by xj9 on Friday December 22, 2017 @05:26PM (#15991433)
get a tv, a small computer, plex, and a wireless media keyboard

its amazing

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Re:Kids in ‘Netflix Only’ Homes Saved from 230 Hours of Comm... by ghaff on Friday December 22, 2017 @11:47PM (#15992977)
TV and Plex yes. But, after having tried all sorts of permutations connecting TVs to media servers and controlling them with keyboards, I find that Chromecast plus a tablet and/or a laptop over WiFi is a far better approach to getting content onto a TV.
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