How Smart have you made your current TV?
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How smart have you enabled your tv to become? Im not talking about buying a new smart tv, but oldish ones with added boxes including how you have plugged it all up to become smarter.
Old Panasonic CRT TX-28DK2 connected to;
Virgin box - scart (rear)
DVD player - scart (rear)
Free sat - RCA (on front of tv)
HP dc7700, Core 2 Duo 1.86 GHz E6300 , Windows 7, 80gb hard drive, 4 gb ram, 1gb graphics card - connected with Logitech wireless mouse and keyboard + 2 sets of phillips ambilight kits. 10mb internet. Connected to the TV by S-video at front of tv
The sound from all of the equipment runs into a denon surround amp kef Qs at the front and canon surrounds at the rear, bass guitar amp being used as the sub..
Only problem is when you want to switch between freesat and the PC you have to take one out and plug the other one in..
Other then that old to smart.
Your turn?
How smart have you enabled your tv to become? Im not talking about buying a new smart tv, but oldish ones with added boxes including how you have plugged it all up to become smarter.
Old Panasonic CRT TX-28DK2 connected to;
Virgin box - scart (rear)
DVD player - scart (rear)
Free sat - RCA (on front of tv)
HP dc7700, Core 2 Duo 1.86 GHz E6300 , Windows 7, 80gb hard drive, 4 gb ram, 1gb graphics card - connected with Logitech wireless mouse and keyboard + 2 sets of phillips ambilight kits. 10mb internet. Connected to the TV by S-video at front of tv
The sound from all of the equipment runs into a denon surround amp kef Qs at the front and canon surrounds at the rear, bass guitar amp being used as the sub..
Only problem is when you want to switch between freesat and the PC you have to take one out and plug the other one in..
Other then that old to smart.
Your turn?
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The blu ray is also 5.1 surround sound, it also has USB input so I have played several films through that and it gives good surround from a avi file. Not much available on the smart front though, does iplayer and youtube the rest is a bunch of pay movie channels.
Thinking about getting an Android MK808 dual core plug in stick.
Anything else I'd use the lappy or the desktop.
I've got an HP Pavillion HTPC plugged into my LG42" LED and in conjunction with a NAS that pretty much covers everything I need.
oK then ... what Dadioflex says..then the topic has sort of changed.. not completely.. but yeah...
But with an old crt and a very limited budget and everything bought as you have seen it at random or ebay or where cash converters has got the price completely wrong...fits into the equation..as not everyone has the money top just get one system.. but i understand your point
Each tv also has a Revo PC attached to it for internet stuff and general PC use. The Revo attached to the main tv has a blu ray drive and we get 5.1 sound via optical lead through our old dvd player.
That's all we need really. I'd sometimes quite like to have Sky, but there's usually too much to watch on Freeview to warrant having pay tv. Lovefilm subscription for blu rays and occasional streaming. Napster subscription for music.
If there was one single device that covered all then that would be perfect, but there isn't. What I want on my tv would be different to what you might want.
The Sony Bluray and Sky he gave me most of what I wanted from a smart tv. When the Roku was launched it offered a huge additional amount of content for under £50 so the Roku is used mainly for my online viewing. The Wii is for games and the easily switching of various Netflix regions. The MK802 android stick is more of a hobby. I only just bought it as I could not beleive you could get an android pc running ICS with 1gb ram and 4gb storage for less then £40. I did buy ir remote/keyboard for additional £20. It works very well and still trying out various apps. The mk802 is good to turn tv into smart tv on its own but as you can see all boxes were aquired at different times hence why all connected together. I am a gadget fan and for me, the more the better.
how does the mk802 perform?
can you surf and stream direct from the browser?