kyounge1956
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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I've moved in with my mom while my house is being repaired and put on the market. There is broadband internet here from Comcast (with a home computer network including wireless), plus cable TV, plus a Roku box that was a gift from my brother a few years back. My mom is out of town at a granddaughter's graduation, and my niece was here to stay with me earlier this week. (My mom arranged this trip before I had my surgery, and I was really worried I wouldn't be fit to be by myself for ten days. Fortunately, I wasn't nearly as wiped out as I feared I would be.) Anyway, my niece got the Roku going and set up a one-week trial subscription to Hulu Plus, so we could watch Downton Abbey. She's gone back home and now I can't get the TV to come on at all. I talked to my mom on the phone today and she says sometimes she can't get it to work either.
I haven't watched network TV regularly in years, and haven't ever subscribed to cable, but I do like to get audiobooks and DVD's from the library or rent movies and watch them. At my house, I used the internal drive in my computer to play both DVDs and audiobook CD's. In my next house, I'd like to have broadband internet for web surfing (a mere month of free access to high speed internet has forever spoiled me for dial-up), and (gasp) maybe even buy or rent movies from I-tunes. It occurs to me that now I've got broadband, I can also get e-books from the library.
I feel really stupid when I can't figure out how to turn the TV on and off! I'm wondering what sort of setup I can do in my next house that won't be so complicated it's a recurring source of frustration rather than a pleasure. I could just keep using my computer for all that, but having a bigger screen for watching movies would be nice. Just now I got a nebulous idea of a [wall mounted?] screen, bigger than any computer monitor I know of, for movies and internet at home [using a wireless keyboard?], plus an I-pad for use elsewhere, including use on my occasional trips for stuff like genealogical research or showing cats. Is there a simple way to do that?
I haven't watched network TV regularly in years, and haven't ever subscribed to cable, but I do like to get audiobooks and DVD's from the library or rent movies and watch them. At my house, I used the internal drive in my computer to play both DVDs and audiobook CD's. In my next house, I'd like to have broadband internet for web surfing (a mere month of free access to high speed internet has forever spoiled me for dial-up), and (gasp) maybe even buy or rent movies from I-tunes. It occurs to me that now I've got broadband, I can also get e-books from the library.
I feel really stupid when I can't figure out how to turn the TV on and off! I'm wondering what sort of setup I can do in my next house that won't be so complicated it's a recurring source of frustration rather than a pleasure. I could just keep using my computer for all that, but having a bigger screen for watching movies would be nice. Just now I got a nebulous idea of a [wall mounted?] screen, bigger than any computer monitor I know of, for movies and internet at home [using a wireless keyboard?], plus an I-pad for use elsewhere, including use on my occasional trips for stuff like genealogical research or showing cats. Is there a simple way to do that?