RonBoyd
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Streaming is clunky?!? I found cable TV terribly clunky and streaming a delightfully elegant alternative in addition to costing way less.
I agree. Our HTPC is, truth be told, quite complicated. Everything (well as much as possible) is run through a Yamaha RX-3080 AVR (which is slightly past my abilities to operate) and broadcast as 9.2 Surround Sound. I am, in the process (as I get time) programming a (Universal Remote Control) URC-450 (again a little past my ability). So currently it requires the use of four remote controls to operate everything.
Anyway, I have in the past two days been showing DW how to operate this setup. She has had no experience in this area including simple TV operation during the past thirty years. (Yeah, I am in charge of the AV but, please, don't apply any misogynist thoughts to that.)
She has had no problem with understanding or applying everything I have told her.
Admittedly, I have no experience with Cable/Satellite TV so my opinion on this matter can easily be discounted. On the other hand, I have extensive experience with streaming and have found it neither clunky nor inelegant.
(I am unsure how to mention this but, in our system, just the TV (Vizio PQ65) and the AVR cost over $4,000 - I am scared to compute the cost of the speakers. So it is not that I am looking to find the cheapest way out.. only the least user input.)