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Smart TVs are dumb

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Post by chaostheory »

gonehome wrote: post #85
chaostheory wrote: post #81

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> First you pay extra for the roku with USB The Roku 3 with the USB either is the same price or cheaper compared to an Apple TV, Google TV, and other variants. Before the Roku 3, Roku's were almost half the price of competing products. > First you pay extra for the roku with USB so that you can plug in a hard drive and play local content, but the roku doesn't even support .avi files - in fact it basically supports no…

I don't know if best of the worst is that exciting of a title, but I agree with you. The apple TV has much nicer hardware and better interface, but it's only good if you live in apple's universe and buy things from itunes.

I live in the Apple universe. The problem with Apple TV is that they lack content. If they ever add the long overdue app store for it, I would gladly move over from Roku's platform. btw Roku 3's UI is much better than Roku2's.

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Post by MiguelHudnandez »

tadfisher wrote: post #45
MiguelHudnandez wrote: post #10

One reason to resent the pervasiveness of new technology -- not that it's inherently bad or that we're becoming luddites, but we don't want to deal with each company's separate and probably-shitty implementation of something we can do well on our computers. My refrigerator does not need to tweet. My refrigerator is supposed to keep things cold. That's all I expect from it. I don't want a half-baked inventory manageme…

Most of the GT5 updates are actually for DLC, which is added to the game whether you buy it or not. Some additions have been free, so there are new cars and tracks that you can play; this is not immediately obvious when you play the game for the first time after one year.

Thanks, that is true. I'll look up what has been added. Maybe a track that I'd be interested in or some new challenges.

There's another opportunity for an improvement, though. A simple "what's changed" that we've had with "normal" software updates on our computers for years.

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Post by heywire »

incredimike wrote: post #9
heywire wrote: post #8

I have the 60LM7200 and it is the same way. This and the stupid wii-like remote are the only two bad things I really have to say about this TV. You cannot fully control the TV with a universal remote since a lot of the features require the pointer to select. I've tried every LG code I can find with my Dish Network remote.

Yeah, tell me about it.Have you tried a logitech harmony yet? That'd my next step. Also, I've been using the LG iPhone app to control the pointer & clicking via touchscreen over the network. It does most of what I want, and has a "built-in" input button!

Hmmm, I'll have to check out the iPhone app. I have not tried the Harmony -- very hard to spend that kind of money on a remote that my kids will be throwing around :)
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