The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for July 06, 2024

Fair enough, uncle Ted.

With the mouse of a computer you can’t zap but you can scroll.

I’ve had Tivo since they came out, now I don’t have cable or ota. They came out with streaming Tivo which works with Starlink. All my streaming in one place and I can record it. Best ever

In the IT Press this week there was someone who used a old laptop to create a home made smart TV with a remote similar to the remote on my TV (you wave it around and get a mouse like pointer as well as power buttons etc.)

Wireless mice & keyboards work quite well at a distance.

Besides it’s more fun to tie up the tv.

And when he uses a remote he meets his daily exercise goals.

Makes perfect sense to me!

That’s what I love about Turner Classics; no commercials I need to fast forward through.

I mute just about every commercial.

Put your money where your mouse is.

Over 600 channels on TV and really nothing to watch but weather. News is depressing and garbage 99% of rest channels. Most of my home time i spent on computer. Answering Biblical Questions and researching lot of Bible Text to support Answers. Time flies. Love Bible trivia with folks. Uncle Ted is cool like Brutus.

the mouse is considered the remote for the computer… but I’m sure it still won’t be the same. :j

It can’t beat the joy and comfort of watching from a recliner.

I bought a new TV that streams. Pretty much the same as a computer, but with a remote. ;)

I do miss the picture quality of the old plasma TV though.

The computer does have a “remote”. It’s called a “mouse”.

A couple of years ago, I was messing around with the Channels on my Cable System and I accidentally found YouTube! Unfortunately, the picture quality was horrendous. And just recently, I found several “Xumo” Streams that I could add to my “Favorite” Channels. Again unfortunately, I am unable to record from them, like with the “regular” Channels…

gotta find the remote to use it…

Uncle Ted needs to know more about computers. They can be remotely controlled.

Good reason, Uncle Ted.

I like my Bluetooth trackball.

Criterion Channel for Uncle Ted.

Sometimes I have to watch on my computer because, for whatever reason, I can’t turn my TV up loud enough on some of the streaming services. Seems to be common with Roku TVs.

On a side note, Uncle Ted probably WAS the remote when he was growing up so let him enjoy being able to sit and watch for a change.

Tell Uncle Ted he doesn’t need a computer. Your smart TV is essentially a computer and can stream thousands of different movies. Of course you might need to subscribe to every streaming service out there to watch a particular movie

Im impand mega-kudos to Uncle Ted for knowing how to use the remote! I need my 9 and 8 year old granddaughters to show me how to change channels. Which is hard because they live in Florida and we’re in Columbus!

Wasn’t the response I was expecting, but then I prefer to stream shows on my big screen TV over watching on a small screen computer.

I do enjoy old movies, and when I’m away from a screen, I listen to OTR (old time radio). It does seem unfair that I can watch movies from 80 years ago but not 80 years into the future. :)

I have three remotes and pushing all those buttons is confusing at times.

mine does

A smart tv with Youtube and Pluto. I’ve found a bunch of 50 year old british comedies to watch.

Yep, ol’ Ted is old school.

Uncle Ted needs to get a smart TV.

sounds like uncle ted’s not remotely interested in that suggestion…

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