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How many people in your house know how to operate your (presumably non-smart) AV system, with its receiver and four different remotes? When someone new comes ov
by stickfigure 8y ago
How many people in your house know how to operate your (presumably non-smart) AV system, with its receiver and four different remotes? When someone new comes over, how long would it take them to figure out how to watch a movie?
- mike00632 8y agoWoah, that is a right. I'm thinking now of such common phrases when you visit someone's house: "Can you turn on the TV?", "How do you change the volume?", "Which remote do I use?". Recently my sister's response was, "Actually, you use the X-box controller." What a future we live in.
- HeyLaughingBoy 8y agoPsst! They make XBox controllers that look just like a "regular" remote.
- pjc50 8y agoThere's a TV remote and a satellite remote. Press the "Netflix" button on the TV remote. (Having said that, I failed to watch a DVD at the weekend; the Xbox wouldn't play it as it was region locked, then I realised that I'd not hooked up the DVD player in the six months since buying the television, and it flaked out trying to play on my laptop.) None of this makes me think that a "home automation" system will be any more convenient or reliable. I've only just made my peace with the "smart TV". I wanted a dumb TV, but will admit that the smartness has mostly delivered. It even seems to have HDMI-CEC that works with the satellite box from a different manufacturer. It still occasionally nags about updates or informs me that something it shipped with no longer works or requires a new EULA. I have dealt with the complexity of "AV recievers", whatever they are exactly, by not knowing why I might need one and not having one. The one feature I may end up building is the ability to listen to the TV in the kitchen, which I may do by running thirty feet of wire.