[opendtv] Re: One more thought for the mix Re: Smart TVs - No One Uses Smart TV Internet
- From: "TLM" <TLM@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 10:36:31 -0800
I know about Windows Live Mail, Hotmail, Internet TV, etc. But I am still
not clear on how I would use them on my Sony Bravia flat panel without
adding a PC to my living room setup. I guess that is your point?
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From: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Albert Manfredi
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2012 10:28 PM
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Subject: [opendtv] Re: One more thought for the mix Re: Smart TVs - No One
Uses Smart TV Internet
Tom wrote:
> I may be living a weird or uncommon space, but I have a rich
> interconnection between the mobile, the home office, my EMail system
> (and it's 7+ GBytes of Calendar, Contacts, and EMail folders), my
> Internet Favorites, and so on.
> I
> would dearly love to bridge gap between my office upstairs, my mobile,
> and the flat screen and STB/PVR/TV stuff happening in my L.R.. I
> cannot do without all of my workstation Calendar and Contacts
> transparently synchronized to my mobile, so why shouldn't that be
> N-directionally true with the L.R. As well?
I think you're perhaps more ambitious than most. However, the synchronized
e-mail and calendar part is really not so hard, if you use a web-based
service like hotmail. I can't do my work e-mail from a normal home PC,
because that's all walled in, but I can easily use hotmail from down here in
the den, on the TV, and upstairs on the "proper" PC. I'm typing on my TV
now, remote keyboard on my lap.
And with Windows Live Mail, of course, you can very easily use an actual
e-mail client to do hotmail or most others. Don't have to use the more
clumsy web browser method. Super simple setup, too. Live Mail knows ahead of
time how to set up your POP3 and SMTP servers. I guess simply based on the
e-mail address you type in during setup. So synchronized mail and calendar
isn't hard. You know, it's all "in the cloud," as the hype tells us.
Know when I used my PVR most recently? During the Olympics. Because NBC was
not offering them online unless you had an MVPD subscription. I used the
PVR's remote for that. Alternatively, Windows 7 Home Premium comes with a
really nice Windows Media Center, which allows you to record shows in HD.
Navigate with the mouse. You do need a TV receiver card, though.
I guess my point is, there are solutions for most of what you want.
Microsoft and others have figured it out. Cable companies may drag their
heels, but why should consumers care? Ignore them. If you must have that
cable box, just use it as a separate stand-alone nuisance when you must,
then switch to Internet TV for the exploring fun. And why the CE vendors
can't offer this unfettered Internet access, via a no-excuse built-in
browser, is totally beyond me.
Bert
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