Wow at Technology

[elusivek]

After all the Christmas shopping, I thought I would be done spending money for a while.

Then something happened to some of the TV channels. We still plug the TV onto the aerial antenna thing, but apparently now there are "analogue" channels and "digital channels". I'm slightly technology savvy but that just goes over my head.

Anyway, most of our TVs are capable of the "digital channels". But my Parent's TV don't. Dad was bemoaning the loss of his movie channels.

So I went and bought a new Apple TV. I relocated my old existing one to the parent's room, and am using the new one. Not that I'm hogging the new stuff, it's just that the new one has so many functions, that would all go over my parents' heads. Heck, even I don't understand why the new Apple TV needs to have half those functions.

But one thing I am very impressed with the new Apple TV (4K i think), is the remote. I simply use the Apple TV's remote, and I can control the sound levels. Heck, if I switch on the Apple TV, the actual TV comes on as well, same as switching off. Again, I don't know why that is this way, I'm just assuming the HDMI cable somehow can control that as well? It's interesting.

Admittedly, now with the new Apple TV, I've got it playing stuff constantly (which is good. I've been wasting my Netflix subscription for a long long time. Hopefully, after all the Christmas craze is over, Dad has time to learn how to use the Apple TV in his room, and he can play all the movies, all the shows he wants to watch (or not, just play stuff, use up that subscription time!).

He had been complaining that the HBO type movie channel has been playing over and over the same movies. Heck, I don't watch those channels, but even I know it's been playing Taken/2/3 over and over again.

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[hermitsmurf.livejournal.com]

My dad just bought a new tv and it connects to the internet and man he is struggling to figure out how to use it.