[mythtv-users] Smart TV hacks

[Andrew]

On 04/29/2017 03:13 PM, airdrummer wrote:
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> Andrew wrote:
>> "Dumb TV's" are called monitors.
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> vizio's latest smart tvs r "tuner-free" making them monitors...

Perhaps the expansion of proprietary and encrypted cable TV systems 
requiring crufty external tuners, and cord-cutting network streaming 
video services will render OTA tuners into a niche?  I had not 
considered that; it seems that a lot of people don't really understand 
OTA TV any more.  When I tried to explain my separate high gain UHF and 
VHF antennas to one of my contractors, he was amazed at the concept of 
"free TV" but then lost interest when he found out that he could not get 
free ESPN.  I had a date with a local TV station program editor and she 
did not understand the timing of our local ATSC transition.  It makes me 
feel so old when I think of my trusty Samsung SIR-T165 ATSC tuner, long 
since packed away.  I had high hopes of getting something out of the 
Firewire interface.

Andrew