I must come clean. Part of the reason I haven’t been blogging much over the winter holiday break is well, I got a new toy. I splurged and bought myself a new TV for my room in town. I must say I think I got a pretty good deal on it, so I don’t feel terribly guilty about spending money I don’t really have to spare. Besides, it’s a Smart TV.
When I told Leif he said, “You know that They can use Smart TVs to spy on you.”
“Perhaps,” I said, “But it’s really cool, so I’ll take my chances.”
If you are like me and you never heard of Smart TVs before I purchased mine, allow me to clue you in. So, my Smart TV has WiFi and built in streaming programming. So, all I had to do was plug the power cord into the outlet and Bam! instant access to my Netflix. So to test it out I watched a little of this:
Yup. That’s the Netflix Crackling Fire program. You can play it with or without music. On your Smart TV, without hooking up to your laptop or purchasing a separate streaming device. Cool.
But that’s not all. You can get Hulu (Leif and I watched the entire season 3 of Miranda on, what I like to call, my new Smart TV last Tuesday after dinner, such fun), Crackle and Amazon on your Smart TV, too, as well as news channels, weather and radio. If I had a Facebook or Twitter account I could access that through my Smart TV. You can even surf YouTube. And we did, to watch this video for Yorkshire Tea.
And, there’s many other streaming type apps you can download if the ones that come standard aren’t enough for you. So all in all I’m pretty pleased with my spying Smart TV. I don’t know what They’ll find worth spying on through my Smart TV, unless They get a thrill out of my play lists which include such controversial programming as Star Trek: the Next Generation, Family Ties, and the occasional chick flick romance.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to pry myself away from my fabulous Smart TV and out of my fleecy long johns and into my work clothes. I’ve got to give tours today.
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