Good afternoon.
We're in the process of, among other things, cutting the cable cord for television. We have a Fire stick, and accounts with Prime Video and Netflix. Wednesday, we dumped AT&T for our cell service, and went with T Mobile. T Mobile offers a 55+ service, with unlimited talk, text, data, and they will pay our Netflix bill, for $90 a month for two lines, including fees and tax.
In the process, we're going to turn off our DirecTV service, and use internet shows and an antenna for over the air broadcasts. The main TV in the living room is a smart TV, so it should be a simple thing to add the apps for the various sources, right? Wrong. LG only has a handful of apps available, and the only two that are supported are Netflix and Prime Video. While both of those are good things, there are another dozen sources we want to use to stream programming. My initial solution was to use the Fire Stick from the bedroom TV. That would have worked, except the living room TV doesn't have enough HDMI connections for this. I went to our local big box electronics store, prepared to suck it up and get a new TV with enough HDMI connections, but lo and behold, they offer an HDMI selector, which I can connect up to 4 devices into, and it will output that device though the single HDMI connection available. So, instead of paying $359 for a new TV, I paid $26.99 for the selector, which is currently connected to everything, and functioning as expected. I'm excited about not having to spend $$$ to save $$$ for once.
My O MY -- You've been a busy boy. I would like to get away from Direct TV as well, but I want it for the RV.
Do you have any suggestions of a replacement for that?
I could go with DISH and then just have the option of an on/off switch when not being used, but that would require probably buying another antenna and receiver- I don't know?
Meanwhile, I am going to study what you did very carefully!