Interesting question that came up yesterday about Monitors.

@DocAndersen (54413)
United States
March 9, 2019 8:32am CST
Do you still have a directly connected monitor at home? Or, in fairness is your monitor actually also a TV? Do you use Chromecast or do you use a cable? It is an interesting question, I am interested in what people are doing!
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• United States
9 Mar 19
I use a laptop, however, two of the computers in the house have a television as the monitor. I use the firestick from amazon, but we do have cable here as well. I pay for the subscription services, someone else pays for the cable.
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@DocAndersen (54413)
• United States
10 Mar 19
Amazon has done a good job with the FireSTick. We have one in our bedroom upstairs to watch movies etc!
@DocAndersen (54413)
• United States
10 Mar 19
@KlyliePot The cheapest version of the firestick is US 39 dollars.
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@DocAndersen (54413)
• United States
11 Mar 19
@ScribbledAdNauseum I that is the Fire Stick value prop!
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@moffittjc (118204)
• Gainesville, Florida
9 Mar 19
I use a laptop at home. My TV is a smart TV, so I could use that as my computer screen if I wanted, but most of the time I do not use my computer in the same room as the TV.
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@DocAndersen (54413)
• United States
10 Mar 19
I understand that, smart tv's are nice to have
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@DocAndersen (54413)
• United States
10 Mar 19
@KlyliePot Most TV's sold throughout the world now, are two in one!
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@DocAndersen (54413)
• United States
11 Mar 19
@KlyliePot reasonable US 39 is the lowest I've seen.
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@santuccie (3384)
• United States
25 May 19
My wife and I each have a MacBook Air (laptop), and all other computers are accessed remotely with TeamViewer, AnyDesk, or RemotePC. There are three TVs in the house, including a 55" Sanyo in the living room. The big screen has an HDMI extension cord plugged into input 2, so I can easily connect a device that's sitting nearby. There's also an Actiontec MyWireless TV2, which allows me to connect wirelessly to a device up to 150' away. We also have a few monitors, but none of them are in use at present.
@DocAndersen (54413)
• United States
26 May 19
your house sounds like mine! Have you looked at or consider the AirTame product?
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@santuccie (3384)
• United States
26 May 19
It looks nifty. Not for me, though. I don't like connecting unsecured devices to my internal network. And I only need to stream one device at a time, anyway.
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@DocAndersen (54413)
• United States
27 May 19
@santuccie unsecured is an interesting argument, i suspect you would find there are no secure streaming devices. Just secure networks they sit on.
@louievill (28859)
• Philippines
9 Mar 19
We have a large led T.V. That can also be connected to the computer if we want to watch something from there. I also have several T.V.tuner boxes that could convert any led or lcd monitor into a television.
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@louievill (28859)
• Philippines
10 Mar 19
@DocAndersen i like interchangeable to make things flexible and practical since the house has 4 rooms and of course the living room where the main TV sits., cable line is on all the rooms and the whole house has wifi.
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@DocAndersen (54413)
• United States
11 Mar 19
@louievill that is very important!
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@DocAndersen (54413)
• United States
10 Mar 19
Very cool - sounds like a great setup~
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@FourWalls (61308)
• United States
9 Mar 19
I have a laptop that mirrors to the TV via Apple TV. Usually I only have the TV on when I’m watching DVDs.
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@FourWalls (61308)
• United States
9 Mar 19
@KlyliePot — generally, no. I have a region-free DVD player because I like some old British TV shows that I watched as a kid, and they’re only on DVD in other countries.
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@DocAndersen (54413)
• United States
10 Mar 19
I understand that!
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@theend (2778)
• Gifu, Japan
13 Mar 19
We need information directly so there is no shortage of a screen.
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@theend (2778)
• Gifu, Japan
13 Mar 19
@DocAndersen Yes, that's right.
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@DocAndersen (54413)
• United States
13 Mar 19
Always interesting, the value of information is extremely high~!
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