On January 6, 2017 at 10:12, Fins said...
I understand the need for the media player with a tv like this. You have to have somewhere for connections and speakers to go. But, at the very least, figure out how to make the connecting cable safe to run in the wall, and make it long enough, or customizable, for a real install.
Welllll...
Just yesterday I had a buddy call me and asked me to hang a TV for him. He's a bit of a techie himself, so he had already bought the TV and knew what he wanted.
It's a 48" TCL TV he got off Amazon for a few hundred bucks. I'm thinking, OK, whatever, never heard of it. "It's got Roku built into it", he says.
So I ask him if he'd like it hardwired or it we was going to rely on Wi-Fi, which I (the professional!), told him I did NOT recommend. He said, "Well, it doesn't have a LAN port, sooo...". And he was right. Hang TV. Plug in. Connect to WiFi. Sign in to Netflix, Amazon, whatever. Done.
No, it wasn't 4k, nor was it the best picture I'd seen...but the ONLY thing I plugged in was power. It had HDMI ports, but he didn't even have anything to plug into them. Everything he wanted was IN the TV.
