In a recent column, we wondered why people buy 3D TVs when there’s hardly any programming for them. But a reader told us they have better pictures.
We looked into that a
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Vizio TV is offering a 70-inch TV to the person who submits the best video or photo with an essay on why they are their mom’s biggest fan. The deadline is April 30. To enter, go to Vizio.com/mom.
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We put our small TV on a shelf above a treadmill– gotta crank out those miles — leaving us without a TV for comfortable watching. So we went on a quest for a new “smart TV” that wouldn’t make us feel dumb.
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Online TV is on. Amazon.com has announced six new pilot programs, leading off with “Alpha House,” starring John Goodman. It was created by Gary Trudeau, the creator of the Doonesbury comic strip. Alpha House is about four senators who rent a house together. Viewers will get to vote on whether this program or one of the five others becomes a full series.
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iSpot.TV has over 15,000 commercials you can watch till you drop. You don’t have to buy anything.
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Americans watch the most online videos but haven’t been buying Internet-connected TVs. According to NPD Display Search, only about 20 percent of TVs shipped in North America connect to the Internet. Ours doesn’t either, so we bought a Google box, which lets us watch PBS extras and plenty of other shows. It costs $150. If you feel like going big-time, LG sells an $1100 model that responds to voice commands: if you want the History Channel, you just say so.
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Get ready to donate your Roku box. Roku’s “streaming stick,” for $99 will be out sometime in October. Stick it in the back of a TV, and it will let you stream 600 channels, 75 percent of them free. Roku has Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon Instant Video, Pandora music and Vudu’s “Pay per View” movies, among many choices. The tough part is that you will need a TV that has a “Mobile High-Definition Link” or “MHL” on the back. There will be 50 kinds of MHL TVs by the end of the year. For older sets, there will probably be adapters.
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Last year, 1.5 million Americans used antennas to get free over-the-air TV programs, according to Nielsen Research. We decided to try it ourselves. We tested a TiVo box for recording shows with an antenna from Antennas Direct. This is like a pumped-up set of rabbit ears.
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We get a lot of appeals from Kickstarter.com, the website that uses crowd-funding to help start a business. The idea is that even a $1 contribution can give you a good feeling, while larger amounts earn various souvenirs.
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“Cutting the cord” these days means waving bye-bye to your monthly cable bill. But it depends on how much you like convenience, local sports, skipping commercials, and a few other things.
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