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Our TV is connected to the internet now

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Earlier this week we hooked our new Plasma HDTV up to our router using a LAN connector. My laptop computer that was on at the time automatically picked up on the new device.

Cool … now I can do things like watch YouTube videos on the TV instead of my laptop or when I take new pictures and upload them to my computer I can set them up so that I can see them in a slide show on my TV.

I’m loving this!

I still have to explore all of the things I can do now that our TV has an internet connection but it’s kind of neat. It would probably be even cooler if I had Windows 7 on my computer, but it seems to work well enough with Windows XP.

Do you have your HDTV connected to the internet either wirelessly or via a LAN cable like we do? If you do … do you use it to view things on the internet?

Spectacle with Elvis Costello

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Have you ever watched the show “Spectacle with Elvis Costello”? A new season just started last Saturday and my husband and I just getting around to watching the first episode. Yes we taped it.

My husband is a musician so watching a program with musicians improvising and jamming together can be slow going as my husband stops and starts the program or even watches some sections in slow motion so he can see what they’re doing on the guitar. LOL Anything to learn more ! Even though he’s an excellent guitarist in his own right.

He also stops the program to write down musicians names or names of songs that we’ve just heard for the first time so he can try to find it on the internet and perhaps write about the artist on one of his guitar blogs.

I enjoy the show but I’d sure love to watch one from start to finish without stopping and starting every few minutes! LOL

Any suggestions for hooking up our Wii to our new thin plasma TV?

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We got a new plasma TV last weekend and after spending a few hours hooking up our DVD player, DVD recorder, cable box PVR, cd player and home theater we found that we were at a loss as to how to hook up our Wii to the new TV.

Our TV only has one component/composite hookup on the back! My husband somehow piggy backed the DVD player and DVD recorder and hooked them up to the home theater system and then the home theater system has component plugs that go to the TV.

But how are we going to hook up the Wii? We tried plugging it into a few of the open spaces in the back of the home theater system and in a few cases we either got a picture or the Wii sound and once both – but the picture quality was horrendous.

Right now the only way that I can think of to use our Wii is to unhook the current component cables that are in the back of the TV (as Samsung PN50B850) whenever I want to use the Wii. That’s going to suck! Plus if I don’t start working out with my Wii again I might have to start looking for fat loss supplements. LOL

Anyone have any ideas as to how we can hook up our Wii to our mostly HDMI one Component to the back of our Home theater system successfully?

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