Mid-December is already here! Wow this month has gone fast.<\/p>\n
Weather has been up and down, very cold, very warm and in-between up and down.<\/p>\n
The Highlight of the Month is: We got a 4K Sony Bravia TV last week. I love it. It’s a 65X850C, plenty of HDMI inputs and also got an HT-NT3 to go with it, which adds even more inputs to the setup.<\/p>\n
Android TV is really good, not totally though, since so many OK Google commands don’t work on Android TV. There isn’t a good list of them one can find on Android TV, though on another device it’s easy enough to get to a page online that has the basic outline of how to pose queries, suggestions of what to say.<\/p>\n
There’s not a real browser in Android TV native. You can download both Chrome and Opera from the Play Store for Android TV. Neither work well without a Mouse connected. I have an old bluetooth mouse that does work but left click is nothing, and right click works as left click on Android TV.<\/p>\n
Functionally there is no audio searching while using the browser, and every so often I did get browser tiles I could click on from my browsing history from Home Screen searching … but not consistently.<\/p>\n
This is like the old days, when phones needed good shortcut pages to get around the web … making a tiny resolution links page on your own site was a really good thing, or making one for PSP, for instance.<\/p>\n
Now I need to make a lovely resolution links page for Android TV. \u00a0Rolleyes.<\/p>\n
The other thing then, this site, the main page, is a plain landing page, with graphics at the top and I never fully engaged anything much, so it’s pretty blah, but the graphics, at any rate, taxed others systems for years, and now, they load lightning fast for anything I use, but wow, don’t they look AWFUL in the Chrome browser on Android TV!<\/p>\n
Nice thing I did in the Android TV Chrome browser was to look at this blog and update it, and change my theme to 2016, and colors, etc. I got an error when trying to crop any photo for a header. It worked but errored out when actually trying to crop.<\/p>\n
The 2015 4K TV’s are DirecTV Ready. But not ready for DirecTV RVU. Why? Because no one really knows. DirecTV was told what TV we just got, and they sent a guy out to set RVU up. Wow. Why? They know yet don’t know it doesn’t work, and they put it all on Sony.<\/p>\n
No one can get word from Sony about updating RVU to work. When will the update come? When? Since May 2015 others have wanted to know, I joined in last week.<\/p>\n
Besides that snafu, the TV is good and I love it. Vudu and Netflix and voice search.<\/p>\n
Show me pictures of [Say Place, Thing, Person, Year, Season, Month, Color, etc.]<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n …is probably my favorite command. Unfortunately the cute things you can say on your phone and get snappy or sarcastic or lowbrow humour replies don’t work on Android TV.<\/p>\n I’m hoping the RVU will update before the end of the year. Since it hasn’t happened yet all year, I guess there’s a slim chance it will before 2015 comes to a close.<\/p>\n I’m looking forward to how much better the 850C will be once RVU shows a ready face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mid-December is already here! Wow this month has gone fast. Weather has been up and down, very cold, very warm and in-between up and down. The Highlight of the Month is: We got a 4K Sony Bravia TV last week. I love it. 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