OK, this is the part I don't get about this whole "connected" TV thing, including connected Blu-Rays, etc. Do that many people really have ethernet running into their living room? I suppose that most people with a house have their modem in an office or room other than their main TV viewing area, like a den or family room. I don't ever see people's computers in the same room as their TV's unless they are living in an apartment or a dorm. People with houses would have to run ethernet from one room to another and I never knew this was something folks did in great enough numbers to make all of this "connectedness" viable. (that "in great enough numbers* being the operative point here).
This seems even more odd since most people who have networks in their house have wireless networks. Are they running both a wireless router AND running ethernet around their house? What am I missing?
What is frustrating, of course, is that I have I have cable internet, so all that internet goodness is right there in the cable going into the TV system, so all it would take is a modem there to have instant connection, rather than hooking up through a network (wireless or ethernet) from a router in another room.
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OK, this is the part I don't get about this whole "connected" TV thing, including connected Blu-Rays, etc. Do that many people really have ethernet running into their living room? I suppose that most people with a house have their modem in an office or room other than their main TV viewing area, like a den or family room. I don't ever see people's computers in the same room as their TV's unless they are living in an apartment or a dorm. People with houses would have to run ethernet from one room to another and I never knew this was something folks did in great enough numbers to make all of this "connectedness" viable. (that "in great enough numbers* being the operative point here).
This seems even more odd since most people who have networks in their house have wireless networks. Are they running both a wireless router AND running ethernet around their house? What am I missing?
What is frustrating, of course, is that I have I have cable internet, so all that internet goodness is right there in the cable going into the TV system, so all it would take is a modem there to have instant connection, rather than hooking up through a network (wireless or ethernet) from a router in another room.