We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember MM saying
something like:

I thought there were these gadgets advertised whereby you could watch
a program anywhere in the house?

Yes, and they're pretty crap most of the time.
I had one, put up with it for a year, but soon got tired of its
idiosyncrasies and replaced it with a run of CT100.