On Mon, 16 Dec 2013 05:54:40 -0800, dave
wrote:

On 12/15/2013 06:10 PM, micky wrote:
On Sat, 14 Dec 2013 17:22:16 -0500, "(PeteCresswell)"
wrote:



Anyhow, Just wanted to report a what little I learned. Despite the
one mistake the one clerk seems to have made, maybe it wasn't a
mistake. Maybe even though LG claims to do internet browsing, he
knows it doesn't do it well, becaues of the remote? Even if not,
there's a lot for those guys to learn and they seemed to know quite a
bit. I think 2005 was the last time I'll understand everything I
need to know.


Google doesn't let you browse?

I don't understand. I think some of these devices have google chrome
(but I havennt' checked on the LG DVD recorder, because I think it's
the one (Pete didn't like) but if the remote has as few buttons as
this one, the LG, did, it seems like it will be require picking out
one letter at a time, and with no mouse or mouse substitute. That
would let me goi to a webpage but "browse" the way I use it means to
wander though the web, reading articles and watching video when I see
something I like. Come to think of it, maybe none of these things
smaller than a TV do that.


I had WebTV 14 years ago, it had a keyboard, but was still not the same
experience as surfin' with your face in the monitor.

Sure. I can see that.


BTW, the Vizio remote had many more buttons than the LG and iirc the
Sony, including a touchpad, and what they called a keyboard. It had
all 10 numbers but no letters. It might work like texting, which i
don't like, but it's been my experience the more buttons the better.

I'm wondering, if I wait another year or two, there will be fancier
remotes included with the Sony internet Player or the Vizio. One of
the Amazon raters of Vizio said it was pretty bad out of the box, but
after several upgrades, that I think it did automatically over time,
it was worth 5 starts. Now all those upgrades might happen as soon as
one turns it on.